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Dearborn Chemical Company

Dearborn Chemical Company — Abandoned Industrial in Toronto, Ontario

thephysicalworld 1948 views Dec 28, 2022 19 photos

About this album

Sadly, I was unable to find any POEs on this trip, but I had a great time admiring the exterior and looking up its history. It's a beautiful building.

Photos

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From City of Toronto Archives: 1935. The building appeared to be called the Dearborn Chemical Co. Limited.
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From City of Toronto Archives: 1935, the Ideal Aluminum building. The Dearborn Chemical Company is at the very right of the photo. I included this photo because if you travel to this location, you can actually still see the faint remnants of the Ideal Aluminum Products logo on the side of the building. Pretty cool!
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From Google Maps: July 2009. Must have been renovated to get a third floor over the last century! Graffiti and boards are visible.
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From Google Maps: August 2011. The windows were flipped out for some reason. Also, you can still see the empty patch where the Dearborn Chemical sign was.
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From Google Maps: August 2014.
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From Google Maps: May 2016.
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From Google Maps: August 2017.
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From Google Maps: September 2018. It looks like all the glass was knocked out of the upper-floor windows.
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From Google Maps: May 2019. New windows!
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From Google Maps: October 2020. Signs advising passersby not to touch the bricks have popped up in the lower floor windows.
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Now. The signs in the windows are still there, three years later. Also visible is the only gate without barbed wire.
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A barbed-wire gate. There is a stairwell just beyond leading into the building.
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Another barbed-wire gate near the back of the building.
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A view beyond the locked gate, the only one without barbed wire. One of the windows is broken.
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Graffiti on the inside of the windows...
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I'm not hallucinating, am I?
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A view of the back from the GO station. The window signs state there is audio/video surveillance.

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