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Light Blue Room, Fall Foliage

Light blue room with a white painted stripe and window overlooking fall foliage. Acoustic tile ceiling is visible.

Cindy Scott in the Sound Room

Cindy Scott speaking into a microphone on a tripod in a green Sound Room.

Detail of Brick Wall with Peeling Paint

A detail of a brick wall with multiple layers of peeling paint. The colours include light pink, light green, yellow, and white. The brick itself is visible in spots underneath all the layers.

A small round inground pool with steel handrails behind a glass wall that is divided into six rectangular panels. A bright yellow spinal board can be seen behind the glass wall in the pool room. The walls in the pool room are cream painted cinderblock with a bright red stripe around the top. The floor around the pool is white tiling. Light in the pool room comes from a window directly in front.

Empty Indoor Pool on the Huronia Site

Empty indoor inground pool on the Huronia site. Points of access into the pool include a ramp with steel rails, and a ramp with steel rails leading to two steps. The walls are cream painted cinderblock with a bright red strip around the top. There is a fish decoration hanging from the ceiling and various signs on the walls such as "CAUTION NO DIVING" in red text on white and "POOL RULES" in red text on white with the pool rules in black. Light in the pool room comes from a window in the left of the frame.

Glazed Brick Hallway with Terrazzo Floor

Huronia site hallway with glazed brick walls in a soft autumn palette on the bottom half of and light yellow paint on the top half. There are rectangular beige radiator panels at around twelve foot intervals on the glazed brick tiles. There are windows at around six foot intervals on the yellow painted walls. The windows reach the ceiling, which is white acoustic drop tiles with long fluorescent lights. The floor is terrazzo. There is a sign in black text on white on the yellow wall where the writing is illegible except for "Health Services/Infirmary"

Detail of a Dutch Door with Slide Bolt

Details of a metal Dutch door painted white, with a steel slide bolt between door portions and a steel knob and key cylinder on the lower portion. The paint is chipped and worn on the lip of the bottom portion of the door.

Padlocked Window

A photograph of an outside building taken from inside an adjacent building. The photograph is taken through a window with a padlock on the windowsill. Visible outside is a red brick building with a brown door, some windows, and a few cement walkways.

Damaged Green Heart on Blue Wall

Detail of a slate blue wall with a green heart stencil-painted on it. The heart is peeling in spots down to the drywall. There is a nail hole in the centre of the heart and two number 8s in pencil in the heart.

Avalon Sign

Black sign on white wall that reads "AVALON" in stencil letters.

Mural of Fancy Victorian Mansion

A mural of a fancy brick Victorian mansion with dormer windows. Two of the upper floors feature wraparound balconies with chairs, love seats and flowers. The first floor balcony has many tables and chairs and is populated by two women, one is reading. In the foreground is a well tended garden and a red pathway leading to the mansion. A woman in a red ribbon-trimmed hat and a long red dress stand with her back to the viewer. There is a wooden and wrought iron bench to the left of her.

Dark Room with Sink, Fall Foliage

A dark room with yellow walls. There are some murals on the walls that look like sea plants and flowers. The floor is grey linoleum. There is white acoustic tile drop ceiling with fluorescent light boxes. In the left back corner of the room is a sink with countertop and cupboards, with a set of cupboards attached to the wall above it. The back wall is fully windowed and the fall foliage is visible outside.

Detail of Damaged Cement Wall with Pipes

Detail of a cement wall with chipped beige paint and pipes running alongside it on the Huronia site. There is one pipe that is copper and the others are coated in plastic. An aluminum ladder leans against the wall. The lighting is fluorescent.

Mural of Jesus and Children on Chapel Doors

Mural of Jesus and children on the light blue chapel doors. Jesus is wearing white robes with a blue, red and green sash and has his arms outstretched, with his right hand in a beckoning gesture. There is a shining sun in the mural and the words "Thank You, God." A poster on the right door features buildings and construction workers and the phone number for Infrastructure Ontario's Property Services.

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Buildings from a window. Window overlooks a parking lot. Also visible from the window is a covered hallway from this building to the next, which is a large red brick building with white framed windows.

Chairs

Seven chairs facing forward. In background, from left to right: child's white chipped wood classroom chair; large wooden presidential chair with decorative back; child's blue-painted wood classroom chair; oak wood office chair on casters with sloping wrap-around arms; tall cherry wood chair. In foreground: child's pine wood classroom chair, cherry wood arm-less office chair on casters.

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