Alexandra Terrace (McNaughton Terrace, Alexander Terrace)
- Construction year
- 1907
- Architect
- Unknown
- Builder
- Unknown
- Style
- Queen Anne Revival
- Typology
- Townhouse
- Development era
- 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
- Designation
- Inventory listing only
This site is significant because...
The building is an exceptionally rare example of Queen Anne Revival-style row housing in Calgary (Style value - City-wide significance)
The building is an excellent symbol of Calgary's history of pre-war development and the rapid population expansion that took place during the first decades of the 20th Century (Symbolic value - City-wide significance)
The building's unique typology and prominent location make it a landmark in the Beltline neighbourhood (Landmark value - Community significance)
The building is associated with a number of influential and socially prominent Calgarians, including Matthew McNaughton, Henry and Eleanor Tomkins, James D. Lafferty, Eric Harvie, Shirley Singer, and Hilda Belzberg (Person value - City-wide significance)
Character-defining elements: The character-defining elements include but are not limited to its: - Queen Anne Revival-style three-storey row house with red brick façade and wood-structured interior; shingled mansard roof with cornice, and shingled, hipped dormers. - Original, engaged, three-storey, octagonal corner tower in northeast corner with shingled, pyramidal tower cap; additional shingled tower and cap with finial on southeast façade. - Five window bays on front (east) façade and one bay on north façade; pronounced brick sub-sills and decorative vertical brick arrangement on upper sills of windows on both levels. -
Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 361.