The picture to the left was taken in 1911 from King and Elizabeth Street. The church-like building in the foreground has been torn down and was replaced with a supermarket store. The church down the street was a M ethodist Church and still stands today as St. Paul's United Church which you can see in the present photo. What is missing is the library which was not built until 1913 and is in the picture to the right.
Many more buildings are also present on the righ t in the modern picture.
Today, only two floors remain because the top floor collapsed in a Christmas snow storm in 1920. It no longer looks as imposing as it used to. Today, the door on the corner still looks the same, however both sides of the building have changed. In the new photo, a mural has also been recently painted on the right side which represents the stores which used to be in the building. Brief History of Midland, Ontario including info on shopes.