The Empress Hotel is a three storey red-brick building at the corner of Yonge and Gould streets, in downtown Toronto,
History[]
1847: Williams Reynolds buys the property and builds a bakery on the corner. By 1855: Reynolds operates a bakery and a grocery story in a three-part, two-storey commercial building.
1888: Reynolds receives a building permit for a three storey, six-unit commercial building.
1888: Reynolds and his heirs lease the premises to Richard Dissette, whose family operates the Empress Hotel for three decades.
1889: The building is partially occupied and the corner unit begins operating as the Express Hotel. The entire building was known as the William Reynolds Block.