The Old Toronto Star Building at 80 King Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was built in 1929 by Chapman & Oxley and abandoned in 1970 when the Toronto Star newspaper moved to One Yonge Street. The Art Deco building was torn down in 1972 to make way for the First Canadian Place. It stood at 22 storeys or 88 metres tall.
The main tenant of the building was the Toronto Star. On the ground floor facing King Street housed a few retail stores and at the east end the Stoodleigh's Restaurant.
Some stonework from the demolition of the building can be found on the grounds of the Guild Inn, along with other portions of facades of lost buildings of Toronto.
Superman co-creator Joe Shuster used the building as a model for the Daily Planet Building.
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—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
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