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Oddfellows' Temple (Chamber of Commerce)

Office · mid-rise office building · built 1912 · 100 6 Ave SW

LiDAR roof height20.1 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)5

Footprint751 m²

Parcel724 m²

Year built (roll)1912

Assessed 2026$1.9M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain131 m

Civic address: 100 6 Ave SW, Calgary, AB
Community: Downtown Commercial Core (DNC)
City sub-property use: C101 Office · all Office sites
Land use district: CR20-C20/R20 — Commercial - Residential Core (Commercial - Core)
Height rank: #198 of 580 citywide · #101 of 111 in Downtown Commercial Core
Site coverage: 104% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 068055300
Coordinates: 51.047643, -114.063275

Massing and site plan

Left: isometric massing of every LiDAR structure on the parcel, at true scale, viewed from the south-west with 3.9 m storey lines. Right: plan of the parcel with surrounding footprints, Plus 15 walkways and nearby stations. Open this building in the 3D city →

20.1 m · 751 m²

Context within 150 m. Grey footprints darken with height; lime is the Plus 15 network.

How it compares

Roof height against the Downtown Commercial Core median and tallest, and against the city.

Access

Public-geometry tests only; confirm routes, entrances and hours with the building.

CTrain

Nearest station: 1st Street SW, 131 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station 7 Avenue SW is 327 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

The City’s Plus 15 walkway geometry touches this parcel; the plan above shows the connected segments in lime. Confirm access points, hours and the interior route with the building.

Heritage inventory

The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources records the following on this parcel.

Oddfellows' Temple (Chamber of Commerce) (Alberta Odd Fellows Temple Calgary Chamber of Commerce Building (Oddfellow's Temple) I. O. O. F. Building I.O. Olf. Building Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building IO Olf. Building)

Construction year: 1912
Architect: McIlroy, D.S.
Builder: Unknown
Style: Renaissance Revival
Typology: Club
Development era: 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
Designation: Inventory listing only

The Calgary Chapter of the Independent Order of Oddfellows was founded in 1884 and claimed some of Calgary's most prominent citizens. Architect D.S. McIlroy, designed the building in 1910 and the structure was completed in 1912. The four-storey brick building is relatively ornate in design, with three tiers of superimposed stone pilaster strips reaching from the base to the cornice. The arched windows of the top floor illuminated the Grand Hall of the Oddfellows; these arches originally contained a lower arched opening with a roundel above, but both were combined into a single plate glass window in recent renovations.

The Oddfellows sold the building in 1971 and vacated it shortly thereafter. The Calgary Chamber of Commerce purchased the building in 1979 and adapted it as its new home. Aside from the change to the windows noted above, the exterior has been well restored. Some interior

Character-defining elements: Character-defining elements of the Odd Fellows Temple / Calgary Chamber of Commerce include such features as: Exterior and structural: - unusual degree of load-bearing structural capacity in steel frame and poured concrete; - red-brick facade; - fenestration pattern; - piers on ground floor with Ionic capitals; sandstone pilasters on the upper three floors, with three on south facade carved with Corinthian capitals; - 2 ornate capitals on south facade; - metal string course (between the ground and first floors) and a sandstone string course (between the third and fourth floors) dividing the bu

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 423.

Assessment history

Assessed values are The City of Calgary’s taxation figures by roll year, not sale prices or rents; Alberta does not publish transaction prices.

Roll 068055300 · Office

Series not charted. The City’s published values for this roll number change by more than half or double between years, which usually signals a re-numbered, split or partially assessed account rather than a market movement. The published figures are listed below without a trend claim.

