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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-551-4 Details and BIG Picture | Court House (Built: 1911) Constructed in 1911, this building housed the Supreme and District Courts until 1972, when it was sold to Woodwards and demolished for the construction of Edmonton Centre. This Greek templelike building had a sandstone exterior and granite foundation. The interior showed a classical elegance with Greek columns, a marble staircase, and skylight. The four court rooms in the upper gallery were oak panelled. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-500-352 Details and BIG Picture | Tegler Building (Built: 1911) The Tegler Building was built in 1911 by Edmonton entrepreneur and philanthropist, Robert Tegler. Designed by H. A. Magoon, the Tegler Building was known to be one of the earliest reinforced concrete buildings in Alberta, and the first fireproof office building in Edmonton. The stone used for its construction was quarried from a rock coulee near Fort MacLeod. An eight-storey addition was constructed in 1913 to accommodate the expansion of James Ramsey`s department store, which remained here until 1929. The Tegler Building is clad in red brick and white stone, with the entablature and other detailing of pressed tin. Primarily Classical in its detailing, it is representative of the transition to the Sullivanesque modern era and achieves a balance in horizontals and verticals. Some of the Classical detailing includes corner quoins, pilasters, and a two-storey balcony with engaged Ionic columns and a balustrade which accents the upper floors. Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_A20_3_19 Details and BIG Picture | Tower Mortgage (Built: 1912) One of Jasper Avenue`s oldest buildings was demolished in 1993. City council`s executive committee decided Wednesday to abandon a last-minute attempt to save the 81-year-old Canadian Pacific Railways building, at 10012 Jasper Ave. by giving it a historical designation. It will allow an application to proceed to put up a two-storey retail handbag store on the site. Architect Doug McConnell said the owner could ask council for a grant or tax concessions if stone columns hidden under the 1969 facade need expensive restoration. When Hops handbags took possession of the ground floor retail space and renovations on the 3rd-5th floor exterior exposed the original features cast in grandure black granite with outstanding pilliars that will be lost forever. Share your stories with us |
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 EA-330-10 Details and BIG Picture | Wesley United Church (Built: 1912) The former Wesley United Church and Sunday School, built in 1912, came tumbling down at 10176 117th St. "I'm personally sad to see it go," says a heritage planner with the City of Edmonton. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-10-2333 Details and BIG Picture | Royal Alexandra Hospital (Built: 1912) Built at a cost of $225,000, this building replaced the old Public Hospital on Boyle Street (now 103A Avenue). In 1918, a west wing was added to the left to complete the initial expansion plans. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-263-27 Details and BIG Picture | Cross House (Built: 1912) This Tudor-style mansion, designed by Scottish architect J. Henderson, was built in 1912 by C. W. Cross, Alberta`s first Attorney-General. The Cross family occupied this residence until Mrs. Cross` death in 1928. Judge T. L. Cross, who grew up in the house, recalled that the furniture and fireplaces were brought from England and the large unused attic was "big enough to hold half a regiment". The house was a residence until the late 1940`s when it was divided into apartments. In 1976, Letourneau Developments purchased the site with the intention of building a housing development. In August of that year a fire gutted the house and it was subsequently demolished. In 1977, Letourneau Developments built ten single family houses on the site. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-338-75 Details and BIG Picture | Shaw Mansion (Built: 1913) In 1913, Harry V. Shaw built his new mansion and a year later constructed the Shaw Block for his cigar factory. Designed and built by Magoon and MacDonald, the house was finished with white oak and dark mahogany panelling, with imported furnishings from France and Italy and hand painted linen wallpaper. The plaster ceiling design in the library was reminiscent of many renaissance palaces in Europe. Chandeliers and door knobs were made of cut glass. The depressed wartime economy forced the Shaw family to vacate in 1919. In 1938, Ernest Poole, founder of Poole Construction, bought the house. A large verandah, which covered two sides of the house and accommodated a balcony on the second floor, was removed by Mr. Poole. The house was used as a residence and boarding house until 1966 when Mr. A. Coyne purchased it for a residence. