The Broadview Hotel

Where | Queen and Broadview Opened in | July 2017 price | $495 per night for the 700-square-foot Dominion Suite OperatOr | Crescent Hotels and Resorts

For decades, this stunner of a Romanesque building was hidden beneath sun-bleached billboards advertising “Girls, Girls, Girls.” When the place finally sold to Streetcar Developments in 2014, the property formerly known as Jilly’s strip club was barely able to hold up its own weight. An extensive renovation began with a new skeleton to support the 128-year-old bricks and mortar.

While the lobby could double as a film noir set, the rest of the hotel irreverently mixes and matches styles from different eras. The sunny café is a postmodern mishmash of neon lights, mid-century-modern furniture and ’70s floral prints.

The sixth-floor Dominion Suite, the Broadview’s most lavish room, has arched windows that rise from the floor. The decor blends Victorian features, like pink floral wallpaper, with Moulin Rouge lasciviousness. By the Eurotop king bed, a brass pole conjures images of the building’s strip-club past. (Management says that, although the pole is sturdily installed, it’s mainly for decoration— not for amateur floor routines.)

The double-wide soaker tub tucked into a window-facing bedroom alcove suggests that this is a suite for bringing your Pretty Woman fantasies to life. Just make sure to draw the curtains, unless you’re really serious about recapturing the building’s exhibitionist past.

The Dominion Suite’s chairs were built in Toronto by Quality and Company.

The all-white bathroom, with its matte-black fixtures and floor tiles, nicely contrasts with the dark wood in the rest of the Dominion Suite.

Behind the reception desk, there are illuminated vitrines used for rotating historical displays. The current one consists of vintage toys made by Toronto’s Reliable Toy Company.

The wallpaper is a Victorian-inspired floral print from House of Hackney that matches the velvet upholstery on the chairs.