Beginning in 1920, the Hudson’s Bay Company embarked on a campaign to make a small model community north of downtown Edmonton.

This Modernist apartment tower, one of the first built west of downtown, has been an Oliver icon for sixty years.

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

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

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

Three homes and three stories from Central Edmonton’s Queen Mary Park.

It might not look like much, but beneath the ol’ Hub Hotel’s pockmarked walls and faux-stone facade hides the remnants of Jasper House, the first brick building between Vancouver and Winnipeg.

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.

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.”

Built to house luxurious apartments, the Gibbard Block now houses offices and a slew of local eateries.

This opulent home is one of some two-dozen pre-war mansions in the Groat Estates, a Glenora-like enclave east of the Groat Ravine.

Our little slice of California, with its bright stucco and red tiles, was a curio to anyone who passed by and unique in a way most Edmonton buildings couldn’t dream of being. Now another glass high-rise will replace it.

In our rush to save the Ring Houses we’ve forgotten two others…

If you drive out to the site today, you’d be hard pressed to find the signs of cultural genocide. Where it happened doesn’t look special; it could be ‘Anywhere, Alberta.’ But long ago it was once home to the Edmonton Indian Residential School.

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.

Designed by a Washington-based architect, and copied from a Spokane-based design, this striking Great War-era skyscraper represents Alberta’s best application of the Chicago School Style.

In a penny wise, pound foolish move, the University of Alberta demolishes its last tangible link to the campus’ humble beginnings.

Garneau's little yellow house is a good representative example of a popular inter-war architectural style.

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