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The Ford Hotel was a historic hotel in central Toronto. It was one of five hotels in the R.T. Ford & Company hotel chain and was identical to the Ford Hotel, Buffalo and Ford Motel, Montreal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=https://www.playle.com/listing.php?i=HOMERBOB8799&PHPSESSID=4gvc2utd0ekqrgvorfbdfin8r4 )〕 The 750-room hotel consisted of three 12-storey wings connected at the rear by a perpendicular spine atop a one-storey base contained the lobby, restaurants and other amenities. The structure was located 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 Toronto Bus Terminal 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." 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. The building was demolished in 1973 and the site is today home to the Atrium on Bay. ==Other Ford Hotels== All buildings were designed by Rochester architect John Foster Warner (1859–1937) and all but Toronto and Buffalo locations survive today: * Ford Hotel, Erie - Built in Erie, PA, the 400-room hotel located at 515 State Street was renamed Richford Hotel and is now Richford Arms apartments * Ford Hotel, Buffalo - Built in 1922, the 750-room hotel located at 210-214 Delaware Avenue was later converted as an office tower and home to Buffalo Athletic Club. It was demolished in 2000 and replaced with Hampton Inn and Suites Hotel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.buffaloah.com/h/pm/1/source/3.html )〕 * Ford Hotel, Rochester - Built in 1915 as the Hotel Richford for Men, a 400-room fireproof hotel. In 1929, the hotel was renamed the Ford Hotel, now for men and women; in 1944 the name went back to Richford. The hotel, at 67 Chestnut Street & Elm Street, operated until 1968 and subsequently became the Richmond Office Building, with multiple tenants until the early 2000s. At some point the building was covered in metal cladding, changing its original appearance. In 2007 the vacant building was sold to a developer to create high-end condominiums with street level retail. However, due to the recession and other stalled projects in the former Midtown Plaza area, financing has been difficult. * Hotel Ford, Montreal - Opened in 1930, the 750-room hotel served as CBC-Radio-Canada Montreal headquarters from 1936 to the early seventies. Located at 1425 René-Levesque Ouest, it is now an office building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.imtl.org/montreal/building/Hotel-Ford.php )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ford Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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