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Campbell House
This formal Georgian mansion dating from 1822 was one of the city's first brick buildings, belonging to Chief Justice William Campbell. It's been beautifully refurbished in 19th-century style by the Advocates' Society, which uses the premises as its clubhouse. Tours are run by friendly costumed guides. In 1972 the whole house was shifted here from its original location on Adelaide St, 1.5km away - a slow-and-steady six hour voyage.
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Cn Tower
Having recently turned 30, this funky spike remains every bit as cool and iconic as it was when it opened in 1976. Its primary function is as a radio and TV communications tower, but relieving tourists of as much cash as possible seems to be the second order of business. Sure, it's expensive, but riding the great glass elevators up the highest freestanding structure (553m) in the world is one of those things in life you just have to do.
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Design Exchange
The streamlined moderne Design Exchange building served as the original Toronto Stock Exchange from 1937, its grand opening pushing Toronto ahead of Montréal as Canada's financial centre. Check out the art deco stone friezes and the medallions on the stainless steel doors detailing stern-faced communist pick-wielders and jack-hammer operators.
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Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre
A restored masterpiece, the Elgin & Winter Garden is the world's last operating double-decker theatre. Built in 1913, the stunning Winter Garden was built as the flagship for a vaudeville chain that never really took off, while the downstairs Elgin theatre was converted into a movie house in the 1920s.
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Old City Hall
Across Bay St from City Hall is the Romanesque Old City Hall (1899), the definitive work of Toronto architect EJ Lennox, the same man who built Casa Loma. Lennox was chastised for inscribing his name just below the eaves here, tainting what was then the largest municipal building in North America. Now housing legal courtrooms, the hall has an off-centre bell tower, interesting murals, grimacing gargoyles and an allegorical stained-glass window.
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Toronto Public Library - Lillian H Smith Branch
Architecturally speaking, this children's library is worth a peek for its fairy-tale interior and bronze griffins flanking the front door. Special collections archive precious picture books, sci-fi novels, original artwork and manuscripts, poetry, letters and early movable (pop-up) books. Storytime and puppet shows are free.
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University Of Toronto - St George Campus
Campus life rotates around the grassy/muddy expanse of King's College Circle, where students study on blankets, kick soccer balls around and dream of graduation day in domed Convocation Hall. Dating from 1919, sociable Hart House is an all-purpose art gallery, music performance space, theatre, student lounge and café. Soldiers' Tower next door is a memorial to students who lost their lives during WWI and WWII.
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