page_title: Old City Hall (Toronto)
section_title: Appearances in cultural works
hierarchical_section_title: Old City Hall (Toronto) / Appearances in cultural works
caption_attribution_description: This giant red ball has been moving around Toronto as part of the Luminato arts festival, attracting swarms of photographers everywhere it goes. Photographed at the entrance of Old City Hall, Toronto, Canada.
context_page_description: The Old City Hall is a Romanesque-style civic building and court house in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the home of the Toronto City Council from 1899 to 1966 and remains one of the city's most prominent structures.
  The building is located at the corner of Queen and Bay Streets, across Bay Street from Nathan Phillips Square and the present City Hall in Downtown Toronto. The heritage landmark has a distinctive clock tower which heads the length of Bay Street from Front Street to Queen Street as a terminating vista. Old City Hall was designated a National Historic Site in 1984.
context_section_description: Artist William Armstrong painted a watercolour painting of Old City Hall prior to its completion. The building features prominently in the novel Old City Hall, by Robert Rotenberg. For the 2009 Luminato arts festival, artist Kurt Perschke brought Redball Project to Toronto and temporarily installed a giant red ball in locations around Toronto's downtown core, including inside the central arch of the main entrance to Old City Hall.
  In terms of popular culture, the building is sometimes used to film movies and television shows, such as This is Wonderland, Flashpoint, Street Legal, Covert Affairs, and Dirty Pictures.  Interiors of the space can be seen in the trial scenes near the end of the 1999 film The Boondock Saints.
caption: Children pose by one of Kurt Perschke's Redball Project installations in the central arch of the Queen Street main entrance to Old City Hall in 2009.
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