The Armoury

Here is one of my pics l took in the Whyte Avenue area that never made it into the alphabet series.
This is the Connaught Armoury. Built in 1911-12 at a cost of $35,000. It is also the oldest armoury in Alberta. It was named after Prince Arthur of Connaught and Strahearn, the third son of Queen Victoria.
It served the 19th Alberta Dragoons in both World Wars.
When the Dragoons moved out of Edmonton it sat empty for 14 years. It was home to a couple of restaurants but today is used as a drop in centre for the Youth Emergency Shelter

[Ivan]

Good military architecture and interesting bit of Albertan military history, Brian. Pleased it is still used.

[Pam]

Nice shot!

[Henri Russell]

Nice architecture.

[Margaret Brown]

An impressive building nice to know it’s still being used!

[Sylvia Binch]

That looks like a good, solid building. Well captured.

[Chris H]

Nice to know it's being put to good use nice looking building.

[Henk-Jan]

Looks wonderful with the late (or early) sun

[Kathie]

I think prices have escalated a bit. Hope they can continue to preserve it.

[Richard Hickey]

Cool picture.

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Great capture

[Pyrrhula]

Beautiful building.

[Karly]

I love these old brick buildings. Nice spot of sun too!

[Francoise]

wonderfully(and appropriately) imposing

[Connie Little]

Looks like a well fortified building.

[wendy frost]

Well captured architecture.

[Tom]

It does look like a very solid building as an armory is intended to be

[Babs]

What a lovely building. I love the brickwork.

[Jane Anderson]

An interesting history with a wide variety of stories to tell!

[Diane]

Nice shot of an interesting building--with an interesting history!

[Peter Dulis]

Lovely

[CC Folk]

Pretty building with interesting history. I love the added information and Canada!

[Dinah Pinkston]

Impressive building, and it has such an interesting history!

[Sharon]

Interesting history.

[Dione Giorgio]

Lovely capture and the history is very interesting. I would have kept it as a museum and memorial of the dragoons and the weapons they used during they had their quarters there.

[Lynne Hart]

Nice lighting, glad this historic building is still being put to good use.

[Michelle]

Beautiful architecture 😊

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Good shot- it's a very solid looking building. I'm glad it's also not going to waste.

[haskar]

Great light and nice architecture.

[bkb in the city]

@kathiecb Thankfully this is on historic list to be protected

[bkb in the city]

@agedrunner Thanks Richard

[bkb in the city]

@elisasaeter Thanks Elisabeth

[bkb in the city]

@pyrrhula Ferry glad you like it

[bkb in the city]

@365karly1 They are beautiful

[bkb in the city]

@francoise Yes it certainly is

[bkb in the city]

@littleconnie Yes it certainly is

[bkb in the city]

@wendyfrost Thanks Wendy

[bkb in the city]

@tosee Yes it certainly is

[bkb in the city]

@onewing Glad you enjoyed this one

[bkb in the city]

@janeandcharlie Yes so many stories I am sure

[bkb in the city]

@eudora Thanks Diane

[bkb in the city]

@pdulis Glad you enjoyed this one

[bkb in the city]

@gardenfolk Glad you enjoyed this one

[bkb in the city]

@dsp2 Glad to share it with you

[bkb in the city]

@purdey Glad to share it with you

[bkb in the city]

@sangwann Dione they do have a military museum in another of the armouries in the city

[bkb in the city]

@lhart Lynne it is very nice to still have it around

[bkb in the city]

@bigmxx Glad you enjoyed this one

[bkb in the city]

@olivetreeann Ann it is very nice to still have it around

[bkb in the city]

@haskar Glad you like it

[bkb in the city]

@ivan Yes it is very nice to still have it around

[bkb in the city]

@pamdavis2015 Thanks Pam

[bkb in the city]

@henrir Glad you like it

[bkb in the city]

@craftymeg Yes it is very nice to still have it around

[bkb in the city]

@bintal Thanks Sylvia

[bkb in the city]

@chrisiow Yes very nice

[bkb in the city]

@hajeka In this case the late sun

[Harry J Benson]

A nice change of use for it. Good architectural photo

[bkb in the city]

@hjbenson Thanks Harry