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Doors Open at the Distillery Handouts

From 2007 - 2015 The Distillery District has been an enthusiastic participant in Doors Open, Toronto’s annual celebration of its built heritage. Each year we have prepared a handout to introduce the thousands of visitors who have ventured into some very unusual spaces. Although many of the previous venues are usually off-limits, some can be visited at any time and the others remain of general historic interest. So we are posting these annual handouts for your enjoyment. Because the addresses for the venues changed from Building Number to Street Address, the new addresses have been added where necessary to the table of contents below.

Doors Open 2007 Inside the Distillery District: From Top to Bottom
Scale Tank Loft, Building 60 (3 Tank House Lane)
Kiln Furnace & Barrel Vaults, Building 36 (51 Mill Street)

Doors Open 2008 Up and Down at the Distillery District
Kiln Furnace & Barrel Vaults, Building 36 (51 Mill Street)
Rack House D, Building 42 (60 Mill Street)
Yeast Loft, Building 7 (28 Distillery Lane)

Doors Open 2009 Up and Down at the Distillery District
Kiln Furnace & Barrel Vaults, Building 36 (51 Mill Street)
Rack House D, Building 42 (60 Mill Street)
Yeast Loft, Building 7 (28 Distillery Lane) Lit City at the Distillery District (readings about Distillery & Toronto history)
Maureen Jennings, Murdoch Mysteries (1890s)
Sally Gibson, Toronto’s Distillery District: History by the Lake (1869 fire)
Anne Hume, Against All Disaster (1837)
Katherine Govier, Creation (James Audubon, 1833)
Chris Andreae, Industrial Waterfront
Terry Murray, Grotesque Toronto

Doors Open 2010 Industrial Artifacts at the Distillery District
Stone Distillery, Building 5 (36 Distillery Lane)
Scale Tank Loft, Building 61 (3 Tank House Lane)

Doors Open 2011 Industrial Artifacts at the Distillery District
Denaturing Room, Building 47 (24 Tank House Lane)

Doors Open 2012 Industrial Artifacts at the Distillery
Milling, Distilling & Aging: 33 Mill Street (Pure Spirit Condo Corridor)
Coopering, Office & Laboratories 44 Gristmill Lane (Cooperage)
Firefighting, Pumps & Pipes, 8 Distillery Lane
Milling, Mashing & Distilling, 36 Distillery Lane (Stone Distillery)
Bottling & Canning, 9 Trinity Street and 8 Case Goods Lane (The Cannery)
Denaturing, Coppersmithing & Maintenance, 24 Tank House Lane (Denaturing Room)
Malting, 51 Mill Street (Kiln Building)

Doors Open 2013 Adaptive Reuse at the Distillery District
Stone Distillery, 36 Distillery Lane

Doors Open 2014 Secrets of Spirits at the Distillery District
Stone Distillery Tour, 36 Distillery Lane: milling, mashing, fermenting, distilling

Doors Open 2015 Pure Spirits Scale Tank Loft: Adaptive Reuse
Scale Tank Loft: from industrial to modern design office space, 3 Tank House Lane

For information about current cultural events at the site, check http://www.thedistillerydistrict.com/