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At 13 stories, the Childs Building (officially know as the McArthur Building) was the tallest building in the city from its construction in 1910 until the 1960's.
The Childs was built to eagerly anticipate buildings of equal or greater height being built alongside of it. Unfortunately, by the time the taller buildings came, architecture was governed by Modernist dogma: Rather than a building being part of a whole which creates a block, a space, and a city, each building was an entity of itself which stand-alone and has no use for neighbors.
And so, the Childs --like the rest of this corner of Portage and Main-- was demolished in the 1980's to make way for the TD tower.
According to one report, the steel piles driven into the ground to support the Childs Building still sit there today; so strongly built into the earth that demolition crews gave up trying to get them out.
At 13 stories, the Childs Building (officially know as the McArthur Building) was the tallest building in the city from its construction in 1910 until the 1960's.
The Childs was built to eagerly anticipate buildings of equal or greater height being built alongside of it. Unfortunately, by the time the taller buildings came, architecture was governed by Modernist dogma: Rather than a building being part of a whole which creates a block, a space, and a city, each building was an entity of itself which stand-alone and has no use for neighbors.
And so, the Childs --like the rest of this corner of Portage and Main-- was demolished in the 1980's to make way for the TD tower.
According to one report, the steel piles driven into the ground to support the Childs Building still sit there today; so strongly built into the earth that demolition crews gave up trying to get them out.
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