Banff Springs Hotel
N 51° 09.807 W 115° 33.698
11U E 600572 N 5668984
The Banff Springs Hotel is a former railway hotel located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Waymark Code: WM4BFB
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 08/02/2008
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From the Emporis.com web page.
- The Sites and Monuments Board of Canada declared the hotel a historical site on March 22, 1992.
- Largest hotel with number of rooms west of Toronto.
- Construction of the original four-storey wooden structure began in the spring of 1887 and the Hotel was ready to open by early summer 1888.
- Original room rates were $3.50 per night.
- In 1903 the west wing of the original structure was duplicated with a one-storey wooden bridge connecting the two buildings.
- In 1904, the building was expanded again with a tower on the end of each wing.
- Walter Painter was the chief designer for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and was the architect of the central tower of the hotel.
- A 100 room Tudor annex was built at the end of the 1925 season to accommodate regular guests while the south wing was being replaced.
- The north wing was burned down before the 1926 season and reconstructed during the summer.
- The building is clad in Rundle Rock quarried at nearby Mount Rundle on the Spray River.
- During the winter of 1926/27 the wooden south wing was torn down and reconstructed with a rock-faced, fireproof structure.