The Story of the Stone Distillery in The Distillery District, Downtown Toronto.

The Story of the Stone Distillery in The Distillery District , Downtown Toronto

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The Story of the Stone Distillery in The Distillery District , Downtown Toronto

Introduction

The Stone Distillery Building has gone down the annals of Canadian history as a part of the industrial and architectural heritage of the Distillery District in Canada . At the moment , this magnificent building has been renovated to act as a centre of arts and culture , a culture that dates as far back as the Victorian

ages , at the time of its construction . Located within the parliament vicinity , the Stone Distillery Building has to be the best-preserved 19th century factory complex in the country (Travel and Transitions 2006 . It is important to note here that this building was even spared from demolition during the 1960s , a time when a riotous renewal program was on a high gear in Canada , whose main aim was to demolish a majority of the archaic buildings within the capital center . As such , the Stone Building remained as a distillery for the better part of the 1990s . It was also during this time that the Distillery gained fame as a leading film location in the whole of Canada

Currently , the building has been surrounded by apartments , condos as well as lofts . This has dramatically altered the landscape , which is also today adorned with shops , restaurants , and a live theatre . Somehow the Stone Distillery Building gives Toronto a touch of both the architectural heritage of the...