Published values by roll year

Roll year	Assessed value	Change
2005	$798,000	—
2006	$1.1M	31.6%
2007	$1.7M	58.1%
2008	$1.7M	4.2%
2009	$1.7M	-2.3%
2010	$2.0M	17.8%
2011	$597,000	-70.0%
2012	$350,500	-41.3%
2013	$12.8M	3563.3%
2014	$15.2M	18.5%
2015	$16.2M	6.4%
2016	$9.1M	-44.0%
2017	$4.6M	-48.8%
2018	$4.1M	-10.8%
2019	$2.9M	-30.2%
2020	$2.1M	-28.0%
2021	$1.8M	-13.5%
2022	$1.1M	-36.7%
2023	$896,500	-21.4%
2024	$1.3M	45.0%
2025	$1.8M	34.6%
2026	$1.9M	9.1%

Development and building permits

Applications the City has located on this parcel since 2012, from the Development Permits and Building Permits datasets.

Recent development permits 0 since 2012

None located on this parcel since 2012.

Recent building permits 8 since 2012 · 6 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2026-03-30	BP2026-04921	2379 - Indust/Communication Misc. · Unspecified Fire alarm repair	$3,500	Completed
2024-10-08	BP2024-21463	3402 - Office · Unspecified Fire Alarm Modification	$742	Completed
2024-07-11	BP2024-14053	5114 - School, Other · Improvement interior - no construction	—	Completed
2020-08-13	BP2020-11111	3402 - Office · Improvement Building Envelope Repairs	$145,000	Completed
2017-09-15	BP2017-12331	3402 - Office · Improvement Repair - Odd Fellows Hall	$38,000	Completed
2014-08-29	BP2014-13589	3402 - Office · Improvement Cenovus Energy Inc	$76,000	Completed
2013-10-03	BP2013-14876	3402 - Office · Improvement New RTU	$40,000	Completed
2013-08-14	BP2013-11892	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior Partitioning	$4.5M	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 8 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $4.8M. Permit descriptions are the City’s records at retrieval; applicant and contractor names are not reproduced.

Nearby office buildings

The six nearest office building sites in the record, by straight-line distance between parcel centroids.

110R 6 Ave SWheight n/a · built 1981 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 24 m
Utilities Building119 6 Ave SW25.5 m · built 1929 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 70 m
Suncor Energy Centre117 5 Ave SW217.1 m · built 1981 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 73 m
Telus Sky685 Centre St SW225.6 m · built 2014 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 98 m
The Bow500 Centre St SE239.8 m · built 2012 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 101 m
Lougheed Building604 1 St SW28.3 m · built 1911 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 120 m

Oddfellows' Temple (Chamber of Commerce) questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Oddfellows' Temple (Chamber of Commerce)?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 20.1 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 5 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Oddfellows' Temple (Chamber of Commerce) built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1912 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1912.

Which CTrain station is closest to Oddfellows' Temple (Chamber of Commerce)?

1st Street SW Station, 131 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Oddfellows' Temple (Chamber of Commerce)?

This profile is built from public records and does not track availability, rents or tenancy. Submit a private requirement and current options in the building or nearby will be confirmed through Commercially.

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Public record sources: Current Year Property Assessments (Parcel), Historical Property Assessments (Parcel), Assessment Subproperty Use Codes, 3D Buildings - Citywide (LiDAR roof outlines), Land Use Districts, Transit LRT Stations, Green Line Stations, Plus 15, Historic Resource (Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources), Development Permits, Building Permits, Calgary Existing Buildings - Performance Metrics (BenchmarkYYC) — The City of Calgary, retrieved 2026-09-21. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. Building names, floor counts and architects, where shown, come from Wikidata (CC0). No brokerage, listing-data or commercial research source is used.

Boundary: Assessed values are the City’s assessment-roll figures for taxation and are not sale prices, asking rents, vacancy or availability; Alberta does not publish transaction prices. LiDAR heights are roof-surface elevations above the lowest ground point at the building perimeter and can differ from architectural heights. Storey equivalents are derived at 3.9 m per storey and are not floor counts. Distances are straight-line. Permit descriptions are the City’s records at retrieval and do not establish current use, tenancy or availability. Read the methodology.

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