Bankers' Row

17 mai
2013
Wellington Street from the Peace Tower - Part II

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Wellington street, Metcalfe Street, Langevin Block, O'Connor street, Bankers' Row

~1910

2013

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To this day, all the buildings along Wellington between Metcalfe and O'Connor have been demolished or are vacant at the time of writing this. A friendly reminder that this block is straight in front of Parliarment and it is owned by the National Capital Commission (NCC)....

11 mai
2013
Wellington Street from the Peace Tower

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Metcalfe Street, Rideau Club, American Embassy, Langevin Block, Wellington street, Bankers' Row

~1940

2013

View of Wellington Street from the Peace Tower

Wellington Street and centretown in Ottawa from the Peace Tower.

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A lot of building on that photo have disappeared: the Rideau Club (1979) and a bank (Banque Nationale?) on what used to be called the Bankers' Row.Note that we used to be able to see the Museum of Nature and several churches on Elgin street....

15 déc
2012
Langevin Block

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Langevin Block, Rideau Club, Wellington street, Rideau Club, rue Wellington, Bankers' Row

~1938

2012

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Due to the critical lack of office space on Parliament Hill, the south side of Wellington was designed to host a new departmental building. Instead of going for the Gothic Revival style of the building on Parliament Hill, it was decided to align the design of that new building with...