{"id":576737,"date":"2026-04-02T05:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576737\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:26:12","slug":"5-historic-edmonton-buildings-we-wish-were-never-demolished-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576737\/","title":{"rendered":"5 historic Edmonton buildings we wish were never demolished | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edmonton is full of historic buildings that are worth celebrating, because once they\u2019re gone, they\u2019re gone.<\/p>\n

From funky, narrow buildings to landmarks that shaped the city\u2019s skyline, many of Edmonton\u2019s most beautiful buildings have been lost to disrepair or progress.<\/p>\n

Here are five historic Edmonton buildings we wish still stood today.<\/p>\n

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City of Edmonton Archives<\/p>\n

Address: 10057 Jasper Ave. NW<\/p>\n

This unique building was long and narrow, measuring just 25 feet wide but 15o feet deep. A single hallway ran along the right side, with offices along the left as well as the front and back. While the layout made the most of the space, it came at the cost of tenant safety. It was built during Edmonton\u2019s real estate boom in the early 20th century, when land along Jasper Avenue was expensive and in high demand. The Agency Building housed several notable tenants, but by the early 1970s, it became harder to fill. It was demolished in 1972 alongside the Capitol Theatre and Monarch Building to make way for a new 20-storey office tower.<\/p>\n

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City of Edmonton Archives<\/p>\n

Address:\u00a0104th Avenue and 100th Street NW<\/p>\n

Designed in a Grecian Doric style, the Canadian National Railway station featured heavy stone columns and beautiful stone detailing. It was built using concrete beams and girders, tile partitions, red corduroy brick, and Tyndall stone from Manitoba. he site measured 159 by 439 feet, with the main building covering about 15,000 square feet. The building was later demolished to make way for the CN Tower, which was completed in 1966.<\/p>\n

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City of Edmonton Archives<\/p>\n

Address: 100th Street and 102A Avenue NW<\/p>\n

This was Edmonton\u2019s first proper courthouse, replacing many makeshift and temporary courtrooms that had been set up in places like a schoolhouse, a hall that doubled as a theatre and ballroom, and the upper floors of a general store and a saloon.<\/p>\n

The gorgeous two-storey masonry building was designed in the Classic Revival style by architects from the provincial government\u2019s Department of Public Works, led by Allan Merrick Jeffers. Construction took about three years and cost roughly $250,000, with the building completed in 1912. But by the late 1960s, and even with an addition in the 1950s, the courthouse could no longer meet the city\u2019s needs. The new courthouse opened in 1972, and the old building was sold to department store chain Woodward\u2019s, which demolished it to make way for a new downtown store.<\/p>\n

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City of Edmonton Archives<\/p>\n

Address: 111th Street between 98th Avenue and 99th Avenue NW<\/p>\n

Four sisters and one nurse from Quebec arrived in Edmonton in 1900 to establish the Misericordia Hospital on 111th Street. They built a 60-bed hospital in 1906 between 98th and 99th Avenue. The three-storey brick building was built in the Second Empire style of architecture, but it started to shut down in 1959 as it aged, and five years later, a boiler explosion caused a fire that damaged the structure. The hospital eventually moved to its new site in west Edmonton in 1969. By 1972, only parts of the original building were still standing, and it was briefly used to house mentally disabled children before it was torn down completely.<\/p>\n

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City of Edmonton Archives<\/p>\n

Address:\u00a010020 100th St. NW<\/p>\n

This beautiful Classical Revival building was a downtown landmark until it was demolished in 1968. Its cream-coloured brick and Bedford stone exterior featured a red tile roof and copper gutters, flashing, and skylights. The main entrance was framed by four Bedford stone Doric columns, and the words \u201cFREE TO ALL\u201d were carved above it. After the larger Centennial Library opened in 1967, the site was sold to Alberta Government Telephones, which tore down the building to make way for the AGT Tower (now the Telus building).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton is full of historic buildings that are worth celebrating, because once they\u2019re gone, they\u2019re gone. From funky,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-576737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}