Page 3 - City of Calgary Historic City Hall Rehabilitation project

By Dave Carpenter and in keeping with the important place the building
holds in Calgary’s history and the hearts of its

algary’s Historic City Hall is a National, citizens. “It means to renew as opposed to replace;

Provincial and Municipal Heritage that’s an important distinction,” he says.
CResource. It has stood for 109 years, and

after four years of meticulous work on the facility, The building’s construction began in 1907 through
Darrel Bell’s confident it will last for a hundred more. to 1911, and it’s the only remaining city hall from this

time period in Western Canada. It’s constructed

Bell, the Acting Director of Facility Management from sandstone, readily available at the time from
for the City of Calgary, has led the Historic City the many quarries operating in and around Calgary.

Hall rehabilitation project since its inception in

2016, through to the ceremony to honour the After weathering the elements for more than one
building’s restoration on September 15 this hundred years, the sandstone on Historic City Hall

year. began to show signs of deterioration and in 2014,

a piece of sandstone fell from the north side of the
Bell says the use of the term ‘rehabilitation’ building.

in the project’s name is quite intentional,

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