1893 – Temple Building, Victoria, British Columbia
The Temple Building was designed by architect Samuel Maclure for Robert Ward & Company. It is considered his finest commercial building design.
The Temple Building was designed by architect Samuel Maclure for Robert Ward & Company. It is considered his finest commercial building design.
The building faces south and is a five story concrete and glass structure over a podium on a steeply sloping site.
The foundation stone was laid by the Hon John Robson on March 7th 1889 just five months before he became the ninth Premier of British Columbia.
Modern bank building in a Brutalist style that replaced a Beaux Arts Classical building nearby.
Built in 1891, the Milne Block was designed by prominent British Columbia architect, Thomas Hooper (1857-1935),
Constructed as a branch of the Bank of Toronto and now an art gallery. The building has a simplified,
John Teague, architect for Victoria’s city hall, designed the New England Hotel, built in 1892 in a hybrid of Victorian Romanesque architecture and Sullivanesque design.
A late nineteenth century Victorian Italianate hotel, with extensive use of tall upper storey bay windows and distinct ground-storey arches.
A three-storey brick building featuring arched bays and decorative brickwork above its third-storey windows, and a stylized ‘false-front’
Originally the Royal Bank had a second storey that was removed in a 1950s renovation.