List of historic places in Greater Sudbury facts for kids

This is a list of significant historic properties in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. The Sudbury Municipal Heritage Committee (SMHC) listed 64 sites in a Heritage Position Paper as part of its new Downtown Sudbury Master Plan in April 2011.

SMHC List

Building	Location	Year Completed	Comment	Image
Ste. Anne's Church	14 Beech Street (address was 40 Beech Street East at one time)	1889 -1894 - 1999	SMHC #31 Saint-Anne des Pins was established as a mission by Jesuits in 1883. Construction of the first Sainte-Anne-des-Pins church took two years and was completed in 1889. In March 1894, the church was destroyed by fire and a smaller church was rebuilt that same year. In 1914, the Sainte-Anne church was enlarged.
Ste. Anne's Presbytery	14 Beech Street (address was 40 Beech Street East at one time)	1883	SMHC #32 Originally built as a two-story log presbytery in 1883, the Ste-Anne-des-Pins rectory is Sudbury's oldest Brick building.
Christ the King Church	30 Beech Street	1928	SMHC #1 The architect was P.J. O'Gorman. Opened in 1928 as St. Joseph's. The name was changed to Christ the King in 1935. In 1947 the church was gutted by fire. The rebuilt architect was L.N. Fabbro. It reopened in 1948.
Rothschild Block	7 Cedar Street	1915	SMHC #20. Built on the property of Daniel Rothschild, one of Sudbury's first prosperous Jewish settlers and the father of National Hockey League player Samuel Rothschild. Currently houses offices, a hair salon, restaurants, Cedar Nest Cafe, a dance and visual arts studio and a physiotherapy clinic.
Wilson-Greenwood Jessop Block	12 Cedar Street	1914	designed by W.H. Owens
Young Co.'s Building	18 Cedar Street	1913
National Building	31 Cedar Street	1895 Demolished 1970s
Old City Hall	83 Cedar Street		SMHC #9. Main city hall until the construction of Tom Davies Square in the 1970s.	Old City Hall
Bell Building	93 Cedar Street		SMHC #13
	SMHC #8
Frontenac Hotel Page 129	14 Durham Street North	1940 Demolished	Original owners Alex Turpin and Charles Davis Page 129
Basin Investments Block	17 Durham Street	C1905
Bank of Montreal	49 Durham Street	1908 Demolished and replaced with modern building
	SMHC #15 Built on the Cochrane-Dunlop Hardware site.
Coulson Hotel	86 Durham Street	1938	SMHC #16 Art Deco	The Coulson Hotel (built 1938) in Sudbury, Ontario (Canada) 86 Durham Street
Stafford Block	93 Durham Street	1916	SMHC #6. Originally built as a department store. Currently houses offices, a nightclub (SRO), and Peppi Panini.
Northern Ontario Building	118 Durham Street		SMHC #7
Wolfe's Bookstore	133 Durham Street		Triangular flatiron building at Elgin and Durham; currently home to Good Luck General Store, a Money Mart location and marketing & advertising agency 50 Carleton.
Bannon Brothers Furniture	135 Durham Street	1923	SMHC #18. expanded 1927, 3-story addition 1941. Now vacant (formerly Roy's Furniture), has been refaced with cement.
Moses Block	143 Durham Street		SMHC #5
former DeMarco Building	25 Elgin Street		SMHC #24 L.N. Fabbro
Grand Opera House	24 Elgin Street	1909	SMHC #11 constructed in 1909. Architect W. Harland. Then Grand Theatre, then Empire Theatre, now a bar and apartments - Seating Capacity = 1229
Plaza Theatre	28 Elgin Street		Seating Capacity = 516 Demolished
CPR Ticket and Telegraph Office	49 Elgin Street		SMHC #28. As of 2013, the building has been adaptively reused as an office space for the executives of the McEwen School of Architecture campus.
Prete Block	206 Elgin Street	1914	SMHC #25 Currently houses The Townehouse Tavern with upstairs apts.
Canadian Pacific Railway Station - VIARail Station	233 Elgin Street	1915	SMHC #2. Built in 1907 as the city's new station for CPR service, with numerous architectural features characteristic of CPR construction in that era. Main cross-Canada line has subsequently relocated to the suburban Sudbury Junction railway station, although the downtown terminal is still in operation as the local terminus of VIA's Budd Car service. Facility became the new home of the city's farmer's market in 2013.
Sudbury Community Arena	240 Elgin Street	1951	SMHC #29 Built on the site of the demolished Central Public School, soon to be demolished for a combo library/art gallery.
Regent Theatre	43 Elm Street		was 71 Elm Street East at one time. Seating Capacity = 1152 Demolished Site of TD-Canada Trust
Mackey Building	56 Elm Street	1920s	SMHC #22 Architect P.J. O'Gorman. Originally built by J.J. Mackey, president of the Sudbury Brewing and Malting Company, to house retail and office space. Currently has a "Cash Money" payday loan store branch and a Pizza Pizza location, and is undergoing conversion into a mixed-use office and loft space.
Silvermans Building	67 Elm Street	1911	SMHC #17. First launched by Aaron Silverman, one of Sudbury's first Jewish settlers, in 1892 as a small store selling men's work clothes to local miners and labourers, by 1911 Silvermans had expanded into a three-storey department store. Currently houses Querney's Office Plus. Upper floors are undergoing conversion into a mixed-use office and loft space.
Muirhead Building - Baikie Block Page 147	73 Elm Street	1910s	SMHC #21. Originally launched in 1891 by local businessman Dan Baikie as the city's first bookstore, it was acquired by Frank Muirhead in 1915 and evolved into Muirhead's, an office furniture and supply store. Bill Muirhead sold the store to Alan Querney in 1972; Querney's sons retained ownership until 2005, when they sold the store to Grand & Toy. Grand & Toy subsequently relocated its store to another location; the Querneys opened a new store, Querney's Office Plus, in the neighbouring Silvermans Building in 2010. The building was then purchased and remodelled by Dalron, one of Sudbury's largest real estate developers. It now houses various businesses, including Flosonics, KeyLogic, Studio123, and the Downtown location of Salute Coffee.
Sterling Standard Bank building	80 Elm Street	1918	SMHC #23 (NW corner at Elgin) – was 2 Elm Street West. In 1928 became Bank of Commerce. Housed a Men's Clothing Store & Tailor for a number of years, some of the original bank features were retained.
Algoma-Nipissing Hospital	Elm Street Demolished
Court House	155 Elm Street Partially Demolished and subsequently refaced in an eastern European post-war communist style.		SMHC #36
Jail	181 Elm Street		SMHC #35
Inco Club 1938	62 Frood Road	1938	SMHC #14
Knox Presbyterian Church	75 Larch Street	1927	SMHC #10
Church of the Epiphany (Designated)	85 Larch Street		SMHC #3
		SMHC #4
Government of Canada Building	19 Lisgar		CRHP id# 11081
Former Canadian Pacific Railway (VIA Rail) Station	1 Van Horne Street		CRHP id# 4596
Doran's Brewery	185 Lorne Street South	1907 pg 66	SMHC #54 Remained vacant for many years after the closure of Northern Breweries in 2006; the building is now undergoing conversion into a loft condominium complex.
Water Tower	Pearl Street		SMHC #57 The Pearl St. Water Tower was designed and built by Horton Steel Works Limited, Fort Erie (Now Niagara Energy) between 1953 and 1956. It was decommissioned in 1998. More recently, the city has considered proposals to redevelop the tower, including the use of its pillars to house advertising billboards, and the conversion of the storage basin into residential dwelling units, commercial office space, banquet facilities or a restaurant. The tower's then-owners appeared on CBC Television's Dragons' Den in 2012 to seek venture capital funding for the ongoing redevelopment, but were unsuccessful; the tower was then acquired by developer Dario Zulich in 2016. Zulich's new plans for the tower, announced in 2019, involved conversion of the grounds into a public park in memory of recently deceased All Nations Church pastor Jeremy Mahood, with the tower to be converted into a housing and social enterprise initiative for homeless and at-risk youth.
St. Joseph's Hospital	20 Ste Anne Road.	1898	SMHC #52 Original building 1898, Surgical Ward added 1914 (Architect W. Harland), 1927 modern laundry added, 1928 new heating plant with a long connecting tunnel. In 1975 the Hospital was closed. Partially demolished thereafter, the remaining portion is now operating as Red Oak Villa retirement home. As of 2016 the Tunnel & Laundry/Heating Plant with chimney stack have been demolished.