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-10-205 Details and BIG Picture | Civic Block (Built: 1913) In 1913 the City of Edmonton constructed the Civic Block at a cost of $225,000. Although it was designed to be a temporary office building that could easily convert to stores and warehouses, it served as City Hall until 1957. In contrast to today`s civic administration, all city departments were housed in this single structure. In 1962, the building was renovated and expanded to accommodate Police Headquarters at a cost of $886,000. The original brick and terra cotta exterior is now covered in aluminum and glass cladding. Originally a dominant feature of market square, it is now diminished by the larger, surrounding buildings and its own alterations. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-118-82 Details and BIG Picture | Pantages Theatre (Built: 1913) Built in 1913 by Alexander Pantages and George Brown, the Pantages Vaudeville Theatre hosted such great entertainers as the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and others. In 1931, the theatre was renamed The Strand. Premier William Aberhart broadcast his Sunday sermons from its stage in the 1930`s. The theatre was known for its remarkable Italian Renaissance interior. Alexander Pantages used Italian and Greek marble throughout, trimmed with bronze and bevelled glass. The walls were panelled with damask figured silk and the decoration was punctuated with detailed use of gilt and plaster works. Although the building was designated a Provincial Historic Site in 1976, it was dismantled in 1979 by the First Northern Building Corporation, who had purchased the site twenty years earlier. During demolition, plaster figurines were removed and molds of the interior were made with the intention of reconstructing the theatre in Fort Edmonton Park. Batoni-Bowlen Enterprises Ltd. purchased the site for the InterProvincial Pipeline Building which was completed in 1981. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-551-9 Details and BIG Picture | CPR Station (First used: 1913) The first passenger train to use the new Edmonton station was the Great West Express which departed for Wetaskiwin, Camrose, Saskatoon and Winnipeg on September 2, 1913 - service which was to last until June 1960. Passenger service to the station was withdrawn in October 1972 when South Edmonton became the terminus for the Calgary Dayliner service. The building was demolished in 1978. The two-storey structure was 72 feet square, with a one-storey 72 x 90 foot wing to the north which was later extended by 50 feet. It cost $200,000 and was built of reinforced concrete which was cast in place. After World War Two, it was stuccoed and painted a pink/beige colour. For a number of years there was a circular driveway between the front of the station with an attractive flower bed inside its circumference. Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_A9_2_10a Details and BIG Picture | Ballmoral Block (Built: 1913) Property originally owned by: Dr A.A Nichols & M. Reynolds; Architect was: E.C Hopkins; Contractor was: Reed, MacDonald and Brewster; Cost to construct: 1912 estimates: $40,000.00; Constructed of brick and Bedford stone. Main floor was retail and the upper floors were self contained apt suites. Currently this site is a "parking lot". Boston Pizza opened a new franchise in the old Healy Ford dealership building at 10620 Jasper Ave. in 1996. Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_B31_3_13 Details and BIG Picture | Civic Block, Renovated (Built: 1913) The Civic Block was built in 1913 to house city council chambers. In 1962, the police took over the building as their headquarters. Aluminum and glass cladding installed on the building in the 1960s cover up its original brick and terra cotta facade. The Civic Block was unused for many years before being demolised to make room for the new Winspear Concert Hall. Share your stories with us |
