Balfour Building 1930

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted August, 2011

A 2011 Heritage Toronto plaque is located here on the northeast corner of Spadina Avenue and Adelaide Street West. This is what it says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.646970 -79.395431

Designed with Art Deco ornamentation by architect Benjamin Brown, this building was constructed for the Schiffer-Hillman Clothing Co., and was first occupied by many clothing businesses. Together with the Tower Building across Spadina Avenue (also designed by Brown), it formed a gateway to Toronto's "garment district", which employed many of Toronto's Jewish citizens. The building was named for British statesman Arthur J. Balfour, the author of the 1917 Balfour Declaration pledging British support for a future Jewish homeland in Palestine.

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