Inventory Updates - December 2025

 

On December 19, 2025 the Heritage Calgary Board approved the following sites to be updated or added to the Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources.

Sprenger Residence. Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, Heritage Calgary.

New Additions to the Inventory

  • Phipps Residence

    The Phipps Residence is historically significant for symbolizing the very earliest development to occur in the western part of Hillhurst and West Hillhurst neighbourhoods. Situated in what was historically known as the Westmount (originally Westmont) subdivision, the Phipps residence was among the first houses constructed on Bowness Road (known as 2 Avenue SW until the late 1920s). It was the first house built on the block and remained alone for three years; from 1913 to the early 1940s it was one of just four houses on the block.

  • Field Residence

    The property is historically significant for symbolizing the early settlement phase of Calgary’s pre-1900 history. The house was constructed in 1892 – just 8 years after Calgary was incorporated as a town. Originally, it was located at 510 11 Av. SW, in what is now the Beltline, but moved to the present site c. 1945 and renovated at that time. The house was first owned by John Field (c. 1838-1893) – a well-known English chemist with a noted pharmacy on Stephen Avenue - and his wife Eliza. Given the date of the house, it is one of a small number of pre-1900 houses to survive in Calgary, serving to recall the city’s pioneer era.

  • Sprenger Residence

    The property is historically significant for symbolizing the early settlement phase of Calgary’s pre-1900 history. The house was constructed in 1895 – just 11 years after Calgary was incorporated as a town. Originally, it was located at 622 8 Av. SW, in what is now downtown, but moved to the present site c. 1943 and renovated at that time. The house was first owned for several years by Meinard Jacob Iman Sprenger (1860 – 1951), a Dutch pioneer who owned the Domburg Ranch along the Bow River at Dunbow, near DeWinton. Given the date of the house, it is one of a small number of pre-1900 houses to survive in Calgary, serving to recall the city’s pioneer era.

 
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