Hope
Chambers (Bible House)
61-63 Sparks Street (map
7)
W.E. Noffke
1910 II
- potential significant heritage building
- built for Ottawa's leading publisher and bookseller, James
Hope
- tripartite classical facade
- pure doric metalwork entablature below crown
- terra cotta decolration (Doulton) including statue of "Hope"
- "Bible House" a later name for "Hope Chambers"
- Housed Chistian Science Reading Room
- symmetrical facade
- first 9-storey steel frame building in Ottawa
- Dominion Bridge responsible for steel frame (as at union
Station and Chateau Laurier)
- brick wall carried by steel frame (visible at side)
- marquees, trademark lions, stone base
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