Updated April 2013 - new book published on the lost elevator.
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It has become known that the land that the Ogden federal elevator sits on is being sold and the vendor states it is demolishing the elevator to improve sales prospects of the land (see the Calgary Herald article posted below). The City of Calgary 'Discover Historic Calgary' site states:
Resource Details - Ogden Federal Elevator
Name: Ogden Federal Elevator
Alternate Names:
Address: 4615 15 ST SE
Year of Construction: 1914
Community: ALYTH/BONNYBROOK
Resource Type: CWHR (City-Wide Heritage Resource)
Designations: Federal: No Date:
Provincial: No Date:
Registered: No Date:
Municipal: No Date:
Original Use Type: Food Supply
Original Use SubType: Grain Elevator
Architectural Style: Other
Architect: Department of Public Works
Builder: Department of Public Works
Provincial Master Plan Theme: Agricultural Development
Development Era: 1914 to 1918 (WW 1)
Legal Description:
Other Significant Dates:
Significance Summary: As a result of the expansion of government involvement in the grain industry early in the century, the federal government erected a series of "inland terminal" elevators. This landmark has dominated southeast Calgary since it was erected in 1914, and remains one of the largest structures in the city. It provides a powerful architectural link with the region's grain-farming past. The rectangular concrete-and-brick elevator tower rises twenty storeys, and is complemented by a nest of concrete tubular storage bins. Together these cover an area 200 feet wide by 500 feet deep. The elevator is an excellent example of an early use of slip-cast concrete construction technology, and is perhaps the pre-eminent example of its time of the "industrial aesthetic". (1982)

