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20161115. The temporary rear view of Toronto’s St. Lawrence Hall. Architect William Thomas, Classic Revival, 1851.
20160916. From woolens / cigar box factory to the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres.
Renaissance Revival, 1885.
20160404. East elevation of Toronto’s once Consumers Gas Co. Purifying House No. 2 and now the Canadian Opera Company’s Opera Theatre.
Architects Strictland and Symens, 1888, Renaissance Revival.
The building was designed in the style of an early Christian basilica with a clerestory roof. It may have been built as a self-supporting structure and simply placed on top of the building so that any explosion would raise it without destroying the walls (from the COC’s website).
20160221. The Old Don Jail restored to its original stunning beauty II.
20160220. The Old Don Jail restored to its original stunning beauty.
20150805. Toronto’s striking St. Lawrence Hall (1851, Renaissance Revival) and home of Heritage Toronto.
