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Lacombe Flatiron Building - 1904

            Another from last weekend's visit with Mum and my Sis in Lacombe.

The Merchants Bank Of Canada

Build in 1905
5005 Barnett Avenue, Lacombe, Alberta.

This bank was built to impress. It set out to be the tallest and most stylish building in town.
At three and one half stories it stood shoulders above the rest of the streetscape.
This building cost 30,000 dollars to erect in 1904, quite a significant sum for those times.
Its design took advantage of the ‘Flatiron’ angle of the corner block. 
The design projects a feeling of weight and status with it’s stonework, classical columns and overhanging cornice.
The ornate scallop-shaped hood over the main entrance is the finishing touch.
There were only two other brick buildings in Lacombe at that time. The fire of 1906 burned the more modest surrounding wood framed buildings to the ground, and left the Merchants Bank standing as the lone survivor on the block.
Out of the ashes of ruin rose a new more sophisticated town scape. Brick, cement and stone were
All used in the rebuilding of the downtown and a more unified urban appearance arose on Barnett Avenue.
The Merchants Bank not only impressed, it inspired the future look of Lacombe.
The bank was purchased in 1922 by the Bank of Montreal.
   

Taken on: March 20, 2021

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