Montreal architect Sydney Comber designed this factory building in Edwardian Classical style. Its façades feature stone detailing and are divided into distinct bays by brick pilasters. Window design is unique to each level and reflects the original separation - by factory floors - of the processes of bread production. In the final stage, bread wagons were loaded from the ground-level archways on Argyle Street. In use as a bakery until 1957, this building was converted to residential lofts in 2007.
You can take a virtual tour of a unit listed for $ 1,550,000.
The factory clock remains above the front entrance.
The Ideal Bread Company Factory, now known as the Argyle Lofts, is a historic building located at 183-193 Dovercourt Road in Toronto. Originally built in 1919 in the Edwardian Classical style, the building served as a five-story bakery, with distinct floors dedicated to different stages of bread production.
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The Ideal Bread Company Factory was designed top to bottom to accommodate the interior uses. The penthouse level on the fifth floor originally contained an assembly hall with a stage and seating for 400 people that was used by the employees and, on occasion, the public. After mixing on the fourth floor, dough was shaped on the third level where the extended ceiling height accommodated two “travelling ovens” that produced up to 7000 loaves per hour. The finished product was conveyed to the second floor for packaging, then transferred to the first floor where wagons delivered supplies and removed bread and baked goods (produced on the second storey) through the round-arched openings.
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