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North-West Travellers Building

Office · mid-rise office building · built 1912 · 515 1 St SE

LiDAR roof height20 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)5

Footprint1,180 m²

Parcel611 m²

Year built (roll)1912

Assessed 2026$1.4M

Structures on parcel2

Nearest CTrain186 m

Civic address: 515 1 St SE, 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: #199 of 580 citywide · #102 of 111 in Downtown Commercial Core
Site coverage: 193% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 201307543
Coordinates: 51.047948, -114.060768

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 m · 527 m² · 9.5 m · 653 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: Centre Street, 186 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station 7 Avenue SW is 505 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.

North-West Travellers Building

Construction year: 1913
Architect: Unknown
Builder: Lyall and Sons
Style: Edwardian Classical
Typology: Inn
Development era: 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
Designation: Inventory listing only

1992 History Summary

The North-West Travellers Building has excellent historical significance, as it has served numerous important commercial and social agencies in its lifetime. It was built in 1913 by the North-West Travellers' Association as a residential and social facility for travelling salesmen. This was the period in which sales persons made extensive tours through Western territory, and a similar facility was built in Winnipeg. By the 1930s the Association no longer needed so large a building and upper floors were rented out to various groups, including the Commercial High School. Between 1930 and 1935 Calgary Public Museum was located here. In 1949, the Salvation Army purchased the building to use as a men's hostel, social bureau, labour bureau, store, and central registry for transients. The four-storey building is a very good example of the Edwardian Commercial style, wit

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 211.

Named building record

Public-domain building facts from Wikidata attached by location. Where a stated height differs from the LiDAR roof, the difference usually reflects spires, screens or datum.

Name: North-West Travellers Building
Description: clubhouse in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Floors: 4
Identifier: Wikidata Q38529275 (CC0)

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 201307543 · Office

Published values by roll year

Roll year	Assessed value	Change
2010	$4.2M	—
2011	$2.1M	-49.2%
2012	$2.4M	13.1%
2013	$4.8M	97.1%
2014	$5.6M	17.1%
2015	$5.7M	1.6%
2016	$4.8M	-15.4%
2017	$3.8M	-20.5%
2018	$3.1M	-19.5%
2019	$2.2M	-28.1%
2020	$2.1M	-4.5%
2021	$1.3M	-36.7%
2022	$1.9M	42.9%
2023	$1.9M	0.0%
2024	$1.9M	0.0%
2025	$1.8M	-5.3%
2026	$1.4M	-20.6%

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 3 since 2012 · 2 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2021-03-01	BP2021-03060	3402 - Office · Improvement Leasehold Improvement - Northwest Traveler Building	$895,000	Completed
2017-02-27	BP2017-01711	4002 - Vacant · Improvement Interior Alteration - Leasehold Improvement	$25,000	Completed
2015-02-11	BP2015-01502	3402 - Office · Improvement	$54,200	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 3 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $974,200. 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.

The Bow500 Centre St SE239.8 m · built 2012 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 79 m
133 6 Ave SE56.3 m · built 1979 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 94 m
411 1 St SE113.8 m · built 1970 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 99 m
Education Centre Building515 Macleod Trail SE25.4 m · built 1967 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 111 m
St. Regis (Grunwald) Hotel124 7 Ave SE26.1 m · built 1912 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 145 m
Oddfellows' Temple (Chamber of Commerce)100 6 Ave SW20.1 m · built 1912 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 179 m

North-West Travellers Building questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is North-West Travellers Building?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 20 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 5 at 3.9 m per storey. Wikidata records 4 floors.

When was North-West Travellers Building built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1912 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1913.

Which CTrain station is closest to North-West Travellers Building?

Centre Street Station, 186 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at North-West Travellers Building?

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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