Great West Liquor Co. Warehouse
- Construction year
- 1911
- Architect
- Unknown
- Builder
- Unknown
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- Typology
- Warehouse
- Development era
- 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
- Designation
- Inventory listing only
This site is significant because:
- the building's refined and high-quality facade provides a strong, intact example of Romanesque Revival commercial architecture in Calgary, with some Neoclassical detailing. [Style value: community significance]
- its contribution to Calgary's historic wholesale/warehouse district, recalls Calgary's historic status as the most important wholesale and distribution centre between Winnipeg and Vancouver. [Activity value: City Wide significance]
- it contributed to the development of the northern Beltline area as Calgary's main wholesale/warehouse district, and continues to contribute to the warehouse district's historic identity and character. [Symbolic value: community significance]
Character-defining elements: Character-defining elements of the property include, but are not limited to, the following: - Two-storey, rectangular, flat-roof form with asymmetrical facade; raised basement and ground floor; - Heavy-timber (mill) construction with brick exterior; red, pressed-brick facade with heavily corbelled cornice; battered rock-faced sandstone foundation rock-faced sandstone sill course, window sills and lintels; - Fenestration, with facade comprising segmental-arched first-storey windows and flat-headed second storey windows; segmental arched rear windows; - Off-centre main entrance doorway and trans
Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 241.