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Originally Posted by fenwick16
There are small properties on either side of the Barrington facade that are not included in this development. Is one of these the Johnston Building? Do you know when these buildings were constructed and what condition they are in?
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According to the Catalogue of Buildings for the Barrington Street Hertiage District the small neighbours are as follows
To the left:
The Colwell Building (Certainly Cinnamon and the Sushi place) built 1871.
Buckley's Building (United Bookstore) built 1897.
Johnson Building (Little Mysteries) built 1890
To the right:
D'Allaird Building (Vogue Optical) built circa 1950.
The Johnston Building is the provincial government office building at the corner of Prince and Barrington (kind of confusing since there is a Johnston and Johnson in the same block!). It use to be an Eatons department store. It's several doors down on Barrington, but is actually right next to the Roy on the Granville side because both the Roy and Johnston Building are bigger at the back then at the front (they're on L shaped lots). As far as I know, everything on the block except the Roy is in pretty good shape. The Johnston Building has been taken care of by the provincial government and Certainly Cinnamon has had work done on it recently. The Vogue has that ugly modern addition slapped on the top and its upper floors are in use so I would be surprised to hear it has problems.