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 EA-62-315 Details and BIG Picture | Lessard House (Built: 1913) The 93-year-old Lessard House at 11936 100th Ave., with its red- brick walls and turreted roof, was torn down in 2006. The house was built by P. Edmond Lessard in 1913. Lessard served as a provincial MLA and senator. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-356-1 Details and BIG Picture | Edmonton Gardens (Built: 1913) Built in 1913 and originally the home of the Edmonton Eskimos (who lost in the Stanley Cup finals in both 1908 and 1910) it would later be the home rink for Alberta senior champion Edmonton Flyers, Edmonton Oil Kings and the Edmonton Oilers from 1972 - 1974 (when they were part of the WHA). It was demolished in 1974 after the Northlands Coliseum was opened, now the site of the Edmonton Agricom. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-160-1522 Details and BIG Picture | Jesuit College / Charles Camsell Hospital (Built: 1913) Bishop Legal of St. Albert requested that the College be built, it was completed in 1913 on land donated by John Norris and Joseph Scott. During World War II it was given to the American Army to support their efforts in building a highway to Alaska, during that time it was known as the Northwest Service Command Headquarters . When the highway was completed in 1944 the building was returned to the Canadian Government. After renovations were completed in 1945 the Department of Veterans Affairs used it and it was known as the Jesuit College Hospital. In 1946 it was used by the Indian Health Service for use as a tuberculosis hospital, during this phase the building became known as the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital. The building was a regular hospital at the time of its demolition in July of 1967, shortly after everything was moved into the new Charles Camsell Hospital. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-597-63 Details and BIG Picture | Allin House (Built: 1914) This Tudor-Victorian house was built in 1914 by the Pearce Brothers, building contractors. From 1920 to 1922, the Honourable George Smith, Provincial Minister of Education, resided here. Dr. Frank W. Crang purchased the house in 1922, and it became the residence of the Allin family in the 1940`s after Dr. Crang`s daughter married Dr. Eardley Allin, a prominent Edmonton general practitioner. The Allins occupied this house until it was sold to the University in 1968. The house was demolished, as were others in the area, for a University parking lot. In 1971 the Law Building was constructed on the Allin House site. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-62-332 Details and BIG Picture | Primrose House (Built: 1914) This California-style bungalow was completed in 1914, and was first occupied by Judge Alexander Andrews McGillivary, who sat on the Supreme Court for the Provincial Government. His son, Chief Justice William A. McGillivary, resided here with his family until 1920, when Lieutenant-Governor Philip C. Primrose moved in. It was later occupied by the Lieutenant-Governor`s son, Justice Neil Primrose. In 1973 the Primrose family vacated the house. Three years later Bell-Spotowski Architects Ltd. bought the house and used it for offices until 1979, when it was demolished. In 1981 Park Place apartments were built on this site, copying the brick pedestals of the Primrose House at the front entrance of the complex. Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_B2_7_1a Details and BIG Picture | Burns Packing Plant (Built: 1915) Prior to 1915 Burns had two seperate processing-retail outlets in Edmonton. The first was on Jasper Avenue, while the second was south of Whyte Ave. Burns had vacated the plant in 1980 and moved their operations to 5012 - 76 Ave. Currently this site is known as the "BURNS" Lot which accomadates Edmonton transit shuttle patrons who park there. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives ET-17-111 Details and BIG Picture | Capitol Theatre (Built: 1917) In 1917, Famous Players built the Capitol Theatre, the first silent movie house in Edmonton. When the silent film era closed in 1929, sound equipment was installed. The entire theatre was remodelled in 1938, including installation of the theatre`s famous 2,000 light marquee, the largest in Western Canada. Smoke Shops Ltd. and Kline`s Jewellery Store shared the ground floor with the theatre from 1917 until its demolition. In 1972, Famous Players demolished the Capitol along with the Agency and the Monarch Buildings to make way for the 22-storey Capitol Square Theatre and office complex, completed in 1975. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-10-579 Details and BIG Picture | Johnstone Walker`s Store (Photo: 1917) Do you know this building? Were you ever there? Do you know its history? Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-266-135 Details and BIG Picture | Marshal Wells Building (Built: 1919) The Marshall-Wells Alberta Company commenced business in Edmonton, July, 1912, by purchasing the wholesale hardware business of Ross Bros., Limited, and the Sommerville Hardware Company, this being their first start in the hardware jobbing business in Alberta, from which they have steadily grown to their now immense proportions. The business has advanced remarkably since the time of its incorporation, and in 1919 it was found necessary to build premises to handle the ever-increasing business and the new building in which they are now situated, is the finest hardware structure in the Dominion of Canada. Combined with their branches in Western Canada, they comprise the principal wholesale hardware distribuutors in the Dominion of Canada. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-10-354 Details and BIG Picture | Bank of Nova Scotia (Photo: 1920) Do you know this building? Were you ever there? Do you know its history? Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-246-137 Details and BIG Picture | Edmonton Journal Building (Built: 1921) The Journal Building stand prominently at the top of Bellamy Hill at 101 Street. The Edmonton Journal moved its newspaper business to this location when its four-storey building was completed in 1921. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives A98-103 Details and BIG Picture | Edmonton Public Library (Opened: 1923) Jointly funded by the Andrew Carnegie Corporation of New York and the City of Edmonton, this grand French Renaissance structure with Italian detailing was for more than 40 years the main branch of the Edmonton Public Library. It overlooked the North Saskatchewan River valley from a perch just north of Macdonald Drive and west of 99th Street. The Board commissioned local architects Herbert Alton Magoon and George Heath MacDonald to prepare plans for a reinforced concrete and steel fireproof building "costing not more than $150,000." Constructed of cream coloured terr-cotta clay brick and Bedford stone, the central entrances were flanked by four fluted Doric columns, topped with copper trim and red tile roofing. Interior finishes included Caen stone, terrazzo tile and marble. The central portion of the main floor was crowned by a massive skylight measuring 65 feet by 24 feet, carried on Ionic columns. Large windows on all sides made for superb natural light penetration. The building even boasted a central vacuum system. Poole Construction got the contract to erect the structure -- the first project for a new Edmonton company started by Ernest Poole, and which today has evolved to become the massive firm PCL. Work commenced in late 1922 and was completed the following summer. The new building was officially opened on August 30th, 1923, amid much pomp and circumstance. Premier Herbert Greenfield and former Premier Alexander Rutherford both spoke at the ceremony. A little more than 40 years later, Edmonton's grand house of books was deemed too small and construction began on a new library which opened September 30, 1967 and was called the Centennial. Poole Construction, the company that built the 1923 library, was selected to demolish it and that happened in 1969. Poole Construction then built the AGT Tower (now the Telus Tower) on the same site, beginning in 1970. (Text credit: Lawrence Herzog – Edmonton Real Estate Weekly – Sept 27, 2007) Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_A44_3_11 Details and BIG Picture | Bissell United Church (Built: 1923) This building had various uses: 1923 -1932 McQueen Institute - Sunday School; 1933- 1936 All Peoples Church; 1937 - 1965 The T.E Memorial Institute and the Bissell Memorial United Church; 1965 - 1991 Bissell Church and drop in center, by 1992 the building was vacant. Currently this site is used for parking for the #1 Fire station. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-122-38 Details and BIG Picture | Woodward`s Department Store (Opened: 1926) The old Woodward`s department store stands proudly fitted with flags and bunting, ready to celebrate the royal visit. While Sam Cherniak sells popcorn to passersby on the 102 Avenue corner, the new Eaton`s department store is in the midst of construction on the other side of 101 Street. The building shown here includes the original Woodward`s store, which opened on this site on October 15, 1926, and the three additional bays built onto the north, nearest the Royal George Hotel, in 1929 and 1932. By September, 1940, fourth and fifth storeys were added as well. In June, 1974, the building was demolished to be replaced by the new Edmonton Centre complex. Share your stories with us |
