Bank of Canada
234 Wellington Street (map N)
Marani & Lawson
1937 II

• symmetrical plan and façade, limestone facing
• Modern Classical style, tripartite, minimal decoration
• sited to dominate street between buildings opposite
• relief sculptures in window spandrels by Jacobine Jones
• minimal Chateau-style roof imposed by Mackenzie-King
  
• major addition, sympathetic to Beaux-Arts plan, Arthur Ericsson,1974-9

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