Alberta Hotel Building

Built: 1888 - 1889
Architect: J. Llewellyn Wilson (also architect for Bow Valley Ranch House, 1896 and A.E.Cross House, 1891)
Contractor: T.S.C. Lee and Alfred Brealey
Original cost: $36,000 plus $9,000 for furnishings
Original owner: T.S.C.Lee and Alfred Brealey, originally from England. They established themselves as building contractors in Calgary.
Construction materials: Calgary sandstone
Architectural style: Romanesque Revival with heavily rusticated facade
Original interior details: Northwestern Journal of Progress for 1903 described the 75 room Alberta Hotel as "lighted with electricity, heated by steam, call bells in every room, with bell boy system in attendance, and the service in all departments sans raproche, while the cuisine is excellent." Basement - barbershop managed by Charlie Traunweiser, billiard room and bathrooms. First floor - offices and reading rooms, telegraph office, bar room and dining room with a seating capacity of 72. Second floor - ladies parlour and reception rooms. Baths on each floor. Rooms were $2.50 - $3.00 daily in 1903.