Ronald Thom
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Ronald James Thom, was a Canadian architect. He is well known for two works: Massey College and Trent University's riverside campus.
Ron Thom, Trent University (CC: Dieter Janssen)
Interior steps of the Bata Library (CC: Dieter Janssen
Image: Massey dining hall
Image: Trent University Bata Library
Massey College, Toronto
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Massey College is a graduate residential college at the University of Toronto that was established, built and partially endowed in 1962 by the Massey Foundation and officially opened in 1963, though women were not admitted until 1974. It was modeled around the traditional Cambridge and Oxford collegiate system and features a central court and porters lodge.
View from the college's quadrangle
The pond in the quad provides constant sound which muffles the city noise from beyond the college walls
This inscription hangs in the main stairwell of Massey College, which reads: "This House was built by the Massey Foundation in 1962. It was the intention of the Founders to bring into being a College to serve a body of graduates limited in numbers but of high promise in scholarship and qualified to make of worth the fellowship to which they belong. It is the Founders' prayer that through the fulness of its corporate life and the efforts of its members, the College will nourish learning and serve the public good."