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Heritage
Buildings - Seventh Avenue
Murdock Bakery Building - 445 7th Avenue
| Building
Code |
574.D.11 |
Construction
Date |
ca. 1900 |
| Origins |
Bakery |
Description
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The Murdock
Bakery Building occupies a central place in a strip of
brick-fronted
buildings, most constructed in the 1890’s, that line the east
side of Seventh
Avenue at the heart of Virden’s Heritage District.
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Heritage
Value
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The Murdock
Bakery Building is valued for its brick-fronted presence on
historic
Seventh Avenue, its long use as a bake shop, and the once-busy ceramics
shop
operated out of the basement.
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Character
Defining
Elements |
Key elements
that define the exterior heritage character of the Murdock
Bakery
Building Building include:
- its brick-faced façade with a modest corbel table that is
shared
with the building to the south, and a window alignment that is
asymmetrical
and does not match that of the next building with which it shares a
roofline
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Murdock Bakery
Building
interior include:
- a staircase, heating grates, a basement which once housed a ceramic
shop,
a vacant residence upstairs
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| Site
History |
Formerly
on This
Site:
Bread Box – Careme
Bakery – Murray Wright
Bakery – Sandy & Claudie Ritchie
Randolph Bakery
Murdock
Ceramics Downstairs
Fraser Bakery
Red & White Grocery Store
Jim Mair Bakery |
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