Fairey Terrace
- Construction year
- 1906
- Architect
- Unknown
- Builder
- Fairey, Frank
- Style
- Classic Revival
- Typology
- Apartment
- Development era
- 1885 to 1905 (Railway/Early Settlement)
- Designation
- Inventory listing only
The 6-unit rowhouse has design value as a rare example of early terraced housing in Calgary. (Design Value, City Wide Significance)
The building is valued for its high quality, well-crafted Classical Revival style architecture. (Style Value, City Wide Significance)
As a 1906 apartment built for professionals, Fairey Terrace is symbolic of Victoria Park, one of Calgary's earliest communities, where a rich variety of building types were developed to serve a wide range of social classes and land uses. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)
The distinctive building, with its prominent corner location across from the busy Stampede Park, convention centre and Saddledome arena, and along the 12th Avenue transportation corridor is a community landmark. (Landmark Value, Community Significance)
Character-defining elements: Key elements that define the heritage character of the Fairey Terrace include its: - form, scale and massing as expressed by its two-storey, rectangular plan with long façade; - six-unit residential terrace (row) house form, each unit with two bays; - flat roof with brick parapet (shaped parapet with coping on front wall and corbelled brick cornice at base; stepped parapet on end walls with brick detail on top edge); brick chimney with brick detailing; - solid masonry construction with solid masonry fire walls; tie rod anchors in the end walls; original red-brick cladding in stretcher bond pat
Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 336.