The south end of Queen's Park, south of Wellesley Street, is home to the captivating Ontario Legislative Building. Designed by Richard Waite, the five floor building was completed in 1893. The building is in the Richardsonian Romanesque style; Waite took advantage of its iron-frame construction to devote an uncharacteristically large area to windows. One tower was intended to hold a clock, but this was never installed; a rose window replaced the clock. A large open area south of the legislature is often used for public gatherings and demonstrations, despite extensive tree cover. Richardsonian Romanesque has both French and Spanish Romanesque characteristics, like the First Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan by architechs George D. Mason and Zachariah Rice in 1891 Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of American architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston in Massachusetts. ...
An aerial view of Queen'sPark in winter facing north, with the OntarioLegislature in its centre, the University of Toronto largely to the west, and the Royal Ontario Museum and defunct McLaughlin Planetarium to the north.
Queen'sPark is an oval park at the north end of University Avenue.
Queen'sPark is bounded mostly by the University of Toronto to the west and northeast, and primarily by government offices to the southeast.
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