This Modernist apartment tower, one of the first built west of downtown, has been an Oliver icon for sixty years.

Once home to a Great War amputee, Jewish-Romanian furriers, and an Order of Canada recipient, this unassuming Oliver Foursquare is living on bought time.

Dorothy Hammond, a fourteen year-old schoolgirl, was walking home on November 15th, 1941, when she was suddenly attacked by a stranger — her killer stabbed her a dozen times. A two-day manhunt followed.