Inventory Updates - December 2021

On December 17, 2021 the Heritage Calgary board approved the following sites to be added or updated to the Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources.

Crescent Heights Methodist Church – 204 16 AV NW (formerly 202–16 AV NW, 1703–1 ST NW) – Tuxedo Park

Year Built: 1908 – original church; 1922 – current church nave and sanctuary; 1958 – church hall addition to north

Re-evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

This church has been the home, place of worship, and centre of activity for successive church congregations and their associated organizations and clubs since the building first opened in 1908. (Institution Value—Community Significance)

The building’s 1922 iteration, an excellent example of Tudor Revival style executed by George Fordyce, envelops the original 1908 structure and is complemented by a highly compatible 1949 addition. (Style Value—Community Significance)

The church is almost certainly the last remaining non-residential building that stood in the Village of Crescent Heights before it was annexed to Calgary in 1910. (Symbolic Value—Community Significance)

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church – 1301 14 ST SW – Sunalta

Year Built: 1930 (Church, bell tower and rectory), 1955 (Steeple), 1964 (Administrative building, apse)

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church has institution significance through its association with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary and Sacred Heart Parish, a congregation that has met on the site since 1910 and whose membership has long been active in the church’s organizations and clubs. (Institution Value—Community Significance)

The church has person significance through its architect, William Stanley Bates, a long-time Calgary architect who designed several prominent buildings in the city, and its long-time parish priest, Msgr. Arthur Joseph Hetherington, who served as Sacred Heart’s parish priest for 48 years and held high offices at the diocesan level. (Person/People Value—City Wide Significance)

Sacred Heart possesses style significance for its excellent late-example Gothic Revival-style church and bell tower, its Tudor Revival-style rectory, and its Modern additions that reinterpret Gothic and Tudor elements in a mid-20th Century manner. (Style Value—Community Significance)

The original bell tower, increased in height and visibility in the 1950s with a steeple addition, is easily seen from both directions along 14 ST SW, a significant commuter street. (Landmark Value—Community Significance)

Christ Church – 3602 8 ST SW – Elbow Park

Year Built: 1912-14 (foundation church); 1921 (Phase 1 superstructure); 1954 (completed church with tower)

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

As the first church in Elbow Park, and an important place of worship in the community, Christ Church is symbolic of the early residential neighbourhood. The church’s builder, WH Cawston, architects JA Cawston and WP Major, and a number of important parishioners including Col GE Sanders were residents of Elbow Park. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

A well-known place of faith set at the base of a natural escarpment and across from expansive community recreation fields, Christ Church is a landmark in Elbow Park, and the ring of its English change-ringing bells a familiar sound. (Landmark Value, Community Significance)

Since 1912, Christ Church has served as a place of faith for the growing Elbow Park Anglican parish. In addition to worship, the church has made significant social contributions. (Institution Value, Community Significance)

The completion of the church was recognized in a cornerstone-laying and dedication ceremony by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Geoffrey Fisher, during his visit to Canada in 1954. (Event Value, City-wide Significance)

Christ Church is a complex, multi-phase example of the ecclesiological Gothic-Revival Style that picturesquely retains its layered history while maintaining a cohesive vision realized over four decades by four architects: George Macdonald Lang (1860-1930), William Paul Major (1881-1974), Robert Benjamin Stacy-Judd (1884-1975), and John Alexander Cawston (Jack, 1911-1966). (Style Value, Community Significance)

Ogden Block – 7044 Ogden RD SE – Ogden

Year Built: 1913
Evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

The Ogden Block has activity value as the original venue of the Hong Lee Laundry, representative of the Chinese laundries that were ubiquitous in early 20th-century Calgary. (Activity Value—Community-Wide Significance)

The Ogden Block is significant for its style value as a rare and early commercial Edwardian building in the historical industrial neighbourhood of Ogden (Style Value–Community Significance)

The Ogden Block is a rare extant example of the pre-First World War main street development that occurred on Ogden RD in tandem with the construction of a streetcar line and the establishment of the adjacent Canadian Pacific Railway Ogden Shops. (Symbolic Value—Community Significance)

Chapin Residence – 1103 COLBORNE CRES SW – Upper Mt Royal

Year Built: 1912

Re-evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

The Chapin Residence (1911) is one of Upper Mount Royal’s earliest homes, representing the area’s origins of as an elite residential suburb attracting Calgary’s newly affluent who were benefitting from the city’s pre-WWI economic boom. (Symbolic Value, Community-wide Significance)

