Former YMCA building that was later heavily remodeled to become the Birks Building. Used as a branch of the YMCA from 1901 until 1913 when their new downtown building opened on Vaughan Street.
The Strathcona block was built for Lord Strathcona as an elite residential building on the corner of Main Street and Broadway in 1902.
Mulvey School No. 3, completed in late 1895 and largely resembling its predecessor which was destroyed in a fire,
Designed by local architect George Creeford Browne, the three-storey building was expanded in 1902, and further renovations were made in 1911 and 1920.
Browne most often employed brick in his symmetrical compositions; his work at Strevel Terrace, 1889-90 can be recognized by their absence of applied decoration and by the projecting horizontal band courses of brick that surround his buildings.
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