McMaster Hall

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted March, 2004

At 273 Bloor Street West, west of Avenue Road, stands an Ontario Heritage Trust plaque which says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.668058 -79.396251

This building was designed by the Toronto firm of Langley, Langley and Burke, specialists in church architecture, to house Toronto Baptist College. The structure typifies the High Victorian style popular in the 1880's. Its chief characteristics include rock-faced masonry, decorative stone and brick patterns, massive dormers and chimneys, and facades with projecting bays and recessed panels. Senator William McMaster financed the construction of the College, which opened in 1881. After plans for federation with the University of Toronto were abandoned, the College was united in 1887 with Woodstock College to form McMaster University, which moved to Hamilton in 1930. This building was acquired by the University of Toronto and has housed the Royal Conservatory of Music since 1963.

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Posted October 6, 2010
This plaque has not been here for some time. Now that the renovations and the surrounding Telus Center have been completed, perhaps it will reappear. The building is also a national historic site (since 1995), but no federal plaque has ever been erected. -Wayne

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