Swords Hotel, Front Street, Toronto, Ontario

Lithograph with blue and cream tint stones on wove paper.

Inscribed on the stone l.r.: Drawn from Nature & on Stone by Maclear & Co. Lithographers Toronto.; b.: SWORDS' HOTEL FRONT STREET TORONTO. / Between York. and Bay Streets / P. SWORDS' PROPRIETOR. JRR (1912) 516. 

342-"SWORDS' HOTEL-Front street, Toronto, between York and Bay streets. P. Swords, Proprietor." The buildings in the picture were four dwelling houses, called the Ontario Terrace, erected about 1845, on the north side of Front, between York and Bay streets. They were occu· pied from 1848·53 by Knox College, and a year later became Swords' Hotel, under the proprietorship of P. Swords. From 1860·62 the business was carried on by J. B. Riley, as the Revere House. Since 1862 the hotel has been known as the Queen's under the proprietorship of Capt. Thos. Dick up to 1874, McGaw and Irish, 1875, and 1876·1916 McGaw and Winnett. Lithographed by Maclear & Co., Toronto. Size 19 x 29.