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Centre Block

Government and Civic Buildings

Centre Block stands at the heart of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, housing the House of Commons and the Senate chambers along with the offices of Canada's prime minister and other senior officials. The original building, constructed between 1859 and 1876 in a Gothic Revival style, was destroyed by a fire in 1916 that killed seven people, sparing only the adjoining Library of Parliament, whose fireproof iron doors are credited with containing the blaze. A new Centre Block was rebuilt on the same site between 1916 and 1922 in a similar Gothic Revival idiom, now crowned by the Peace Tower, a clock and bell tower completed in 1927 as a memorial to Canadians killed in the First World War. The building underwent an extensive multi-year rehabilitation beginning in the late 2010s, during which Parliament's sittings were relocated to a temporary chamber elsewhere on the grounds.

Facts
Building Type
Parliament Building 1
Location
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1
Completed Year
1927 2
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Government / Parliament Building 1
Connections

Has Building Type

Parliament Building, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Gothic Revival, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Centre Block

Uses Element

Sandstone, Architectural Materials
Source Wikipedia: Centre Block
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Canada, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Centre Block
  • Lead paragraph 1, sentence 1
    the main building of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill
  • Infobox, location_town
    Ottawa, Ontario
  • Infobox, completion_date
    Current building: 1927 07 01
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Centre Block stands at the heart of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, housing the House of Commons and the Senate chambers along with the offices of Canada's prime minister and other senior officials. The original building, constructed between 1859 and 1876 in a Gothic Revival style, was destroyed by a fire in 1916 that killed seven people, sparing only the adjoining Library of Parliament, whose fireproof iron doors are credited with containing the blaze. A new Centre Block was rebuilt on the same site between 1916 and 1922 in a similar Gothic Revival idiom, now crowned by the Peace Tower, a clock and bell tower completed in 1927 as a memorial to Canadians killed in the First World War. The building underwent an extensive multi-year rehabilitation beginning in the late 2010s, during which Parliament's sittings were relocated to a temporary chamber elsewhere on the grounds.
  • In Style: Gothic Revival, infobox architectural_style field: Gothic Revival
  • Uses Element: Sandstone, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Sandstone buildings in Canada
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2. Wikidata: Centre Block
  • Wikidata Q5062237, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q5062237, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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