Today, the Real Estate Section of the Globe and Mail website is featuring an image slide show of a Toronto luxury loft in what the newspaper calls a "1919 Edwardian bakery" (306-183 Dovercourt Road).

This particular section of the recently revamped Globe and Mail website features slide shows of luxury properties. Here are pictures of the bakery loft's interior:

Kitchen
Source: Globe and Mail


Living Room and Stair to Loft
Source: Globe and Mail

Whilst wondering if the centrally located unit with extremely high ceilings still smelled like bakery, I googled the building's address to see what other information I could turn up. According to the Toronto Condominiums website, the 5 storey building is called the "Argyle", as Dovercourt Road is south of Dundas Street West at Argyle Street. It was built in 1873 and once housed a bread factory, not a bakery per se. It was formerly owned and operated by the Ideal Bread company. According to the Toronto's Historical Plaques website, the building was in-use as a bakery until 1957.

Ideal bread Company Factory Building
Source: Toronto's Historical Plaques

It was converted into 86 residential lofts, with 11 being 2-story penthouses with decks, in 2007. It was designated an Ontario Heritage Building a year later. Its architect was Montreal's Sydney Comber who designed the factory building in "Edwardian Classical" style. When it operated as a bread factory, bread wagons were loaded from the ground-level archways on Argyle Street. The factory clock even remains above the front entrance.

At the moment, a 1 bedroom, 1 washroom loft one floor below the one featured in the Globe and Mail (210-183 Dovercourt Road) is listed on My Toronto Condo for $276 500. Condo fees are $245/month.

I don't even want to know what the Globe and Mail featured unit would list for...



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