Dominion Building - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Dominion Building - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Dominion Building (originally Dominion Trust Building) is a commercial building in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located on the edge of Gastown (207 West Hastings St), it was Vancouver's first steel-framed high-rise. At 53 m (175 ft), the thirteen-storey, Second Empire style building was the tallest commercial building in the British Empire upon its completion in 1910.City of Vancouver's plaque on the building, photo visible here Its architect was John S. Helyer,Helyer was in partnership with his son, Maurice, as J.S. Helyer & Son (Blue Plaque; the firm also erected the building housing the Vancouver Stock exchange at 148 West Hastings Street (1908) (now "Regal Place"), the ten-storey Metropolitan Building on Hastings Street (1911-12), and the Board of Trade building at Homer and Cordova, (1909), using poured-in-place concrete; Maurice Helyer built the Medial Arts Building on Granville Street (1922-23), according to Au Petit Chavignol in another Maurice Helyer building, at 845 East Hastings. who is said to have died after falling off the staircase in the front of the building, though this is an urban legend.Emporis Building Database Read more on Wikipedia
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