This house contributes to Mount Royal’s assemblage of substantial, high-quality homes in a variety of styles. It is a primarily a Classical Revival house with some Queen Anne Revival traits. (Style Value, Community-wide Significance)

Several early stone retaining walls survive in this hilly neighbourhood. The high sandstone block wall that runs across the front this house and the one next door is a particularly large and impressive example. (Construction Value, Community-wide Significance)

Hyde Residence – 1402 PROSPECT AV SW – Upper Mt Royal

Year Built: 1912

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

The Hyde Residence, built in 1911, is one of Upper Mount Royal’s earliest homes, representing the area’s origins of as an elite residential suburb attracting Calgary’s newly affluent who were benefitting from the city’s pre-WWI economic boom. (Symbolic Value, Community-wide Significance)

This house is a fine example of a Queen Anne Revival home and contributes to Mount Royal’s assemblage of substantial, high-quality homes in a variety of styles. (Style Value, Community-wide Significance)

J. W. Davidson Residence and Coach House – 801 Royal AV SW (20 AV until 1930s) – Upper Mt Royal

Year Built: 1908, 1912 additions

Re-evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

The J. W. Davidson Residence, built 1908 and expanded 1912, is one of Upper Mount Royal’s first homes, and one of the grand residences that established the neighbourhood’s character as an elite suburb. (Symbolic Value, Community-wide Significance)

This well-designed, substantial house was built in the then-fashionable Tudor Revival style. Style characteristics include the steeply pitched gable roofs, mock half timbering, jettied top storey, and Tudor-arch door and window openings. (Style Value, Community-wide Significance)

The 1911 map identifies the back coach house/garage as an “auto shed,” making it an early car garage in Calgary. (Symbolic Value, Community-wide Significance)

This house was built for James W. Davidson who led the large Alberta firm Crown Lumber Co., established the town of Beiseker, AB, and was an international leader in the Rotary organization. It was the home of Francis F. Reeve, president of Commonwealth Oil and its subsidiary Commonwealth Drilling, and his wife, Winnifred Eaton Reeve, who was an internationally known novelist as well as a movie screenplay editor and writer. This house is further associated with premier Calgary architects, starting with James O’Gara who designed it and George Fordyce who planned the 1912 addition. (People Value, Community-wide Significance)

Millican Residence – 3015 GLENCOE RD SW – Elbow Park

Year Built: 1914

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

Located in the picturesque Glencoe Triangle cultural landscape, and associated with the early development of the neighbourhood, Millican Residence is symbolic of the upper-class Elbow Park subdivision of ‘Glencoe’. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

The house served as the Osteopathic Health Home in the 1920s and 1930s and Anglican Synod offices from the 1970s through the 1990s (Activity Value, Community Significance)

The house is valued for its association with original builders and long-time resident owners, the Millican family, who were distinguished in the legal community, and the Nickle family, recognised for their contributions to the petroleum industry and to the arts. (Person Value, City-wide Significance)

The house is a skilfully crafted example of the ‘subdued picturesque’ English Arts & Crafts style with decorative Queen Anne influences anchored on a solid sandstone base. (Style Value, City-wide Significance)

The Millican Residence is part of an exceptionally rare grouping of six contiguous Pre-War stone houses in Alberta, which is further enhanced by an extensive river-rock garden wall. (Construction Value, City-wide Significance)

The residence is part of a scenic cultural landscape comprising Glencoe Triangle, a landscape feature with hedge border, a river rock garden wall and six sandstone houses: three in the triangle and three along Glencoe Road, a quiet tree-lined street with a view northeast to the Mount Royal escarpment. (Landmark Value, Community Significance)

Quirk Residence – 3018 GLENCOE RD SW – Elbow Park

Year Built: 1911

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

Located on Glencoe Road across from Glencoe Triangle, and associated with the Pre-War development of the neighbourhood, Quirk Residence is symbolic of the early Elbow Park subdivision of ‘Glencoe’. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

The Quirk Residence possesses person value for residents Campbell Camilus (CC) Snowdon (ca1881-1935), an important Canadian industrialist, and John Edward Annand (JEA) Macleod (1878-1966), a leading Calgary lawyer and renowned amateur historian. (Person Value, City-wide Significance)

