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Sculptor’s Entry Cabin to Walk at Laurier High School board (weekends only) walk

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Public Construction Zone Washrooms Monument

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Entry from Livingston Road

© 2019 10 Unique Sites at Guild Park & Gardens

❽ Greek Theatre: Guild Park’s landmark Welcome to Guild Park – Where Art ❸ The Clark Plaque: Recognizes the was built from the white marble columns and Meets Nature. Hundreds of fascinating life work ofInterest philanthropists Rosa and Spencer arches salvaged from the Bank of Toronto sights and stories await you on these 88 Clark. On this site, the couple founded the building (1914-1965). The bank’s design was Guild of All Arts in 1932. It evolved into their acres. Here are 10 of the most popular: inspired by the Paris stock market. The ornate popular Guild Inn, which closed in 2001.  Provincial Panels: The 12 sculpted building was replaced by the modern TD panels at Guild Park came from the Bank of ❹ Musidora: The oldest art piece on Centre. Canadian architect Ron Thom designed the Greek Theatre by repurposing Montreal building (1948-72) at King and Bay site. Sculpted in 1875 by Marshall Wood, it the fragments. It opened in 1982 on the 50th in Toronto. The bas-reliefs display the was inspired by a maiden in a Greek poem by anniversary of the Guild of All Arts. The stage dynamism and natural resources of ’s Ovid. Wood’s marble carvings are found continues to be used for live performances. provinces and territories. They were created worldwide, including his Queen Victoria th by some of Canada’s best sculptors of the 20 statue in ’s Parliamentary Library. Century. The panels at A are: and C Provincial Panels: This set of bas- Quebec, by ; B.C., by Jacobine ❺ The Bear: Carved here in 1979 by reliefs from the Bank of Montreal building Jones; and N.S., by Donald Stewart. Michael Clay, resident sculptor at the Guild of depicts Manitoba and Saskatchewan, by

All Arts, and his mentor, E.B. Cox. The figure is ; Alberta, by Jacobine ❷ Front Garden: Mixing modern art and a brown bear, though made of white Jones; and Arctic, by . neo-classic architecture. The four Ionic-style limestone. The rough surface shows how the columns are from Toronto’s Bankers Bond work was done with air-powered tools. ❾ “Pioneer” Log Cabin: Many stories building (1920-73) and based on the surround this cabin – most of them wrong Erechtheum Temple at Athens’ Acropolis. The ❻ Gates at the Bluffs: The red brick (including the nearby plaque). Studies date red sandstone façade was part of the Temple and stone gates preserve fragments of the this cabin to the 1850s, when the Humphrys, Building (1895-1970), home of the IOF, Produce Exchange Building (1890-1980). The an Irish family, farmed the site. The cabin was Independent Order of Foresters. It was once original pieces and capitals adorn the newer a studio for the Guild’s last resident sculptor, the tallest structure in Toronto and the British brickwork. The breath-taking vista from atop Elizabeth Fraser Williamson. Empire. The black steel triangle, Spaceplough the Scarborough Bluffs is some 60 metres (1981), is by renowned sculptor Sorel Etrog. (200 feet) above Lake Ontario. ❿ Clark Centre for the Arts: Built in

1963 as office/storage space for Spencer B Provincial Panels: Behind Guild ❼ Mobius Curve: Carved in 1982 from a Clark. The façade includes panels saved from Inn Estate is another set of four panels from 15-ton block of limestone by Guild resident the old Globe & Mail building on King Street. the Bank of Montreal: Newfoundland by sculptor Michael Clay. It depicts the one- This structure will reopen in 2020 for artist Donald Stewart; N.W.T., by Emanuel Hahn; sided geometric shape defined by German studios, exhibits P.E.I. and N.B., by Florence Wyle. mathematician August Möbius in 1858. and art classes.