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216-218 Bathurst Street was constructed in 1941 in the Art Deco Style. The second floor was added in 1971.
Between 1941 and the mid-2010s, 216-218 Bathurst Street was home to the Oak Leaf Steam Baths. The Oak Leaf Steam Baths were a men's only bathhouse primarily serving the area's large Eastern European and Jewish communities. While never formally a gay venue, the Oak Leaf Steam Baths had also become a meeting place for closeted gay, bi, and queer men by the late 1940s.
Since the bathhouse closed in the mid-2010s, the building has sat vacant and increasingly derelict. There was a proposal in the late 2010s to construct a boutique hotel at the site.
(Research by Adam Wynne)
