1883 – Oriental Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia
A late nineteenth century Victorian Italianate hotel, with extensive use of tall upper storey bay windows and distinct ground-storey arches.
A late nineteenth century Victorian Italianate hotel, with extensive use of tall upper storey bay windows and distinct ground-storey arches.
The Bank of British Columbia is a three storey Italianate Style building on the corner of Government and Fort Streets.
The foundation stone was laid by the Hon John Robson on March 7th 1889 just five months before he became the ninth Premier of British Columbia.
Built in 1891, the Milne Block was designed by prominent British Columbia architect, Thomas Hooper (1857-1935),
A three-storey brick building featuring arched bays and decorative brickwork above its third-storey windows, and a stylized ‘false-front’
Interior Perspective View of premiated design as published in The Building News, October 28th 1892.
As early as 1870 there had been plans for a new Cathedral and in 1891,
John Teague, architect for Victoria’s city hall, designed the New England Hotel, built in 1892 in a hybrid of Victorian Romanesque architecture and Sullivanesque design.
Unbuilt entries for an architectural competition to design a range of goverment buildings for the province in Victoria.
The Temple Building was designed by architect Samuel Maclure for Robert Ward & Company. It is considered his finest commercial building design.