Arlington Apartments

Arlington Apartments

Infobox Historic building
name = Arlington Apartments


caption =
map_type =
latitude =
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location_town = Edmonton
location_country = Canada
architect =
client = Arlington Apartment Company (consortium of local business leaders)
engineer = Robert Grant
construction_start_date =
completion_date = November 6, 1909
date_demolished = ruins still standing
cost = $130,000
structural_system =
style =
size = Edwardian

The Arlington Apartments or The Arlington was the first apartment building to open in Edmonton, Canada, in 1909. The 49 suite, five-storey redbrick building stood at 100 Avenue and 106 Steet until 2005 when it was destroyed by fire. The building was a prime example of Edmonton's pre-Great War building boom that managed to survive into the 21st century.

The building was financed by a consortium of local business leaders who formed the Arlington Apartment Company. Among the original owners were George Swaisland, an Ontario-born banker who managed the Molson's Bank in Edmonton and Patrick O. Dwyer, the president of the Northern Investment Agency Limited.

The building construction was supervised by Robert Grant of Winnipeg. The building was erected between July and December 1909 at a cost of $130,000.

The building was purchased by the Northern Investment Agency in 1932 for $85,000. In 1943 G. Patrick Ryan purchased it a founded Arlington Apartment Limited.

The building was a popular home for professionals and artists until the 1970s. By the 1980s residents were complaining of problems with prostitution. A fire in 1990 damaged but did not threaten the building.

The building was designated a Provincial Historic Resource in 1995, and a Municipal Historic Resource [http://www.edmonton.ca/infraplan/Heritage/register/pdfs/ArlingtonApartments.pdf] in 1998.

Since the 2005 fire, there has been an acrimonious confrontation between Edmonton's city government and the current owner of the site, Saraswati Singh. The City demanded that the original facade (including the original bricks) be maintained during any reconstruction. In 2007, Singh agreed to incorporate three brick walls of the building into a 20-storey condominium project. In 2008, however, the site's architect said that that plan was no longer feasible, and asked for permission to demolish the ruins and reconstruct the facade with new bricks. The charred shell of the old buildings still sits, awaiting a resolution to the controversy.

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*cite web |url=http://www.historicplaces.ca/visit-visite/com-ful_e.aspx?id=1194 |title=Arlington Apartments |accessdate=2008-04-15 |format= |work=HistoricPlaces.ca
*cite web |url=http://www.rewedmonton.ca/content_view2?CONTENT_ID=980 |title= "The End for Edmontons First Apartment Building" |accessdate=2008-04-15 |author= Herzog, Lawerence
date= April 14, 2005 |work=Real Estate Weekly |publisher=Realtors Association of Edmonton

*cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=6bed694d-90ee-4fe1-a37c-abf67388e58b |title= "Arlington Apartments can't be saved, owner says" |accessdate=2008-04-15 |author= Ruttan, Susan |date= April 10, 2008 |work=Edmonton Journal |publisher=Canwest Global


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