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Wesley Hall Opened


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JUNE 3, 1896: Wesley Hall, the first and most recognizable building on the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ campus, was designed jointly by architects George Brown & S. Frank Peters. The cornerstone had been laid June 26th 1894.  It is a brick building with a façade of sandstone quarried near Elbow River, AB, which was brought to Calgary and then shipped by train.  The cost of all contracts, from the stonework to the well & pump, was $71,700.32.


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