Galbraith Building

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Named after the first professor of Engineering at the University of Toronto, the Galbraith Building is one of them many homes of the Faculty of Engineering. The story goes that when fellow upper classmen tried to haze John Galbraith he met them at the door to his room holding a sword in one hand and a dagger in the other. Outside the front door, the frequently defaced Robert Murray sculpture "Becca's H" can be found. The Galbraith building is host to the central offices of the Faculty, and continues the 'Skule' tradition (the purposefully mispelled name derives from the original building which hosted the School of Practical Science; a three-storied edifice known as the little red 'school'house). Demolition of the original Skulehouse was begun in 1966 to make room for the Galbraith Building. The original 'School of Practical Science' frieze from the 1878 structure can now be found embedded in the north wall of the Galbraith Building's main entrance.