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Rideau Cottage is a historic residential building located on the grounds of Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ontario.The two-level, 22-room Georgian Revival home is owned by the Canadian Crown and has traditionally been inhabited by people associated with the governor general of Canada, including the viceroy's private secretary.
Rideau Hall (officially Government House) is the official residence of the governor general of Canada, the representative of the monarch of Canada. [1] [2] [3] Located in Ottawa, the capital of the country on a 36-hectare (88-acre) estate at 1 Sussex Drive.
The house at 24 Sussex Drive was originally commissioned in 1866 by lumberman and Member of Parliament Joseph Merrill Currier as a wedding gift for his wife-to-be Hannah Wright. [2] It was completed in 1868 and Currier named it Gorffwysfa (Welsh for 'place of rest'). It was sold for $30,000 in 1901, after Hannah Currier's death, to William ...
There are 26 National Historic Sites in Ottawa, [1] of which two (Laurier House and the Rideau Canal) are administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon ). [2] The Rideau Canal, which extends to Lake Ontario at Kingston, was designated in 1925 and was the first site designated in Ottawa. [3]
The Fairmont Château Laurier is a 660,000-square-foot (61,000 m 2) hotel with 429 guest rooms in the downtown core of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located near the intersection of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive and designed in a French Gothic Revival Châteauesque style to complement the adjacent Parliament buildings.
Name Address Coordinates Government recognition (CRHP №) Image The Beggs House 2323 Roger Stevens Drive Ottawa (North Gower) ON : Ottawa (North Gower) municipality () : Upload Photo
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
Booth House is a prominent heritage building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada located at 252 Metcalfe Street, just south of Somerset in Downtown Ottawa.The house was built by lumber baron John R. Booth in 1906, and it was designed by John W.H. Watts, who did a number of other Ottawa buildings.