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The Firkins Residence

Relocated to Fort Edmonton Park in 1992, this California-style bungalow is a good representative example of the Craftsman style.

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The Yuen Residence

This distinctive Westend property was once home to noted Chinese-Canadian painter Lee Kow Yuen.

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The Martel Block

This small building, once home to meatpackers and stockyard labourers, will soon give way to a highway overpass.

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Stone’s Meat Market

Before Kind Ice Cream brought fame to this Highlands corner, another business did: Stone’s Meats.

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The Cavanagh / Hurtig Residence

Once home to a Great War amputee, Jewish-Romanian furriers, and an Order of Canada recipient, this unassuming Oliver Foursquare is living on bought time.

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The Stein Residence

Built in 1912, the Stein Residence is a good representative example of higher-class housing styles in Westmount, an area that “developed a reputation as the ‘place to be for the up and coming.”

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The Toronto-Dominion Branch

This bank branch might be easy to ignore, but in its plain beauty lies a great — if small — example of Modernist design.

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The Transit Hotel’s Origins

The Transit Hotel speaks to a different time — one where the roads were dirt, horses outnumbered cars, and meatpacking was Edmonton’s big claim to fame.

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The West Residence

This threatened heritage home, tucked away off Jasper Avenue, was once home to two of Edmonton’s earliest pioneers.

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