Empress Hotel
The Empress Hotel was a three-storey red-brick building at the corner of Yonge and Gould streets in downtown Toronto. It was destroyed by fire on January 3, 2011.Photo: William Mewes, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Food court
- Description: Located at the corner of Yonge & Gould streets in Toronto. Destroyed by fire in January 2011. The hotel was opened in 1888, and changed hands multiple times. It ceased operating as a hotel in the mid-1970s.
- Also known as: “Edison Hotel” and “World Food Market”
- Address: 335 Yonge Street, Toronto
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Yonge-Dundas and Yonge Street.
Yonge-Dundas
Photo: Benson Kua, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yonge-Dundas is the very heart of downtown Toronto—in more ways than one. After all, the major arterials of Yonge Street and Dundas Street meet here. The resulting intersection is probably the city's busiest, at least for pedestrians.
Yonge Street
Photo: GTD Aquitaine, Public domain.
Yonge Street is the main street of Toronto, Canada. It divides the city into east and west streets. Numbering for east-west streets begins at Yonge Street and increases in either direction.
The Tenor
Shopping center
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The Tenor is a retail, office and entertainment complex development on the north-east corner of the intersection of Yonge Street and Dundas Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown Toronto and Downtown Yonge.
Downtown Toronto
Quarter
Photo: Maksimsokolov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Downtown Toronto is the main city centre of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located entirely within the district of Old Toronto, it is approximately 16.6 square kilometres in area, bordered by Bloor Street to the northeast, a Canadian Pacific Railway line to the northwest, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don Valley to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west.
Downtown Yonge
Neighborhood
Downtown Yonge is a retail and entertainment district centred on Yonge Street in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Downtown Yonge district is bounded by Richmond Street to the south; Grosvenor and Alexander Streets to the north; Bay Street to the west; and portions of Church Street, Victoria Street, and Bond Street to the east.
Garden District
Neighborhood
Photo: Luke Hollins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Garden District is a neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The name was selected by the Toronto East Downtown Residents Association in recognition of Allan Gardens, an indoor botanical garden located nearby at the intersection of Carlton and Jarvis Streets.
Empress Hotel
- Categories: hotel building and food
- Location: Old Toronto, Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.65733° or 43° 39′ 26″ northLongitude
-79.38095° or 79° 22′ 51″ westOpen location code
87M2MJ49+WJOpenStreetMap ID
way 100105904OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=food_courtOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q5374534
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In Other Languages
“Empress Hotel” goes by many names.
- French: “Hôtel Edison”
- French: “Hôtel Empress”
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