2022 - Road Trip - BC-AB-BC - 61
Kamloops BC has a few classic brick buildings.
2 of 6.
Perched at the corner of 1st Avenue and Victoria Street is the old Bank of Commerce built in 1904.
Toronto-based architects, Frank Darling and John Andrew Pearson designed the building.
The front façade is clad in dressed stone and Kamloops pressed red brick, manufactured at the local brick factory in Mission Flats.
A major force in Canadian architecture, the partnership of Darling and Pearson was responsible for close to a thousand bank projects, ranging in size from urban headquarters to small wooden structures in remote locations.
Throughout the decades, the building transitioned from a financial institution to a political hub when City Hall was located here from 1953 to 1964.
Today the building is home to Brownstone Restaurant.
2022 - Road Trip - BC-AB-BC - 61
Kamloops BC has a few classic brick buildings.
2 of 6.
Perched at the corner of 1st Avenue and Victoria Street is the old Bank of Commerce built in 1904.
Toronto-based architects, Frank Darling and John Andrew Pearson designed the building.
The front façade is clad in dressed stone and Kamloops pressed red brick, manufactured at the local brick factory in Mission Flats.
A major force in Canadian architecture, the partnership of Darling and Pearson was responsible for close to a thousand bank projects, ranging in size from urban headquarters to small wooden structures in remote locations.
Throughout the decades, the building transitioned from a financial institution to a political hub when City Hall was located here from 1953 to 1964.
Today the building is home to Brownstone Restaurant.