Old City Hall

Toronto


Across Bay St from the current City Hall is the 1899 definitive work of Toronto architect EJ Lennox. Now housing courtrooms, the hall has an off-center bell tower, interesting murals, stained-glass windows and grimacing gargoyles.


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