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Since its founding in 1829, Upper Canada College (UCC), in Toronto, Ontario, has occupied a number of sites and various structures on those sites. The school campus has always held a relatively prominent place within the city. ==1829 to 1891== The College was founded in 1829 by then-Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, Major-General Sir John Colborne (later, Lord Seaton). Originally, the College was situated in the Royal Grammar School, known as the Old Blue School, at College Square: bound by Church, Adelaide, Jarvis and Richmond Streets.〔Howard, Richard; ''Upper Canada College, 1829-1979: Colborne's Legacy''; Macmillan Company of Canada; 1979; pg. 10〕 This was a simple two-storey, wood frame with clapboard siding building, with six-over-six paned windows and a pitched roof. John Strachan had it painted blue and white, which remain UCC's colours to this day. However, this was a temporary location; the Board of Education of Upper Canada had been planning on a more permanent locale since before the school opened its doors. Initially they eyed Peter Street near the then end of King Street, but Colborne desired it to be at Russel Square, between King, Simcoe, Adelaide and John Streets; Colborne's location was accepted, and tenders for construction of the new College buildings were put out in May 1830.〔 The costs of the buildings were originally slated at £10,000, but the cost was eventually estimated to be double that amount. In ''Lost Toronto'', William Dendy wrote: ::"All the UCC buildings were of red brick. Only the main block had much architectural pretension, with its large porch supported on stone piers and the windows ornamented with flat, ledge-like architraves supported on scrolled consoles.... The centre block measured wide and deep and contained offices and classrooms opening off a central hall on both floors; in the northwest corner of the second floor there was a "prayer room", with a dais for the master and box pews for each of the seven forms...." By the 1870s, with an enrolment of 300, the school was outgrowing the 1831 buildings. A $40,000 expenditure for expansion of the original structures was approved by the province for twelve classrooms, a public hall, a room for the principal, and beds for 60 more borders. The improvements were complete by April 1877, with the centre block expanded and its main facade altered to more of a Queen Anne style blended with a modified Elizabethan. Two story brick piers enhanced the corners and framed tall narrow windows, with the main entrance protruding forward, flanked by banded columns, more typical of Jacobean style. An octagonal cupola surmounted the main entrance volume, surrounded by narrow pinnacles topping the corner piers, which all concealed chimneys and ventilation openings. The eclectic mix of different styles was typical of the overall concept of Victorian architecture. By 1880, the College already again needed expansion of the boarding houses, and a gymnasium was necessary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Architecture of Upper Canada College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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