Old City Hall (Toronto)
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The Old City Hall is a Romanesque-style civic building and former court house in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the home of the Toronto City Council from 1899 to 1966 and a provincial court house un
Toronto's Old City Hall
Lobby in Level 2
An 1898 drawing of a proposed square in front of Old City Hall. The planners of Old City Hall planned for a public plaza at the south entrance of city hall known as Victoria Square.
Council Chambers of Old City Hall. The chambers have been used as a courtroom since the building became a dedicated courthouse.
E. J. Lennox
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Edward James Lennox was a Toronto-based architect who designed several of the city's most notable landmarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Old City Hall and Casa Loma.
Old City Hall (Toronto)
…the county seat and court moved to Newmarket, Ontario (and to the Old Newmarket Town Hall and Courthouse). Designed by prominent Toronto architect Edward James Lennox, the building took more than a decade to build and cost more than $2.5 million (equals close to 53 million today). Work on the building began in 1889…
1885 portrait
Lennox standing in front of one of his buildings, the Freehold Loan Building, at Adelaide and Victoria Streets
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Milburn building, 47 55 Colborne Street, Toronto, built in 1886 by E.J. Lennox