Union Station

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2007

Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted June, 2011

Photo Source - Wikimedia Commons

Inside at the west end of this railway station one can find an Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque. Here's what it says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.644989 -79.381392

This station was built between 1915 and 1920 to the designs of Ross and Macdonald, H.G. Jones and J.M. Lyle. Subsequent to the relocation of the tracks, it was opened in 1927. It is the finest example in Canada of stations erected in the classical Beaux-Arts style during an era of expanding national rail networks and vigorous urban growth. Its sweeping façade and imposing Great Hall exhibit the monumental architecture and dramatic use of enclosed space characteristic of the Beaux-Arts movement.

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