once a Sunday school...

 If I can get away with saying "churchy looking".... well hey, I just did. I can't find that much about this little building. It faces onto Elgin Street and bears the number 275. It's an annex to the adjoining St. John the Evangelist Church on the corner of Somerset West. To its immediate south, a Wine Rack, Ministry of Coffee, and the Fox & Feather  occupy shopfronts in old Harmon school/apartment building. 275's paved-over, vest-pocket  front yard serves as a smoking square for the women of The Well / La Source as often as not.

Though it looks small from the front, the annex extends backward the full length of its parent church — the stone foundation hints at turn-of-the-century construction.

 The church. not surprisingly, was built first. Goad January 1888 (sheet #52) shows "Grace Church (Episcopal)" without an annex. Goad 1912 (again sheet #52) depicts the annex and labels it a Sunday school.

 The church is now St. John the Evangelist. This snippet of history from their website roughly agrees with Goad's information. You can view the entire page here.

"...In 1889, a furore [sic] erupted in St George’s Church which was to have a dramatic effect upon the life of St John’s. A small core of thirty people left St George’s over a dispute centering on the liturgy, and this group bought a piece of land at the corner of Elgin and Somerset Streets from James McLaren of Buckingham, Quebec. Mr. J. Hames was hired as the architect and construction began on a new Anglican church. The total agreed cost of the new church was $20,000 and the cornerstone was laid on October 21, 1890.

Within three months, a small congregation was worshiping in the unfinished structure. The first baptism was held on May 15, 1890, when the Rector, John Gorman, christened his son, John. At the annual Vestry of 1891, Father Gorman agreed not to tamper with either the theology or the liturgy of the parish without a two-thirds agreement from the parish. In March, 1891, the church was completed and consecrated as Grace Church..."

The former Sunday school is now a multi-use space. On Friday nights it's home to Rahim's Salsa.