The residence is a well-crafted and highly distinctive sandstone interpretation of the Craftsman Style with Arts and Crafts influences. (Style Value, City-wide Significance)

The Quirk Residence is valued as a rare example of a stone house in Alberta, set in an exceptionally rare grouping of six contiguous surviving Pre-War stone houses fronted by an extensive river-rock garden wall, and also displays unique foundation construction of fieldstone/sandstone above concrete. (Construction Value, City-wide Significance)

The residence is part of a scenic cultural landscape comprising six sandstone houses with river rock garden walls: three along Glencoe Road, a quiet tree-lined residential street with a view northeast to the Mount Royal escarpment; and three in Glencoe Triangle, a landscape feature with hedge border. (Landmark Value, Community Significance)

Woods Residence – 322 ELBOW PARK LN SW – Elbow Park

Year Built: 1911

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

As an upscale residence designed in a popular revival style of the period, the 1911 Woods residence is symbolic of the early development of Elbow Park. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

The residence possesses person value for its associations with Hon Lieut.-Col. James Hossack Woods (1867-1941), a respected journalist who became "one of Canada's most widely known newspaper publishers and philanthropists" (Calgary Herald). (Person Value, City Wide Significance)

The Woods Residence is a thoughtful interpretation of the Tudor Revival style by notable architect William Stanley Bates which reflects both its urban and natural context. (Style Value, Community Significance)

McAdam Residence – 105 SCARBORO AV SW – Scarboro

Year Built: 1926

Evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

Scarboro, known as Sunalta Addition at the time, was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company who engaged the renowned John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920) in 1909 to design a “Picturesque suburb”. The McAdam Residence, constructed in 1926, is an excellent example of an intact residence that met and established the dominant character of the street within the Olmsted Plan during the inter-War years. (Symbolic Value – Community-wide Value)

The McAdam Residence is a notable example of an intact exterior and interior Semi-Bungalow home distinguished by a moderately-pitched, cross-gabled roofline with front shed-dormer, stucco-cladding accentuated with Tudor half-timber detail, and prominent arched inset front entrance. (Style Value – Community-wide Value)

Hextall Residence – 8648 48 AV NW – Bowness

Year Built: 1912

Re-evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

The Hextall Residence, one of five remaining ‘Hextall homes’, possesses symbolic value for its association with developer John Hextalls’s 1911 Bowness Estates, and his ambitious plans to create an upscale community set in great natural beauty. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

The Hextall Residence is valued for its original owner John Hextall (1861-1914) who designed the large footprint cottage style home for his daughter Victoria as one of five homes that he initially built and advertised as an example of the quality of housing within the Bowness Estates residential development. (Person Value – Community-wide Value)

The Hextall Residence is an exemplary example of a Semi-Bungalow-style by its moderately-pitched side gable roof with a central single front gable roof dormer, central enclosed raised front verandah with wood columns, and wood caps over tapered Craftsman-style river rock piers. (Style Value – Community-wide Value)

Van Wart Residence – 1036 8 AV SE – Inglewood

Year Built: 1886

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

The Van Wart Residence has person value through two early owner/occupants. John Gerow Van Wart arrived in Calgary advance of the railway, established an early grocery store, and was a candidate in the first mayoral election. John M. Burns lived in the house while serving as general manager of P. Burns & Company, a major industrial firm established by his uncle. (Person/People Value—City Wide Significance)

The house has event value as the venue for the first service of the East Calgary Presbyterian church. (Event Value—Community Significance)

It has style value as an excellent, early example of Georgian domestic architecture in Calgary. (Style Value—City Wide Significance)

The house has landmark significance as an early, elegant house in present-day Inglewood sited on the corner of a large lot near the riverbank. (Landmark Value—Community Significance)

Arthur M Webb Residence – 1040 5 AV SE – Downtown West End

Year Built: 1925

Evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

The Arthur M. Webb Residence is one of few remaining single-family houses in the Downtown West End, providing a rare, tangible reminder of the area’s original character as a community of modest single-family houses for working- and middle-class residents. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

This is a fine example of an Arts & Crafts house in an English cottage style, retaining a high degree of exterior integrity. (Style Value, Community Significance)

The rarity of this single-family house in the neighbourhood, its attractive architectural form and details, and its prominent setting at the edge of open land (currently a public park) all make this building a community landmark. (Landmark Value, Community Significance)

