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Old
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The magnificent
architecture that Torontonians refer to as "Old" City Hall is located on Queen
Street at the top of the original Bay Street. The historic plaque reads: "City
Hall was designed in 1887 by E.J. Lennox to fit this central site at the head of Bay
Street. In one structure, these municipal buildings combined a City Hall, in the east
portion, and Court-House, in the west. The building, constructed mostly of Credit River
Valley sandstone, was begun in 1889 but not opened until September 18, 1899. Massive,
round-arched, and richly carved, it is in the Romanesque Revival style, then popular in
expanding cities throughout North America. The interior, as complex and monumental as the
exterior, includes a large stained glass window by Robert McCausland. The building was
acquired by the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto in 1965, when the City moved to a new
City Hall on the adjacent Civic Square."   |
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