Union Station is a major railway station and intermodal transportation hub in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the busiest transportation facility in the country, handling more than 72 million passengers a year. It was designed by the Montreal firm Ross and Macdonald in the Beaux-Arts style, with the Canadian Pacific Railway's Hugh Jones and the Toronto architect John M. Lyle assisting, and opened on August 6, 1927 in a ceremony led by Edward, Prince of Wales, who is said to have remarked on entering the Great Hall that Canadians built their train stations like cathedrals. The facade stretches 752 feet and is fronted by 22 Roman Tuscan limestone columns, each 40 feet tall and weighing 75 tons, while the Great Hall itself measures 250 by 88 feet, roofed with a coffered Guastavino tile ceiling above floors of Tennessee marble laid in herringbone pattern. The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada has called it one of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts railway station design in the country, and the building was declared a National Historic Site in 1975 and given Heritage Railway Station status in 1989.
Facts
Building Type Location65 Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
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
Source Union Station (Toronto), Wikipedia
Uses Element
Source Union Station (Toronto), Wikipedia
Source Union Station (Toronto), Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Canada, located there.
Sources
1. Union Station (Toronto), Wikipedia
Short description
Major rail hub in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Infobox, address
65 Front Street West
History, Construction
headhouse and east and west office wings (the station building visible from Front Street West) were completed in 1920,
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Union Station is a major railway station and intermodal transportation hub in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the busiest transportation facility in the country, handling more than 72 million passengers a year. It was designed by the Montreal firm Ross and Macdonald in the Beaux-Arts style, with the Canadian Pacific Railway's Hugh Jones and the Toronto architect John M. Lyle assisting, and opened on August 6, 1927 in a ceremony led by Edward, Prince of Wales, who is said to have remarked on entering the Great Hall that Canadians built their train stations like cathedrals. The facade stretches 752 feet and is fronted by 22 Roman Tuscan limestone columns, each 40 feet tall and weighing 75 tons, while the Great Hall itself measures 250 by 88 feet, roofed with a coffered Guastavino tile ceiling above floors of Tennessee marble laid in herringbone pattern. The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada has called it one of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts railway station design in the country, and the building was declared a National Historic Site in 1975 and given Heritage Railway Station status in 1989.
- In Style: Beaux-Arts Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Beaux-Arts
Uses Element: Limestone, Wikipedia article
The colonnaded loggia which faces Front Street features 22 equally spaced Roman Tuscan columns made from Bedford limestone, each high and weighing 75 tons.
Uses Element: Stone, Wikipedia article
The walls are faced with Zumbro stone from Missouri, and the floors are constructed of Tennessee marble laid in a herringbone pattern.
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