Lieutenant Governor's Suite

Since 1937, Ontario's lieutenant governors have based their official duties at Queen's Park. A two-storey suite at the northwest corner of the Legislative Building houses the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. A handsome sandstone stairway leads to the Lieutenant Governor's suite, which includes four reception rooms, offices and support facilities. These rooms originally housed the Cabinet dining room and the Speaker's apartment, which is now located elsewhere in the building.

The hall features a grand staircase with a wrought iron balustrade. The oak hall table, console tables and crystal chandelier — one of five that grace the Suite — all come from Chorley Park. The large portrait of Upper Canada's first Lieutenant Governor (1792-96), John Graves Simcoe, painted posthumously by Sir Edmund Wyly Grier, is on loan from the Toronto Reference Library. Doorways lead to the lounge, drawing room and dining room.