Bell Block

On November 13, 2020 the Heritage Calgary board approved the following site to be updated to the Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources.

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Bell Block - 1002 MACLEOD TR SE (Beltline)
Year Built: 1909

Evaluated as a Community Historic Resources

For well over a century the mixed use commercial-residential building has provided retail and commercial service to Victoria Park and the downtown commercial core. (Activity Value, Community Significance)

The Bell Block possesses person value for its developer, namesake and owner from 1909 to 1949, colourful frontier citizen Ralph Alexander Gasgorne Bell (1860-1953), who arrived in Calgary ca1882. (Person Value, Community Significance)

The Bell Block, designed by well-known Calgary architect William Dodd, is a substantial and well-preserved example of the late Edwardian Commercial Style. (Style Value, Community Significance)

The Bell Block is an attractive and prominent example of the red-brick Edwardian commercial buildings that collectively symbolize Calgary’s warehouse district. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

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