Is the entire third floor fake? That is super well done. Never would have guessed.
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James House | 390 Bank St. | 34m | 9s | Urban Capital + Taggart | RAW
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OttawaUrbanite
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It would seem so, I wonder what the rationale was for extending a 3rd floor facade was when they fitted the space for Staples?
Looks like that faux-façade was built hundred years ago with the original structure. It's part of the brick heritage face on Bank and Waverley.
CapitalSeven
Senior Member
Seems more likely that it was really a three-storey building and only the facade was kept when they consolidated various properties into the one-storey Staples.
Edit: I seem to be correct. I checked the historical photos on GeoOttawa, and it seems to have happened in the 90s.
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1999:
PS: I have been in and past this building hundreds of times before but never really looked. The heritage facades are the only bits of the old buildings remaining; otherwise they were completely demolished, and replaced with a steel-frame big box store. It was a complete facadectomy.
Edit: I seem to be correct. I checked the historical photos on GeoOttawa, and it seems to have happened in the 90s.
1991:
1999:
PS: I have been in and past this building hundreds of times before but never really looked. The heritage facades are the only bits of the old buildings remaining; otherwise they were completely demolished, and replaced with a steel-frame big box store. It was a complete facadectomy.
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Noticed that on Geo the other day as well. For what it's worth, they did do a pretty good job preserving the facade, but you can tell by the window's something's wrong. Kind of sad.
urbottawa
Active Member
The blank wall is colour matched pretty well to the brick