Inventory Updates - December 2021

Crescent Heights Methodist Church – 204 16 AV NW (formerly 202–16 AV NW, 1703–1 ST NW) – Tuxedo Park

Year Built: 1908 – original church; 1922 – current church nave and sanctuary; 1958 – church hall addition to north

Re-evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

This church has been the home, place of worship, and centre of activity for successive church congregations and their associated organizations and clubs since the building first opened in 1908. (Institution Value—Community Significance)

The building’s 1922 iteration, an excellent example of Tudor Revival style executed by George Fordyce, envelops the original 1908 structure and is complemented by a highly compatible 1949 addition. (Style Value—Community Significance)

The church is almost certainly the last remaining non-residential building that stood in the Village of Crescent Heights before it was annexed to Calgary in 1910. (Symbolic Value—Community Significance)

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church – 1301 14 ST SW – Sunalta

Year Built: 1930 (Church, bell tower and rectory), 1955 (Steeple), 1964 (Administrative building, apse)

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

Sacred Heart possesses style significance for its excellent late-example Gothic Revival-style church and bell tower, its Tudor Revival-style rectory, and its Modern additions that reinterpret Gothic and Tudor elements in a mid-20th Century manner. (Style Value—Community Significance)

The original bell tower, increased in height and visibility in the 1950s with a steeple addition, is easily seen from both directions along 14 ST SW, a significant commuter street. (Landmark Value—Community Significance)

Christ Church – 3602 8 ST SW – Elbow Park

Year Built: 1912-14 (foundation church); 1921 (Phase 1 superstructure); 1954 (completed church with tower)

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

A well-known place of faith set at the base of a natural escarpment and across from expansive community recreation fields, Christ Church is a landmark in Elbow Park, and the ring of its English change-ringing bells a familiar sound. (Landmark Value, Community Significance)

Since 1912, Christ Church has served as a place of faith for the growing Elbow Park Anglican parish. In addition to worship, the church has made significant social contributions. (Institution Value, Community Significance)

The completion of the church was recognized in a cornerstone-laying and dedication ceremony by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Geoffrey Fisher, during his visit to Canada in 1954. (Event Value, City-wide Significance)

Ogden Block – 7044 Ogden RD SE – Ogden

Year Built: 1913Evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

The Ogden Block has activity value as the original venue of the Hong Lee Laundry, representative of the Chinese laundries that were ubiquitous in early 20th-century Calgary. (Activity Value—Community-Wide Significance)

The Ogden Block is significant for its style value as a rare and early commercial Edwardian building in the historical industrial neighbourhood of Ogden (Style Value–Community Significance)

The Ogden Block is a rare extant example of the pre-First World War main street development that occurred on Ogden RD in tandem with the construction of a streetcar line and the establishment of the adjacent Canadian Pacific Railway Ogden Shops. (Symbolic Value—Community Significance)

Chapin Residence – 1103 COLBORNE CRES SW – Upper Mt Royal

Year Built: 1912

Re-evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

The Chapin Residence (1911) is one of Upper Mount Royal’s earliest homes, representing the area’s origins of as an elite residential suburb attracting Calgary’s newly affluent who were benefitting from the city’s pre-WWI economic boom. (Symbolic Value, Community-wide Significance)

This house contributes to Mount Royal’s assemblage of substantial, high-quality homes in a variety of styles. It is a primarily a Classical Revival house with some Queen Anne Revival traits. (Style Value, Community-wide Significance)

Several early stone retaining walls survive in this hilly neighbourhood. The high sandstone block wall that runs across the front this house and the one next door is a particularly large and impressive example. (Construction Value, Community-wide Significance)

Hyde Residence – 1402 PROSPECT AV SW – Upper Mt Royal

Year Built: 1912

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

The Hyde Residence, built in 1911, is one of Upper Mount Royal’s earliest homes, representing the area’s origins of as an elite residential suburb attracting Calgary’s newly affluent who were benefitting from the city’s pre-WWI economic boom. (Symbolic Value, Community-wide Significance)

This house is a fine example of a Queen Anne Revival home and contributes to Mount Royal’s assemblage of substantial, high-quality homes in a variety of styles. (Style Value, Community-wide Significance)

J. W. Davidson Residence and Coach House – 801 Royal AV SW (20 AV until 1930s) – Upper Mt Royal

Year Built: 1908, 1912 additions

Re-evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

The J. W. Davidson Residence, built 1908 and expanded 1912, is one of Upper Mount Royal’s first homes, and one of the grand residences that established the neighbourhood’s character as an elite suburb. (Symbolic Value, Community-wide Significance)

