Terra cotta

Terra cotta cladding or ornament.

Historic places
35Historic places
Built
1892–1930Built
Provinces and territories
7Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 3
  • Provincial 6
  • Municipal 26
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Manitoba10
  • British Columbia7
  • Saskatchewan7
  • Ontario5
  • Alberta4
  • Nova Scotia1
  • Quebec1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 24 of the 34 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1892Hiram Walker and Sons Limited Main Office BuildingCity of Windsor, Ontario
  2. 1898Union Bank Building AnnexWinnipeg, Manitoba
  3. 1901Birks BuildingWinnipeg, Manitoba

The register gives no construction date for 1 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 35 of these 35 places. These names come up most often.

Names marked ↗ open their entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800–1950.

  1. John D. Atchison (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  2. Brown and Vallance4 places
  3. Burke, Horwood and White3 places
  4. John K. Dow (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places

All 35 places

Often found together

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