1927 – Metropolitan Life Insurance Company / Wellington Building, Ottawa, Canada

Built as the Canadian head office for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Designed by American architect D. Everett Waid who designed several major projects for the firm after he became their chief architect. It remained the home of Met Life until 1970 when the company moved to a new building to the south. There are late 1950s extensions by Marani and Morris.

Bought by the federal government, and used as offices and for a time the home of the Canadian Postal Museum. In 1984 a shortage of office space for the MPs resulted in some of them being moved to the building. Renovations in 2016 included modernisation of its interior spaces and systems to accommodate MP offices, committee rooms, and a library. It has a fine and very decorative entrance hallway finished in Byzantine-style mosaic.

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