Tobacco Store in the Old Grand Central Hotel Building

Description

Médias

Image

Type d'élément

Photographs

Description

This is a photograph of the old shaving parlor and tobacco store that used to be located in the old Grand Central Hotel building at 150-152 Queen Street East.

The Grand Central Hotel building was built around 1850 for T.B. Guest, a prominent businessman in early St. Marys. The building became the "Oxford House" in 1874, and was renamed to the "Grand Central Hotel" in 1886. It remained a hotel until 1917 when the sale of alcohol was prohibited in Ontario and the owner, George Norris, started to rent the downstairs out to businesses and the upstairs to tenants.

This photograph would likely have been taken shortly after Edgar Fern Marshall, a barber who also dealt tobacco, started renting part of the building from Norris. If you look very closely, you can almost make out "Marshall" reflected off of a sign in the window.

Notes

Condition: good.

Dimensions

Largeur: 17.6 cm
Hauteur: 12.7 cm

Dimensions d'image

Largeur d'image: 17cm
Hauteur d'image: 12.1cm

Sujet(s)

Hotels
Tobacco

Identifiant local

eedy009

Collection

Eedy Collection

Langage de l'élément

English

Couverture géographique

St. Marys

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.2593423403926 Longitude: -81.1413685043658

Donneur

R. Lorne Eedy

Déclaration de droit d'auteur

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Citation recommandée

Eedy Collection. "Tobacco Store in the Old Grand Central Hotel Building" St. Marys Museum, eedy009.

Emplacement d'original

R. Lorne Eedy Archives

Conditions d'utilisation

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