works 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, Murdoch Mysteries, 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. Old City Hall appears in the 1981 children's book Jonathan Cleaned Up — Then He Heard a Sound (or Blackberry Subway Jam) by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko. However in the 1984 animated adaptation produced by the National Film Board, the location is Toronto's new city hall instead. See also Allegheny County Courthouse – influence for Lennox's City Hall design: both buildings have interior courtyards and a similar tower design List of tallest structures built before the 20th century References Further reading Dendy, William, and William Kilbourn. Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons, and History. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, 1986. Print. "Toronto's Edwardian Skyscraper Row" in JSSAC 40 - 2015 External links "Toronto's Old City Hall." City of Toronto Government buildings completed in 1899 Buildings and structures in Toronto City and town halls in Ontario Courthouses in Canada Clock towers in Canada Romanesque Revival architecture in Canada E. J. Lennox buildings Former seats of local government Terminating vistas in Canada City of Toronto Heritage Properties National Historic Sites in Ontario 1899 establishments in Ontario