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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.