January Meeting
Hosted by Calgary Roving Historic Book Group
Details
Heritage Hall was built in 1921-22 at a cost of $714,200 out of steel and concrete with Medicine Hat brick and locally quarried sandstone cladding and Tyndall trim ornamentation. The building is Collegiate Gothic - a long rectangular building divided into three sections. The building has crenelated roof lines. Battlements and towers give the structure a medieval look. The front entrance has tablet flowers, a fork-tailed dragon door hinge and the devil on the port latch.
The floors are terrazzo, made of rectangles of marble chips in fine cement and separated by thin bronze rods. The banisters were made from solid maple, some pieces 18 feet long. There are spiral stairs inside the towers leading to upper level observatories.
If you take the stairs be sure to check out the murals above the doorways.