The his­tor­i­cal build­ing at 183 Dover­court Road now known as The Argyle Authen­tic Lofts is located on one of the 100 acre ‘park lots’ that were sur­veyed north of present day Queen Street West and awarded to gov­ern­ment offi­cials fol­low­ing the found­ing of the Town of York in 1793.

The build­ing was orig­i­nally devel­oped in 1873, at which time the famous baker, John Demp­ster, owned his first bak­ery and gro­cery store.

The Ideal Bread Fac­tory itself was the cre­ation of Mon­treal archi­tect Syd­ney Comber (1887−1961) in 1919. Comber spe­cial­ized in indus­trial archi­tec­ture and achieved recog­ni­tion for sev­eral other sim­i­lar indus­trial design projects.

Comber was inspired by and incor­po­rated many aspects of Edwar­dian Clas­si­cism, giv­ing this industrial/working build­ing a real sense of style and grace as a segue into the Art Deco period. In the Ideal Bread Factory’s hey­day, the entire ground floor was used for ship­ping the thou­sands of loaves of bread pro­duced daily, in fact, 14,000 per hour.

Wag­ons drew up to Argyle Street to what is now slated to be court­yard gar­dens. The build­ing was con­structed for the mass pro­duc­tion of bread and from the large airy base­ment for the stor­age of flour, to the gigan­tic mix­ers and troughs on the fifth floor, one can almost smell the fresh baked bread.

Ris­ing five sto­ries, The Argyle Authen­tic Lofts was and remains the tallest struc­ture in the imme­di­ate neigh­bour­hood. The dis­tinc­tive cor­ner bak­ery entrance will con­tinue to be the loft’s front door, with the clock retained as a reminder of the building’s indus­trial past.

The his­tory and charm of this build­ing set it apart from other indus­trial loft con­ver­sions in Toronto mak­ing it truly one-of-a-kind. The Argyle Authen­tic Lofts will con­tinue to be a land­mark in this prime res­i­den­tial neigh­bour­hood.

Core Archi­tects Inc. is the archi­tec­tural and inte­rior design team behind The Argyle Authen­tic Lofts and some of Toronto’s most pop­u­lar down­town addresses. With a port­fo­lio of res­i­den­tial work that reflects a thor­ough under­stand­ing of urban liv­ing require­ments, Core sets itself apart by trans­lat­ing these require­ments into beau­ti­ful, func­tional liv­ing spaces. Core’s com­mit­ment to fine archi­tec­ture ensures the use of strong, inno­v­a­tive con­cepts designed to sat­isfy the most dis­cern­ing homeowner.

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