Seagram Museum (former), 57 Erb Street West
This building was originally a warehouse of the Waterloo Distillery. The east-west ridge of its gable roof is in alignment with the flow of ventilation directed through shuttered windows on the east and west faces of the warehouse. The windows are set in segmentally arched wooden frames. In 1904, a portion of the north-east corner of the building was cut off so that the Preston and Berlin Railway, Joseph E. Seagram's preferred carrier, could squeeze its tracks between those of the Grand Trunk Railway and the building. However, the Grand Trunk immediately pushed its track closer to the building, blocking the way again. Joseph E. Seagram then ordered that a further portion of the building's corner be removed, and, to prevent further encroachment by the Grand Trunk, he arranged for the presence of the Waterloo fire department with their hoses, which were used on the Grand Trunk employees until the Preston and Berlin was completed. In 1983, a postmodern addition (which earned the architect, Barton Myers Associates, a Governor General's Medal in Architecture) was made to the warehouse and it was converted into the Seagram Museum.
