# List of historic places in Greater Sudbury

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. Currently houses a drug rehab clinic. | |
| 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 $125,000. The clock (with four illuminated faces) was manufactured in England and installed by Alex Beath, veteran jeweller and watchmaker of Sudbury.$^{pg32}$ The post office was demolished in 1959$^{pg197}$, 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 | |