Horticulture Building (Toronto) 1907 and was designed by local architect G. W. Gouinlock in the Beaux-Arts style. It is a one-storey building, in the layout of an "E", with a large glass dome at the intersection of the wings. The glass dome is the site of the main entrance facing south. The wings extend to the east and west to the north. The site was previously the location of Toronto's Crystal Palace building, an exhibition hall fashioned after the design of the Crystal Palace in London, England. Toronto's Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire on October 18, 1906, spread by sparks from a
Second Great Fire of London the London Fire Brigade described the scene that faced the fire fighters: St Paul’s Cathedral and the immediate area was struck by twenty-eight incendiary bombs. Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent the message that "St Paul’s must be saved at all costs". A famous photograph, "St Paul's Survives", was taken from the roof of the "Daily Mail" building (Northcliffe House, Carmelite Street) by Herbert Mason. Mason was the chief photographer at the Daily Mail. He was on the roof firewatching when he took the picture. Mason described the moment he created the photograph - The camera is believed to have been