Thread: Voluntarily Demolished Skyscrapers
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Old Posted Oct 24, 2013, 2:34 PM
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The current Union Station is a beautiful Beaux Arts building, but Old Union Station (1858) was a looker as well:


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It and its 1894 addition...


http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/03/v...stcards_redux/

...were demolished between 1927 and 1931, and eventually replaced with the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building:


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