Information Building
In French: Pavillon d'information
Also known as Former Auditorium-School
224 Banff Avenue
About Information Building
Information Building is one of 5 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings in Banff. Its record dates Information Building to 1939–1941. Its design is credited to Engineering, Construction Services, Department of Mines and Resources.
Located in Banff National Park of Canada, facing Banff Avenue, the main commercial street in Banff, the Information Building, also known as the Former Auditorium-School, is a two-storey, rectangular building with a cross-gable roof covered with shingles. Its exterior is a combination of masonry and painted half-timbering. Along the side of the building, massive fieldstone buttresses rise from the ground to the eave line. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Information Building · Open Government Licence – Canada · quoted as the register has it
Recognized federal heritage buildings are owned by the Government of Canada and reviewed for their heritage value.
Finding Information Building
Banff
No second historic place is close enough here to make a walk of it.
Questions about Information Building
What is Information Building?
Information Building became a Recognized Federal Heritage Building in 1992.
Can you visit Information Building?
Yes from the outside; whether it opens its doors is for its owner to say.
Is Information Building protected?
While the federal government owns it, changes go through its heritage review.
When was Information Building built?
Its register puts the building of Information Building at 1939–1941.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles.
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