Preserving the Past

The Arts District of Edmonton consists of several buildings. These buildings now sit on what was once the Civic Centre of Downtown. Over the years as those buildings came down the city chose to preserve their history.
Located out front of the Winspear Centre for Performing Arts is the Civic Centre Heritage Gallery. The main building for years at the Civic Centre was the Civic Block.
The first photo is a section of the entrance from the old Police Station, the middle photo is an archive photo dating from 1916 showing the City Market and in the background is the Civic Block. The third photo shows a section preserved from the Civic Block

[Sharleen]

Interesting collage! It's so important to preserve a city's past. Thanks for sharing!

[Kerri]

Great collage

[Louise & Ken]

It's really marvelous to see cities that embrace their past and leave information on the buildings to share it with us!

[Jane Anderson]

I am so glad that the city preserved parts of this. Nowadays so many old buildings are imploded, with only demolition instead of preservation in mind.

[Fisher Family]

Nice to see that some parts are preserved, and a cool collage to show us - Lucy

[Candace]

Lovely architecture!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Beautiful collage and great looking architecture.

[Kathy Burzynski]

great collage!

[Hubregt Visser]

Nice collage

[KWind]

Nice collage showing the area.

[Graham Thresher]

A great collage. Fav

[Babs]

Great triptych and interesting story, thanks for sharing.

[Shirley Banford]

Great collage.

[Tony]

Nicely captured and great presentation and history.

[June]

A great selection of pictures, it's so good that the history of these buildings has been preserved.

[Pyrrhula]

Great collage of tree beautiful pic.`s

[Cindy McFarland]

Great collage!

[Harry J Benson]

good triptych and explanation

[Mike]

Fantastic photos and thanks for another great history lesson

[Stephanie Swift]

Very interesting photographs and history, thanks for sharing Brian.

[bkb in the city]

@sharleen You're welcome Sharleen

[bkb in the city]

@kerristephens Thanks Kerri

[bkb in the city]

@Weezilou Yes I do like that for sure

[bkb in the city]

@cejaanderson that is true and they have done a lot of that here as well

[bkb in the city]

@fishers Glad to share this with everyone Lucy

[bkb in the city]

@ribbet9 Glad you enjoyed this Candace

[bkb in the city]

@mittens Thanks Marilyn

[bkb in the city]

@myhrhelper Thanks Kathy

[bkb in the city]

@hjv Thanks Hubregt

[bkb in the city]

@kwind Thanks Kim

[bkb in the city]

@thresheg Thanks Graham for the comment and the fav

[bkb in the city]

@onewing You're welcome Babs

[bkb in the city]

@sabanford Thanks Shirley

[bkb in the city]

@tonydebont Thanks Tony

[Gena Pegg]

Great collage of these structures!

[bkb in the city]

@678tabby It is nice to have this around

[bkb in the city]

@pyrrhula Thank you

[bkb in the city]

@cindymc Thanks Cindy

[bkb in the city]

@hjbenson Thanks Harry

[bkb in the city]

@mikekutz You're welcome Mike

[bkb in the city]

@tristansmum You're welcome Stephanie

[bkb in the city]

@eyesmile Thanks Gena

[Bev]

Nice triptych. It's great that they preserved it. I think more cities need to do that instead of tearing down and putting something gaudy in its place.

[Jane]

Brilliant collage and interesting write up. Glad the buildings are been preserved they are very beautiful ♥

[bkb in the city]

@prttblues It is nice to have this although they do have an abstract piece of art just a few feet from this

[bkb in the city]

@aromatic It is nice to have a little piece of the past here

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Nice collage Brian!

[bkb in the city]

@olivetreeann Thanks Ann