26 King St E | 3 fl | U/C

[dtkmelissa]

The fire was in March 2011. It was the Stag Shop that burned down, which also damaged the building next door which was partially demolished. This new building is located where there was a shop called Inception. 2009 street view: https://goo.gl/maps/s4kprpMY23Vsq5Wa7
Aug. 2011 street view: https://goo.gl/maps/nr96CJ6PxqfgvehK9

Ahh I was referring to the entire vacant plot that is now a parking lot/parkette. I pulled out some aerial photos and it appears it was actually 5 separate buildings albeit all next to each other, so I assume none had windows (or if they did, were bricked up as adjacent buildings were subsequently built).

You can see it here. Excuse the photo of a photo, but the UW digitized aerial photos available on their website have abysmal quality. I have some physical copies of them which have much higher quality however. The one with the green arrow is the one with the faux windows. This is from 1946 so the TD Bank building by Bruce Etherington was not there yet as that was built in 1959. I had forgotten the old Stag Shop building only burnt down a couple years ago. I have a vague memory of a fairly large fire that destroyed everything between the old TD building and the American Block though I wasn't too old in the 1990s so I could be remembering wrong. It could be that they were just demolished though I have no idea why that would be the case.

From the Record: The building housing the Stag Shop at 30 King St. E. is part of a block that dates from 1862, when it was constructed by Louis Breithaupt.

The building is no stranger to fire, having been heavily damaged in a blaze in February 1995. https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...lazes.html