 Since renovations in the early 2000s, the hotel has become an arts hub in the West Queen West neighbourhood of Toronto.In June 1973, the City of Toronto assigned a Part IV historical designation to the property.The hotel was designed by George Martell Miller, the architect of the Lillian Massey building of the University of Toronto, many other public buildings in the city, as well as a large number of grand residential buildings in the Parkdale neighbourhood.