Flatiron Building

The Gooderham Building, also known in Toronto as the Flatiron Building, is a striking red-brick landmark at the eastern end of the Financial District on Wellington Street. It was built in 1891 to designs by David Roberts Jr. and named for the Gooderham family, who founded a large distillery there. Because of its distinctive triangular shape, the building is often called the Flatiron, drawing a parallel to the famous Flatiron Building in New York. The site lies in a part of the city where the first houses of the newly founded town of York went up after 1793. Since 1977, the building has been protected as a National Historic Site of Canada and is considered one of the city's historic landmarks.