Corner store, dépanneur, whatever — #380 Laurier Avenue West was originally a row of four 2½-storey wooden houses (370-378 Maria), built before 1875. Aerial photos show that these were demolished at some point between 1945 and 1958, after which the property served as a parking lot until at least 1976, possibly until the mid-1980s when the Kent Towers apartments (background, 1986) were built.
The original row-houses appear in the upper left-hand corner of this detail of Charles Goad's 1878 insurance plan, sheet #38, at Kent and Maria (now Laurier West.)
(photo David Chouinard)
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