In this circa 1950s aerial photo of the intersection of Ontario Street and St. Clair avenue, the similarity of Knox & Elliot's Engineers Building and Standard Building is obvious. Not only were both designed to be constructed with terra cotta facades, but, while the Standard Building is taller, the two buildings appear to be "flipped" versions of each other. From above, both appears shaped as the letter "C," with the open side of the "C" facing south on the Engineers Building, and north on the Standard Building. The buildings were not only built by the same union, designed by the same architects, and constructed with the same materials. They were also designed and constructed to be symmetric to one other from across Ontario Street. When the Engineers Building was razed in 1989, this symmetry by design was lost to history. | Date: ca. 1950s | Source: Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Journal (2015)Download Original File
