A Palace For Horses
This is one of the entrances to the Horse Palace at Exhibition Place. This heritage Art Deco beauty opened in 1931 to support the equestrian events at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and still today houses a private riding academy and provides space for the horses of the mounted unit of the Toronto Police. There are wonderful carvings in the limestone over the doors which may be a bit hard to make out in this pic. I'll show you a close-up of some tomorrow.
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16 comments:
I like the design of this building. It does make a statement.
Hello, it is a beautiful building. The mounted horses have a nice place to live. Happy Wednesday, enjoy your day!
that is a very fancy building for a riding academy. It must be well supported. Look forward to a closer look at the carving over the door.
...mighty fancy for fancy horses!
Wonderful design!
They knew how to build magnificent buildings back in those days. What a beautiful place.
This is a magnificent building. That tower and those columns, I just love it!
Oh that is wonderful
I know there's something similar to this in Versailles, France. Quite incredible that such a structure is dedicated to our equine friends. It's a good thing, though, and I would love to see more of it ... perhaps the stables?
I've always loved this building
Classy stables.
What an elaborate building, very nice Pat.
Wonderful.
Fabulous building Pat, not only because it's Art Deco 😉 those lucky horses 😀
This is really special! I'm betting the horses love it too!
Those horses are coddled, aren't they?
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