Early Exhibition Buildings

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

An Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque outside this building at Exhibition Place tell us not only about this building but about four others close by. Here's what it says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.632860 -79.422462

These five buildings - the Press (1904), Music (1907), Horticulture (1907), Government (1912), and the Fire Hall and Police Station (1912) - are the largest and finest group of early 20th century exhibition buildings in Canada. Designed by G.W. Gouinlock, they reflect the influence of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition of Chicago in their creative classical decoration and ordered integration to a site plan. The first permanent exhibition buildings in Toronto, they are an impressive reminder of the Canadian National Exhibition as the major industrial and agricultural fair of the period.

Related Toronto plaque
Canadian National Exhibition

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