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The Quadrangle or “Quad” at Massey college was modeled after Oxford in England. It remains a quiet, protected space from the hustle and bustle of the main University of Toronto Campus. The South façade of the Quad contains the public or common areas of the College while the other 3 sides are flanked with 5 Houses which are home to our Junior Fellowship. All windows within the houses face only inwards to the Quadrangle as you were approaching the building you likely noticed that there are not too many windows to the outside. The houses which all have entrances into the Quadrangle are not connected on any level but the basement or through the Quadrangle, when the weather is pleasant fellows will come and go through the Quad and during the cold winter months, the basement corridors are used to get from one house to another or to meals in the south block. There is a sculpture in the Quadrangle dedicated to Ursla Franklin who was a senior fellow and kept an office here at Massey. The Stone Bench near the entrance to the south block is constructed from Stone salvaged from a demolished portion of Baliol College in Oxford where Vincent Massey the College Founder was educated.
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