A view of the Library of Parliament as seen from Major's Hill Park at sunset. The library is located at the back (north side) of the Centre Block on Parliament Hill. The library was spared from a disastrous fire which destroyed the original Centre Block in 1916 and, along with East Block, is one of the two buildings on Parliament Hill to have survived mostly intact since construction.
Designed in Victorian High Gothic style by Thomas Fuller and Chilean Jones, and inspired by the British Museum Reading Room in Bloomsbury, the Library of Parliament was completed in 1876, ten years after the completion of Centre Block to which it is connected by a corridor. The Library of Parliament underwent a $52 million renovation between 2002 and 2006.
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