1910 – Metopolitan Building, Vancouver, Canada

Demolished in 1998 and replaced with a 30-storey building called the Terminal City Tower.

“The Metropolitan Building, now being erected on Hastings street, Vancouver, west of the post office building and immediately adjoining the home of the Vancouver Club, is ten storeys high, of steel, brick and concrete construction, and will be one of the finest of the new blocks now under way or recently added to the city’s already large list of big structures. For the Terminal City Club there has been built on the north end of the company’s building a two-storey club building 90 x 100 feet, access to which will be made by the main Hastings street entrance through the palm room, 20 X 40 feet, to the foyer of the club, which will also occupy the following space in the main building: On the left of the palm room a ladies’ reception or tea room, and on the right an office, telephone booth, corridor and staircase to second floor, and a private dining room. On the second and third floors of the main building the club will have twenty- two guest rooms, bathrooms and barber shop, access to which will be had only from the club premises. The main building, facing on Hastings Street on the south and Burrard Inlet on the north, will contain 196 large offices, the rooms facing the north having a magnificent view of water and mountains.

Each office is supplied with marble washstands, messenger and telegraph service, janitor service, electric light, steam heat, linoleum, electrical fixtures and other conveniences. The building will be equipped with three high-speed elevators, giving a continuous service day and night, Sundays and holidays alike.

The contracts for the building were let on the 24th of March, 1910, and the building will be entirely completed in about six weeks, at a cost, including the land, of about $500,000.”
Engineering and Contract Record, April 19 1911

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