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Dafoe Terrace

Office · low-rise office building · 1204 3 St SE

LiDAR roof height11.8 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)3

Footprint605 m²

Parcel646 m²

Year built (roll)—

Assessed 2026$1.5M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain318 m

Civic address: 1204 3 St SE, Calgary, AB
Community: Beltline (BLN)
City sub-property use: C101 Office · all Office sites
Land use district: CC-X — Centre City Mixed Use District (Commercial)
Height rank: #314 of 580 citywide · #88 of 119 in Beltline
Site coverage: 94% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 068144906
Coordinates: 51.040934, -114.055732

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 →

11.8 m · 605 m²

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

How it compares

Roof height against the Beltline median and tallest, and against the city.

Access

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

CTrain

Nearest station: Victoria Park/Stampede, 318 m straight-line (route 201). Planned Green Line station Event Centre / Grand Central Station is 487 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

Outside the Plus 15 network area.

Heritage inventory

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

Dafoe Terrace

Construction year: 1910
Architect: Unknown
Builder: Sheffield & Peterson (R.D. and J.C. Sheffield; Charles J. Peterson)
Style: Georgian Revival
Typology: Apartment
Development era: 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
Designation: Inventory listing only

This site is significant because...

The 6-unit terrace has design value as a well-preserved and very rare early example of this housing form in Calgary. (Design Value, City-wide Significance)

The building is a high quality example of Georgian Revival style architecture in the city. (Style Value, City-wide Significance)

As an early apartment built for professionals in 1910, Dafoe Terrace is symbolic of early Victoria Park which, by that date, was fully developed with a rich variety of building types serving a range of land uses and social classes. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

The distinctive terrace building, with its prominent corner location at the north edge of 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 Dafoe Terrace include its: - form, scale and massing as expressed by its two-and-one-half-storey, rectangular plan with long façade; - six-unit residential terrace (row) house form; - hipped roof with wooden shingles, deep overhanging eaves and wooden tongue-and-groove soffits; fire-walls projecting above roofline; cross gable centred on front façade flanked by symmetrical wooden gable dormers with boxed, returned eaves and wooden soffits; wooden gable dormers centred on end facades with wooden soffits (boxed, returned eaves on south dorme

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 151.

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 068144906 · 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	$720,500	—
2006	$758,500	5.3%
2007	$1.0M	33.2%
2008	$3.2M	214.9%
2009	$3.3M	2.5%
2010	$2.2M	-31.9%
2011	$1.9M	-14.4%
2012	$2.3M	18.4%
2013	$3.8M	69.3%
2014	$3.1M	-18.9%
2015	$3.7M	21.0%
2016	$3.9M	3.5%
2017	$3.5M	-9.3%
2018	$3.0M	-15.7%
2019	$2.2M	-26.4%
2020	$1.5M	-32.1%
2021	$1.1M	-29.1%
2022	$768,500	-26.8%
2023	$625,500	-18.6%
2024	$1.2M	88.6%
2025	$1.4M	19.5%
2026	$1.5M	7.1%

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 5 since 2012

Applied	Permit	Category · description	Status
2020-12-14	DP2020-8074	Change of Use - Permitted Use CHANGE OF USE: OFFICE	Cancelled
2016-08-17	DP2016-3396	Change of Use - Permitted Use CHANGE OF USE: RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE	Released Approval
2014-09-09	DP2014-4343	Change of Use - Permitted Use CHANGE OF USE: OFFICES	Cancelled
2014-07-07	DP2014-3179	Signs - Permitted Use NEW: SIGN - CLASS B & D (FASCIA SIGN, PROJECTING SIGN)	Released Approval
2012-09-11	DP2012-3867	Signs - Permitted Use SIGN - CLASS B & D: FASCIA SIGN, PROJECTING SIGN	Cancelled

Recent building permits 5 since 2012 · 3 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2024-06-24	BP2024-12682	3608 - Restaurant · Improvement Interior alterations.	$40,000	Completed
2023-11-30	BP2023-20719	3703 - Beauty Shop · Improvement Desoa Studio	$75,000	Completed
2021-08-13	BP2021-14222	3402 - Office · Unspecified Group A2 Multi-tenant 3.2.2.28	$7,000	Completed
2017-05-30	BP2017-06373	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior alteration new tenant	$10,000	Completed
2013-12-13	BP2013-18435	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior Alteration (Gianmarco Office - Basement)	$198,000	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 5 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $330,000. 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.

Fairey Terrace1111 3 St SE10.4 m · built 1906 · Office · Beltline · 71 m
456 12 Ave SE10.2 m · built 1919 · Office · Beltline · 98 m
Victoria Sandstone School411 11 Ave SE23 m · year n/a · Office · Beltline · 129 m
Arriva Tower300 1111 Olympic Way SE123.5 m · built 2008 · Office Condo · 9 accounts · Beltline · 141 m
Pilkington Paint & Glass402 11 Ave SE19.2 m · built 1913 · Office · Beltline · 167 m
334 11 Ave SE19.4 m · built 2008 · Office · Beltline · 173 m

Dafoe Terrace questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Dafoe Terrace?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 11.8 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 3 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Dafoe Terrace built?

The City’s roll does not publish a usable year of construction for this account.

Which CTrain station is closest to Dafoe Terrace?

Victoria Park/Stampede Station, 318 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Dafoe Terrace?

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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