Toronto Harbour Commission Building

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The Toronto Harbour Commission Building is a six-storey limestone office building in Toronto, built in 1917 for the Toronto Harbour Commission by architects Alfred Chapman and McGiffin (Clare V. McGiffin and Robert B. McGiffin). The exterior uses Indiana and Queenston limestone. It later housed PortsToronto, the successor to the Toronto Port Authority. The lower floor is now Harbour Sixty Steakhouse. Although it was once on the waterfront, infill and city growth left it on dry land and surrounded by taller buildings. Since 1953 there have been rumors of the ghost of Thomas Cates, a night-shift janitor who died on the job, seen in the north-west stairwell. In 2017 PortsToronto sold the building for CAD 96 million to Oxford Properties to be part of a new commercial project called The Hub. It originally cost $247,000 to build.