Ford Hotel
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The Ford Hotel was a historic hotel in central Toronto. The 750 room hotel consisted of three 12 storey towers on Dundas Street West, east of Bay Street. It was built in 1928 and for several decades was one of the city's most prominent hotels. The hotel was next to the bus station and provided cheap rooms for lower income travellers. It was also well known as a site for crime and vice. The Toronto Star called it the "rendezvous of choice for couples pursuing an illicit affair."[1] In 1973 one of the rooms was the site of the sexual assault and murder of 9 year old Kirk Deasley by John McBeth Finlayson.[2]
The building was demolished in 1973 and the site it today home to the Atrium on Bay.
