Gooderham Building

The Gooderham Building, also known as the Flatiron Building, is a historic office building at 49 Wellington Street East in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the eastern edge of the city's Financial District (east of Yonge Street) in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood, wedged between Front Street and Wellington Street, where they join up to form a triangular intersection. Completed in 1892, the red-brick edifice was an early example of a prominent flatiron building.The Gooderham Building is the focal point of one of Toronto's most iconic vistas: looking west down Front Street towards the building's prominent rounded corner, framed on the sides by the heritage commercial blocks along Front Street, and with the skyscrapers of the Financial District towering in the background. The CN Tower is also visible from certain angles behind Brookfield Place. This vista frequently appears in imagery of the city.HistoryThe previous building was shorter, but in the same shape, and was called the Coffin Block. The current building was designed by architect David Roberts, Jr. and originally cost $18,000 to construct for distiller George Gooderham Sr. (1830–1905), son of the Gooderham and Worts distillery's founder, William Gooderham. It was the office of the Gooderham and Worts distillery until 1952, and it was sold by the Gooderham family in 1957.