Inventory Updates - March/April 2026

On March 26, 2026, the Heritage Calgary Board approved the following sites to be updated or added to the Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources.

New Additions to the Inventory

Maxwell Residence

o The Maxwell Residence has style value as an intact example of a Queen Anne Revival home, relatively uncommon in South Calgary. As one of the few homes built before 1914 on the southern edge of South Calgary and one of a diminishing number of original homes in the area.
Belbin Residence

The Belbin Residence, built in 1928, has style value as a good example of a Craftsman-style bungalow of a type popular in Calgary between the two world wars. It also represents the wave of new residential construction Calgary experienced with the surge in prosperity and optimism in the second half of the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression. New homes such as the Belbin Residence better established districts such as Regal Terrace, where development had been sparse prior to the First World War.

Re-Evaluation

Glanville (Ward) Block

First evaluated in 1982, the Glanville (Ward) Block was due for a re-evaluation. Built in 1899, it has significant activity value for its over 125-year history of commercial occupation in Calgary’s earliest commercial core on Stephen AV SW.

It has further symbolic value for its contribution to Calgary’s first financial core in a three-block area on Stephen Ave SW, starting in the 1890s. The Glanville (Ward) Block has further people value for its association with long-time owner, the Right Honourable William Humble Dudley Ward (1877-1946) and later namesake of the block.

Finally, the Block has style value as a rare and remarkably well-preserved example of the Victorian-era Romanesque Revival style.