TULLY, Kivas

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Media Type: Newspaper
Description: Colour magazine clipping of biographical portrait TULLY, Kivas

Architect and engineer for the Province
Built many public buildings including St. Catharines City Hall, now the Court House

Born in Ireland in 1820, came to Canada in 1844
Died 1905

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Notes: File number: 16.pt3.24-1.1
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Subject(s): Periodicals
Portrait photographs
Black-and-white photographs
Language of Item: English
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Kivas Tully

1820-1905

Victoria Hall is considered to be the masterwork of the Irish born architect, Kivas Tully.

His earlier commissions had in-cluded the original Trinity College on Queen Street, near Shaw, in Toronto, and his plans for Victoria Hall won the competition for a Cobourg Town Hall design.

The cornerstone was laid on 30th December, 1856, and the building was opened on 7th September, 1860.