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==Structure & Architecture== | ==Structure & Architecture== | ||
The Haultain Building is built on a small foundation of approximately seventy square feet (twenty-one square meters). It is built in an Edwardian style, and made of red brick in the original facade. The 1931 expansion, which added several floors, built on the same architectural style but included more prominent window and column structures on the facade. | The Haultain Building is built on a small foundation of approximately seventy square feet (twenty-one square meters). It is built in an Edwardian style, and made of red brick in the original facade. The 1931 expansion, which added several floors, built on the same architectural style but included more prominent window and column structures on the facade.<ref>L.W. Richards, ''University of Toronto: An Architectural Tour'', Princeton Architectural Press (New York: 2009).</ref> | ||
Although the Haultain Building, when completed in 1903, was the only comparable building on its site and was the vanguard of an early westward expansion by the University of Toronto, it has since been overshadowed and surrounded on all four sides by other buildings including the [[Mining Building]] (completed 1905) to its south, the [[Rosebrugh Building]] (completed 1920) to its east, and the [[Mechanical Engineering Building]] to its north (as the Thermodynamics Building completed in 1909) and its west (completed in 1948). A bridge connecting to the [[Mining Building]] was later constructed. | |||