Lorraine Apartments
- Construction year
- 1913
- Architect
- Unknown
- Builder
- Unknown
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- Typology
- Apartment
- Development era
- 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
- Designation
- Inventory listing only
The Lorraine is a very good example of a four-storey, walk-up, apartment block of high quality built in the years before the First World War. The land on which it was constructed was acquired from Senator James Lougheed in 1912 by Omer H. Patrick, a real estate broker who may also have been the builder of The Lorraine. It remained in the Patrick family until 1972. The building is located around the corner from the Ranchmen's Club, and in the neighbourhood of many well-to-do property owners and tenants. A number of prominent Calgarians have lived in this building over the years, one of whom was R.C. Marshall, Mayor of the city, who resided here while in office in 1914.
The Lorraine adapts many of the features of plainer apartment blocks of the time, but combines them in a much more ornate manner. The typical bay windows at either side have been recessed within the red brick walls, and t
Character-defining elements: The character-defining elements of the Lorraine Block include such features as: - location in Calgary's Victoria Park district; - robust massing, - four-storey scale; - use of Tregillus 300-rough red bricks on south, east, and west elevations; - three storey brick portico featuring enclosed sun rooms on the second and third floors and an open balcony on the upper level; - extensive brick patterning and terra cotta trim, arches, busts, medallions and other decorative features; - horizontal band of terra cotta above ground floor, terra cotta frieze containing building name and flanked by terra c
Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 199.