Lost Buildings and Structures

Building	Location	Year Completed	Comment	Image
Water Tower	Ash Street (aka Pine Street Water Tower)		Demolished 2011
Capitol Theatre	64 Cedar Street		Seating Capacity = 1369. Demolished 2005.
Cochrane Block	23 Durham Street		Demolished 1974
Acme Block C1910	24 Durham Street	C1910	Demolished	1942 view of portion of East side of Durham St including Acme Block, Traders Bank and Hotel Coulson
Balmoral Hotel	2 Elm Street West		Demolished 1957 pg 197 and Zeller's Department store built on site in 1958. Page 2-45
Nickel Range Hotel	Elm Street	1914	King George VI and Queen Elizabeth stayed there in June 1939 visit. Demolished in 1976.
White House	Elm Street	1890 pg 25	Demolished
Davison's Garage	Elm Street		Chevrolet Oldsmobile Dealer Page 17 Demolished to make way for President Motor Hotel.
D&M Motors	Elm Street		Texaco Page 17 page 90 Demolished to make way for President Motor Hotel.
Gardner's Garage	Elm Street		Dodge De Soto Page 17 page 66, 90
Federal Building - "Old Post Office"	Elm Street - SE corner of Elm and Durham	1915	Erected on the site once occupied by the C.P.R. store. Construction commenced in the fall of 1913 by Dorin and Devlin of Ottawa. Because of the railway tracks, its shape was pentagonal. The stone building and ninety foot clock tower was completed in the fall of 1915 at a cost of $125,000. The clock (with four illuminated faces) was manufactured in England and installed by Alex Beath, veteran jeweller and watchmaker of Sudbury.pg 32 The post office was demolished in 1959 pg 197, replaced by F.W. Woolworth's building, which was also demolished 1998.	Federal Building & Post Office -1915 - Sudbury Ontario
King Edward Hotel	Elgin and Larch	1905	Demolished
Century Theatre	16 Lisgar Street		Seating Capacity = 799. Demolished.
Welcome Arch Kingsway	Kingsway		Demolished 1950 pg 196
Welcome Arch Copper Cliff	Lorne		Demolished 1952 pg 196

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Greater Sudbury