Dominion Public Building
| Dominion Public Building | |
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Interactive map of the Dominion Public Building area | |
| Former names | Toronto Customs House |
General information | |
| Status | Completed |
Architectural style | Beaux-Arts |
| Location | 1 Front Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Current tenants | Government of Canada |
Construction started | 1926 |
Completed | 1935 |
| Owner | Larco Investments |
| Design and construction | |
| Architects | Thomas W. Fuller James Henry Craig |
| Type | government office building |
| History | |
| Built | 1929–1935 |
| Original use | Classified Federal Heritage Building, designated September 19, 1983 |
| Site notes | |
| Architect | T.W. Fuller |
Architectural style | Beaux-Arts design with Neo-Classical decoration |
| Owner | Public Works and Government Services Canada (before 2017) |
| Designated | May 10, 2017 |
The Dominion Public Building is a five-storey Beaux-Arts neoclassical office building built between 1926 and 1935 for the Government of Canada at southeast corner of Front and Bay streets in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The building was designed by architects Thomas W. Fuller and James Henry Craig and originally served as Toronto's federal customs clearing house for the former Department of National Revenue. It remained a federal property, housing a number of administrative and support functions for the later Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (now the Canada Revenue Agency).
The building's north facade is curved to follow the property line along Front Street east of Bay Street. To the south is CIBC Square, formerly the site of the Union Station Bus Terminal which was previously the CP Express and Freight Building which itself replaced the old Grand Trunk Freight Shed after 1904.
On January 11, 2017, Canada Lands Company announced the pending sale of the property. By March 23, 2017, Larco Investments, owner of Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, had bought the Dominion Public Building.
Larco is adding two mixed use towers and transforming the building into a podium for retail tenants. Canada Revenue Agency is relocating staff to other locations in the GTA (Mississauga, North York (2 locations), Scarborough (Canada Centre Building) and Oshawa).