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 EA-314-01 Details and BIG Picture | Edmonton City Dairy (Built: 1928) From 1928 until 1977 the eight-ton, 10-metre-tall bottle sat on the roof of Edmonton City Dairy on 109 Street, north of Jasper Avenue. The milk bottle was so big and so white that bush pilots would actually use it to steer by as their planes approached the Municipal Airport. Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_A25_4_13 Details and BIG Picture | Metropolitan Building (Built: 1929) Was built to accomodate low priced everyday items and was dubbed "The Met" it featured a lunch counter. The building was extended in 1938 after a fire gutted the interior. This building was re-designed and upgraded in 1962 to reflect the modern trends of the time. The "Met" vacated the property in the early 1980`s and the building remained unchanged until it was converted into offices and then bought in 1996-97 to be re-developed. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-624-10 Details and BIG Picture | Eaton`s Mail Order Warehouse (Built: 1929) The T. Eaton Co. Limited Mail Order Building was the first building constructed specifically for the T. Eaton Company in Edmonton, and pre-dates the 101 Street department store by ten years. The building was completed in November, 1929 and was designed by Magoon and MacDonald of Edmonton. Eaton`s acquired the land in what contemporary sources termed as "the largest land deal in Edmonton`s history". This building originally stocked only heavy goods and machinery. The Mail Order Building is a rectangular, two-storey structure of steel and reinforced concrete sheathed in buff-coloured brick and ivory buff Tyndall limestone. The flat roof is bordered by a parapet and stone cornice decorated with dentils. All ground floor window openings are flat-headed, while the upper storey exhibits a rhythmic fenestration of triple round-arched windows. Share your stories with us |
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 Real Estate Weekly HowardMcBride Details and BIG Picture | Howard and McBride's Funeral Parlour (Opened: 1929) When Howard & McBride opened their new funeral parlour in July 1929, the Edmonton Bulletin newspaper proclaimed it to be, "the last word in arrangements for comfort." The new building at 10045 109th Street was designed specifically as a funeral chapel for Thomas Wilfred "Mac" McBride and R.F. Howard, funeral service partners since 1921. Like many of Edmonton's earliest movers and shakers, McBride came in the first years of the new century, drawn by the promise of opportunity. McBride arrived initially in 1907, stayed for some 18 months and then returned in 1912 to work for Connelly-McKinley Funeral Home. In 1914, McBride began working for Howard, who operated a furniture and hardware store on Jasper Avenue between 106th and 107th Streets and a funeral removal service. McBride, who came to be known as "Mac," assumed responsibility for funeral arrangements and services and Howard attended to his stores. Fleeing what at the time was called "Edmonton's high rent district," the two entrepreneurs decided to shift from their 107th Street funeral home location. In 1927, they purchased a vacant lot on the east side of 109th Street, just south of Jasper Avenue. They hired renowned Edmonton architects George Heath MacDonald and Herbert Magoon to design what was to become one of the finest funeral facilities in western Canada. Their company, Magoon and MacDonald, were Edmonton's dynamic duo of architecture for many years earlier this century. Together and working separately, the two architects gave Edmonton such buildings as the Tegler Building (1911; demolished 1982), the Methodist Theological St. Stephen's Building (1911) and the Public Library (1922; demolished 1968). Culling inspiration from the Spanish school of architecture, Magoon and MacDonald used stone for the facing, clay tiles for the roof and appointed the interior with sumptuous finishes. The Edmonton Bulletin, in its June 22nd, 1929 edition, reported that Magoon and MacDonald drew the plans "after a close study of other institutions of the kind in Eastern Canada and the United States." The building featured an air conditioned 135-room chapel (with room for expansion to 175) and four slumber rooms ("where relatives may view their departed ones"). The chapel boasted Edmonton's first Casavant pipe organ. According to the Edmonton Bulletin, the firm was the first in the west to introduce the limousine type of ambulance and funeral coach and leave behind the old style black hearse. Out back, the new structure boasted a garage to house their new limousines. The new home of Howard & McBride offered high visibility and excellent proximity to transportation services, and their arrival solidified the area's growing reputation as the city's "dead centre of town." Howard & McBride joined the Connelly-McKinley Funeral Home & Crematorium, which had opened in 1926 just a half block south on 109th Street. In 1932, Alexander Andrews and his two sons William and Robert opened their Anrews Brothers funeral home at 11206 Jasper Avenue. George McLaughlin and his Don, hardware store operators in Wetaskiwin and Tofield and undertakers in Tofield, assumed ownership in July 1940. The firm name was changed to Andrews-McLaughlin Funeral Chapel Ltd. But back to Howard & McBride. "The new structure will be the finest in the west and is arranged to give the best economic service to those who come to us in time of need," Mac McBride was quoted as telling an Edmonton Bulletin reporter. Over the next 59 years, the Howard & McBride Funeral Home was a place of goodbyes for thousands of Edmontonians. In 1947, McBride's son Paul joined the company. He retired as president in 1988. That same year, the company was purchased by Arbour Memorial Services of Toronto. The new owners amalgamated Howard & McBride with Roy and Owen's Chapel of Chimes on 108th Street and 102nd Avenue and so the old building on 109th Street was abandoned. Even into his twilight years, Mac McBride was still active and, in 1978, when he was 90, he would occasionally drive in a funeral procession. Mr. McBride passed away in 1980 at the age of 92. His old funeral home found new life as a restaurant - as have so many other historic funeral homes across the continent. The generous ceilings and solid materials make such buildings good candidates for conversion. Over the last several years, the venerable structure has been a Club Malibu and Club 109 and endures as one of Edmonton's most intriguing buildings. History tells us that it does indeed have a story to die for. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-275-66 Details and BIG Picture | Foster & McGarvey Funeral Home (Built: 1929) Do you know this building? Were you ever there? Do you know its history? Share your stories with us |
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 EA-275-1586 Details and BIG Picture | Varscona Theatre (Built: 1940) The Varscona Theatre, at Whyte Avenue and 109th Street, described as an example of the developed Moderne style, was demolished in 1987 to make way for a credit union branch. Share your stories with us |
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 Edmonton Journal LieutenantGovernoResidence Details and BIG Picture | Lieutenant-Governor's Residence (Built: 1950) This ranch style bungalow was built as a private residence in 1950. Known for its fieldstone fireplaces it was designed by architect John Rule. John Rule's other designs include the Glenora School, University's Rutherford Library and Faculty Club, AGT Tower, Royal Glenora, and Mayfair Golf & Country Club. The house was purchased by the province in 1966 for $95,000. Grant MacEwan was the first lieutenant-governor to live in the residence, Bud Olson was the last (he moved out in 2000). Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_B21_1_16a Details and BIG Picture | U of A Hospital (Built: 1951) This was the U of A`s last original 1950`s wing to be demolished. Built by W.C. Wells Construction of Edmonton at a cost of two and a half million. Built to accomadate Central Foor Servery providing 3000 meals daily to the entire hospital except the Col.Mewburn wing. In addition, this wing accomadated the growing needs of the pediatrics maternity, ophthalmology department, as well as the obstetrics, mental reception unit with 20 beds, labs for clinical research and the central surgical supply unit, two lecture for clinical instrucion theatres and the in patient admitting department was located here. Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_A20_2_21a Details and BIG Picture | Royal Trust (Built: 1953) Built to accomodate growing needs of Royal Trust Company. The building featured structual steel, concrete floors, granite facing, pre-cast terrazo panels, bording the windows with aluminum frame casting. To date there is an arcade type wall connecting Alberta College, Telus Plaza Towers and the Union Bank Inn. Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_B8_2_22 Details and BIG Picture | Sun Building (Built: 1954) Was built to accomadate various independant retail businesses with a cafeteria in the basement. First tenants included McNeill Moving Storage and Martin Senour Co. In 1962 Alberta municipal affairs occupied the majority of this building to accomadate the Alberta Housing and Urban Renewal office and hundreds of other provincial agencies. By 1986 Alberta Fish and Wildlife, Alberta Manpower Career Services, Training and Apprentice, Resource Library, occupied the building. In 1988 it was vacated and torn down to make way for an expanded public parking on this lot. Share your stories with us |
