5-593: Victoria City Hall is the city hall for Victoria , British Columbia , Canada. It is located at the corner of Douglas Street and Pandora Avenue adjacent to the CTV Vancouver Island studios and the McPherson Playhouse in downtown Victoria . It is home to the Victoria City Council . It was completed in 1890. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1977 and was also designated as
10-473: A heritage site by the municipality in 1979. Architect John Teague designed Victoria's City Hall, which is considered "one of the best surviving examples of Second Empire -style public architecture in Western Canada ." The earliest surviving municipal hall has a foot 105 tall Gillet and Johnson clock tower, three types of façades, tall windows, pedimented dormer windows and a metal mansard roof. The exterior
15-468: Is also seat of its government, thus that city is appropriately referred to as the national seat of government. The terms are not however, completely synonymous, as some countries ' seat of government differs from the capital. The Netherlands , for example, has Amsterdam as its capital but The Hague is the seat of government; and the Philippines , with Manila as its capital but the metropolitan area of
20-518: Is constructed of concrete, brick and stone. The Second Empire style reflects a change in the design and construction of governmental buildings, intended to symbolize the government's growth and power. It was constructed from 1878 to 1891 at Pandora Avenue and Douglas Street. City Hall is a landmark in Victoria's Old Town District that in 1963 was nearly razed to make way for the Centennial Square, but
25-478: Is now an important historical building there. This article about a building or structure in British Columbia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Seat of local government The seat of government is (as defined by Brewer's Politics ) "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority ". In most countries, the nation's capital
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