Confederation Life Building
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It is located at 2–14 Richmond Street East on the north side of Richmond Street East, extending from Yonge Street to Victoria Street.
The building was once home to insurer Confederation Life, which launched a competition for designs for its new headquarters in May 1889.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The winning entry came from architects Wilm Knox and John Elliot, whose firm Knox, Elliot and Jarvis had only been operating for a few years when it won design rights for the building.[1]Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
A fire gutted the top floor of the building and destroyed the roof in June 1981,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". but the structure survived and was restored for new tenants occupying the primary address at 20 Richmond Street East, with secondary addresses at 157 Yonge and 106 Victoria.
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