Sibley Block - Municipal Historic Resource Designation
The Sibley Block was approved as a Municipal Historic Resource Designation at the September 16, 2025 meeting of City Council
Sibley Block, Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, Heritage Calgary.
On the September 16 meeting of City Council, the Sibley Block was approved as a Municipal Historic Resource Designation.
This designation brings to total municipal heritage desingations to 174. It took about 30 years for Calgary to get to 100 designations, and in the last five years 74 have already been added which reflects a 74% increase! At Heritage Calgary we continue to see a significant increase and interest from property owners in being added to the Inventory, which is the first step to receiving Municipal Historic Resource Designation from the City of Calgary.
Built in 1911, the Sibley Block is valued for its contribution as a commercial/retail space on 9th Avenue SE (original Atlantic Avenue), Calgary's earliest main street and the symbolic heart of the community, for over one hundred years. Its attractive red-brick façade features brick voussoirs over the windows and entrances and boasts distinctive brick corbelled cornices at the top of each storey separation.
Sibley Block, Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, Heritage Calgary.
The block is named for Allen Edgar Sibley, an Ontario native who moved to Calgary in 1903. Sibley was the manager and proprietor of Allan E. Sibley, Boots and Shoes store on 8th Avenue, and advertised himself as “the Reliable Shoe Man”. He acquired the lot in 1910, and the same year obtained a permit to build a warehouse and constructed this two-storey, woodframe red brick commercial building.
The Sibley Block represents one of the most recent commercial heritage designations on Inglewood’s historic Main Street, a crucial step in protecting the character of one of Calgary’s oldest neighbourhoods.
Learn more about the Sibley Block on the Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources.
Sibley block ghost signage. Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, Heritage Calgary.