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Barron Building
The Barron Building is an eleven-storey office tower located at 610 8th Avenue South West in Calgary, Alberta. Designed by architect Jack Cawston and built between 1949 and 1951, it is one of Canada’s foremost examples of Art Moderne-style architecture. In 2003 it was named by the Alberta Association of Architects as Significant Alberta Architecture.
==History and design==
Following the discovery of Leduc No. 1 on 13 February 1947, the city of Calgary quickly became an international oil centre. During the ensuing boom, many oil companies sought to establish offices in the city. To capitalize on the necessity of downtown office space, Calgary businessman and lawyer Jacob Bell Barron (1888-1965) hired local architect Jack Cawston, with the firm Cawston and Stevenson, to design a modern office tower. At the time, modernism was rare in Calgary, a colonial city dominated by neoclassical architecture. The few preceding examples of modernism in the city include the Utilities Building at 115 6th Avenue South West (1939), the Alberta Government Telephones Building at 119 6th Avenue South West (1929), the Dmitri Skaken House at 1131 Colborne Crescent South West (1947), and the Glenmore Water Treatment Plant at 5300 19th Street South West (1933). The Barron cost $1.25 million, was built by Larwill and Stevenson Construction Company, and opened in 1951. Original tenants included Sun and Halliburton oil companies. From 1955 to 1969 the building was known as the Mobil Oil Building.
The first three stories of the building hold the Uptown Theatre, which includes a mezzanine level. This is followed by seven floors of office space. On the roof is a penthouse that was lived in by Barron. The penthouse was expanded in the late 1950s to cover the whole area of the roof, save for a balcony in the south-west corner. The Barron is primarily clad in buff-coloured brick. The central bay as well as the second and third floors are clad in Tyndall limestone, while the ground floor is in polished black marble. The building also features ribbon windows, a design brought to prominence by Le Corbusier.
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