This well-designed, substantial house was built in the then-fashionable Tudor Revival style. Style characteristics include the steeply pitched gable roofs, mock half timbering, jettied top storey, and Tudor-arch door and window openings. (Style Value, Community-wide Significance)

The 1911 map identifies the back coach house/garage as an “auto shed,” making it an early car garage in Calgary. (Symbolic Value, Community-wide Significance)

Millican Residence – 3015 GLENCOE RD SW – Elbow Park

Year Built: 1914

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

Located in the picturesque Glencoe Triangle cultural landscape, and associated with the early development of the neighbourhood, Millican Residence is symbolic of the upper-class Elbow Park subdivision of ‘Glencoe’. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

The house served as the Osteopathic Health Home in the 1920s and 1930s and Anglican Synod offices from the 1970s through the 1990s (Activity Value, Community Significance)

The house is a skilfully crafted example of the ‘subdued picturesque’ English Arts & Crafts style with decorative Queen Anne influences anchored on a solid sandstone base. (Style Value, City-wide Significance)

The Millican Residence is part of an exceptionally rare grouping of six contiguous Pre-War stone houses in Alberta, which is further enhanced by an extensive river-rock garden wall. (Construction Value, City-wide Significance)

Quirk Residence – 3018 GLENCOE RD SW – Elbow Park

Year Built: 1911

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

Located on Glencoe Road across from Glencoe Triangle, and associated with the Pre-War development of the neighbourhood, Quirk Residence is symbolic of the early Elbow Park subdivision of ‘Glencoe’. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

The Quirk Residence possesses person value for residents Campbell Camilus (CC) Snowdon (ca1881-1935), an important Canadian industrialist, and John Edward Annand (JEA) Macleod (1878-1966), a leading Calgary lawyer and renowned amateur historian. (Person Value, City-wide Significance)

The residence is a well-crafted and highly distinctive sandstone interpretation of the Craftsman Style with Arts and Crafts influences. (Style Value, City-wide Significance)

Woods Residence – 322 ELBOW PARK LN SW – Elbow Park

Year Built: 1911

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

As an upscale residence designed in a popular revival style of the period, the 1911 Woods residence is symbolic of the early development of Elbow Park. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

The residence possesses person value for its associations with Hon Lieut.-Col. James Hossack Woods (1867-1941), a respected journalist who became "one of Canada's most widely known newspaper publishers and philanthropists" (Calgary Herald). (Person Value, City Wide Significance)

The Woods Residence is a thoughtful interpretation of the Tudor Revival style by notable architect William Stanley Bates which reflects both its urban and natural context. (Style Value, Community Significance)

﻿McAdam Residence – 105 SCARBORO AV SW – Scarboro

Year Built: 1926

Evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

Hextall Residence – 8648 48 AV NW – Bowness

Year Built: 1912

Re-evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

The Hextall Residence, one of five remaining ‘Hextall homes’, possesses symbolic value for its association with developer John Hextalls’s 1911 Bowness Estates, and his ambitious plans to create an upscale community set in great natural beauty. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

Van Wart Residence – 1036 8 AV SE – Inglewood

Year Built: 1886

Re-evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

The house has event value as the venue for the first service of the East Calgary Presbyterian church. (Event Value—Community Significance)

It has style value as an excellent, early example of Georgian domestic architecture in Calgary. (Style Value—City Wide Significance)

The house has landmark significance as an early, elegant house in present-day Inglewood sited on the corner of a large lot near the riverbank. (Landmark Value—Community Significance)

Arthur M Webb Residence – 1040 5 AV SE – Downtown West End

Year Built: 1925

Evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

The Arthur M. Webb Residence is one of few remaining single-family houses in the Downtown West End, providing a rare, tangible reminder of the area’s original character as a community of modest single-family houses for working- and middle-class residents. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

This is a fine example of an Arts & Crafts house in an English cottage style, retaining a high degree of exterior integrity. (Style Value, Community Significance)

The rarity of this single-family house in the neighbourhood, its attractive architectural form and details, and its prominent setting at the edge of open land (currently a public park) all make this building a community landmark. (Landmark Value, Community Significance)

Year Built: 1913
Evaluated as a Community Historic Resource

McAdam Residence – 105 SCARBORO AV SW – Scarboro