Osgoode Hall
| Osgoode Hall | |
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| General information | |
| Type | office and courts |
| Location | 130 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°39′08″N 79°23′08″W / 43.65222°N 79.38556°WCoordinates: 43°39′08″N 79°23′08″W / 43.65222°N 79.38556°W |
| Construction started | 1829 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 3 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | John Ewart and William Warren Baldwin |
| Designated | 1979 |
Osgoode Hall is a landmark building in downtown Toronto dating from 1829. It originally served to house the regulatory body for lawyers in Ontario along with its law school (formally established as Osgoode Hall Law School in 1889) which was the only recognized professional law school for the province at the time. It was constructed between 1829 and 1832 in the late Georgian Palladian and Neoclassical styles. It currently houses the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Divisional Court of the Superior Court of Justice, the offices of The Law Society of Upper Canada and the Great Law Library. The portico of Osgoode Hall's east wing was built at the head of Toronto's York Street to serve as a terminating vista, though it is now obscured by trees planted on the building's lawn.
Osgoode Hall was named in honour of the province's first chief justice, William Osgoode from which Osgoode Hall Law School also get's its name. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1979. It was also designated by the City of Toronto under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1990.
The six-acre (24,000 m²) site at the corner of Lot Street (Queen Street West today) and College Avenue (University Avenue today) was acquired by the Law Society in 1828. At the time, the location was on the northwest edge of the city, which has since grown around the building. It was originally bounded on its north side by Osgoode Street, and on its east side by a street that would eventually be known as Chestnut Street. The former no longer exists, and the latter now stops at Armoury Street as Nathan Phillips Square now lies to the east. The original 2 1⁄2-storey building was started in 1829 and finished in 1832 from a design by John Ewart and W. W. Baldwin. The structure was named after William Osgoode, the first Chief Justice of Upper Canada (what is now the Canadian province of Ontario).
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