former
Bank of Nova Scotia
now Information Centre and Library of Parliament
125 Sparks Street (map F)
John M. Lyle
1924 III
- Classified Federal Heritage Building
- Designated building under Ontario Heritage Act
- introduced Canadian sculptural themes to Classical architecture
- Greek Doric Revival style, fluted columns "in antis"
and fully detailed entablature
(note use of triglyphs, circular metopes, dentils, and regulae
with guttae or dowels)
- rusticated stone base (deep joints) with console-style porch
and carved frieze
- niches containing original bronze braziers
- Interior designated, but altered by steel free-standing full
height book stacks
- former manager's office, now Parliamentary Info Centre, has
very fine woodwork.
- new glass rear wall has been created, facing Parliament Hill
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