Lord Elgin Hotel
100 Elgin Street, between Slater and Laurier (map
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Ross &
Macdonald
1941 I
- last major project of Ross and Macdonald
- folowed style of their Hotel Saskatchewan
and Royal York
- Chateau roof and full limestone exterior demanded by Mackenzie
King
- built as a "transient" hotel without major public
spaces
- Current additions, with public spaces, sympathetic to original
style
- summetric façade and plan and restrained classical
details
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