It is located at the corner of Douglas Street and Pandora Avenue adjacent to the CTV Vancouver Island studios and the McPherson Playhouse in downtown Victoria.

[1][2] Architect John Teague designed Victoria's City Hall, which is considered "one of the best surviving examples of Second Empire-style public architecture in Western Canada."

The earliest surviving municipal hall has a foot 105 tall Gillet and Johnson clock tower, three types of façades, tall windows, pedimented dormer windows and a metal mansard roof.

The Second Empire style reflects a change in the design and construction of governmental buildings, intended to symbolize the government's growth and power.

[2] City Hall is a landmark in Victoria's Old Town District that in 1963 was nearly razed to make way for the Centennial Square, but is now an important historical building there.