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W.E. Noffke was an architect in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, best known for his residential works. His houses, some of the grandest in the city of the time, are designed in a large variety of styles, most in an eclectic style, often with Mediterranean influences.
The Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) is a municipal gallery in Ottawa, Ontario that opened in 1988 at Arts Court.The gallery has a permanent collection of over one thousand works, houses the City of Ottawa-owned Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, and provides community, educational and public programming.
The National Gallery of Canada (French: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. [8] The museum's building takes up 46,621 square metres (501,820 sq ft), with 12,400 square metres (133,000 sq ft) of space used for exhibiting art.
Ottawa's Notre-Dame Cathedral as seen through Louise Bourgeois's Maman sculpture at the National Gallery. Christ Church Cathedral; Dominion-Chalmers United Church; Notre-Dame Cathedral; See also: List of religious buildings in Ottawa, List of Ottawa churches, List of Ottawa synagogues, List of Ottawa mosques
McKay was born in Perth, Scotland and became a skilled stonemason.He emigrated to the Canadas in 1817, and settled in Montreal.. He became partners with John Redpath and their firm did the masonry work on the Lachine Canal near Montreal, they then went on to build the locks on the lower section of the Rideau Canal, between the Rideau River and the Ottawa River at Bytown.
Ottawa Hydro Electric Company Building: 109 Bank Street: Somerset: 1934? W. C. Beattie: Ottawa Ladies' College: 268 First Avenue: Capital: 1912–1914: Allan Keefer: Ottawa Marble and Granite Works: 14 Waller Street: Rideau-Vanier: 1866: Ottawa New Edinburgh Club: 501 Sir George-Étienne Cartier Parkway: Rideau-Rockcliffe: 1914: C.P. Meredith ...
Ottawa [a] is the capital city of Canada.It is located in the southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the meeting of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River.Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). [13]
Skyline of downtown Ottawa from above the Ottawa River. The city is a mix of different architectural styles, varying based on what era the area was developed in. The architecture of Ottawa is most marked by the city's role as the national capital of Canada. This gives the city a number of monumental structures designed to represent the federal ...