Canadian Pacific Railway Company Hotel (Palliser Hotel)(1911-14)
9th Avenue, Calgary, AB, Canada
Commercial, Hotel [basement, 7 floors]; brick and stone; concrete frame

Client: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Architect: E. & W.S. Maxwell

Holdings: Hotel (basement, 7 floors); brick and stone; concrete frame
419 Drawings: 274 ink on linen; 63 pencil on paper; 23 watercolour on paper; 18 blueprints; 29 blueprints on linen; 12 black line on linen
1 Presentation drawing: exterior perspective
14 Development drawings: floor plans, elevations, bedrooms, billiard room, café, bar, entries, cornice, parapet
36 Working drawings: foundation plans, floor plans, elevations, sections
345 Detail drawings: foundations, floor plans, elevations, sections, bedrooms, dining rooms, café, bar, palm room, conservatory, sun parlour, drawing room, retiring room, rotunda, reception rooms, ball room, banker's shop, barber's shop, offices, foyer, alcove, crush room, vestibule, washrooms, entries, structure, electrical, mechanical, waterproofing, staircases, elevators, chimneys, windows, doors, furniture, gallery, radiator grilles, screens, railings, grating, mail chute, fan pit, fittings, fixtures, finishes, architrave, glasswork, ironwork, masonry, coping, cornice, colonnade, pergola, balustrade, roofgarden, marquee, sidewalk
23 Consultant drawings: mechanical
68 Photographs: 3 constructions; 12 finished exteriors; 33 finished interiors; 20 finished details
1 File folder: clippings; notes; calculations
Comment: 22 drawings by Nygren, Tenny and Ohmes, Engineers, and 1 by Grueby Faience and Tile Company, Boston, dated 2/1913, are included.

Comments: 22 drawings by Nygren, Tenny and Ohmes, Engineers, and 1 by Grueby Faience and Tile Company, Boston, dated 2/1913, are included. As of fall 2000, The Palliser Hotel has been renamed the Fairmont Palliser