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 City of Edmonton Archives EA-20-990 Details and BIG Picture | City Hall (Built: 1956) Designed by architect Maxwell Dewar, Edmonton`s City Hall has 130,000 square feet of floor space. The City of Edmonton had already abandoned the old Civic Block constructed adjacent to market square in 1912 in favour of a new city hall built in 1956. The new city hall, located a block north and west of the old Civic Block, was the first building in a new civic centre plan. The new building featured a fountain designed by Lionel Thomas that was meant to suggest a flight of Canada geese but has been referred to as "the spaghetti tree." Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_A45_7_9 Details and BIG Picture | Bentall Building (Built: 1960) Designed by: Neil. C. McKernan; Owner-developer: H.Clarke Bentall - past president of Dominion Construction. Mr Bentall was also responsible for the construction of the Woolworth`s building and several other retail stores that were constructed along 102 Street south of 102 Avenue. This building consisted of 175,000 square feet of office space that was largely the head office for the Bentall group of companies. It cost $750,000.00 to build. Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_A64_4_24a Details and BIG Picture | CP Express (Built: 1961) Was built due to increased demand for centralized recieving shipping and container storage. Built to the north of the original CP Train station that was built in 1913. The building sat on 12 hecters of land extending from Jasper Avenue - 103 Avenue - 109 Street - 111 Street. On 1992-93 plans for retail development called "Railtown" was derailed due to a lack of financial injection to see it started by mid 1993, however by 1999 a new developer came in to design a shopping complex, Centerra Plaza, to include Save-on-foods and 14 other tenants. Share your stories with us |
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 EA-10-412 Details and BIG Picture | Central Pentecostal Tabernacle (Built: 1964) The angled pyramid and the square, yellowed-glass buildings on 116th Street at 106 Avenue was a vital part of the visual culture of our city. The first building of two structures called the Central Pentecostal Tabernacle was built in 1964 by Charles Laubenthal and Peter Hemingway. The "Square" building was the only example in Edmonton of the international style and paid homage to the great French master of architecture, Le Corbusier. Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_A1313_6_16 Details and BIG Picture | Montgomery Legion Hall (Built: 1968) The Montgomery Legion 1968 site was chosen to replace the original location built in 1920 which was scheduled for demolition to construct the AGT-Telus south tower. This legion branch is Edmonton`s oldest and was named after General Montgomery of World War 2. The 103 Ave location was closed in March 1993 due to declining memberships, rising utility costs and parking limitations. However, a 70 ton 18`x 40` military memorial wall that was incorporated into the 103 Ave location was re-located to the "Field of Honor" section of the Northern Lights Cemetary 156 Street and St Albert Trail. The Montgomery Legion re-located it`s chapter to 11714 -95 Street in 1993 with only 929 members compared to it`s 1969 membership of 7,000. Share your stories with us |
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 EdmontonArtGallery Details and BIG Picture | Edmonton Art Gallery (Built: 1968) The Edmonton Art Gallery was a brutalist structure that was designed by Don Bittorf in 1968. Renovated/demolished in 2007. Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_A140_4_11a Details and BIG Picture | RCMP K Division (Built: 1970) Prior to 1971 the K-division was located at 101 Ave & 95A St. Currently Edmonton`s K-division has vastly expanded and no remaining sections of the 1970 version remain. Share your stories with us |
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 Ken J. Dayeson KD_A141_6_7a Details and BIG Picture | Twin Drive In (Built: 1970) This particular drive-in was western Canada`s first dual screen venue with a 1200 car capacity. The owners: National Canadian Cinemas Ltd also owned the Twin Plaza cinemas located at 118 Ave and 102 Street.(now the - Gate 81 Bingo Hall). The Twin closed in 1998, ending the local drive-in business, but its huge screens remained up for years as a silent reminder of the days when Edmonton was the unofficial drive-in movie capital of Canada. Share your stories with us |
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