The following Municipal Historic Resource Designations were postponed to the February 27 meeting of City Council for approval

Cross Residence – 1240 8 AV SE (Inglewood)
Year Built: 1891

The Cross Residence is significant as one of the earliest examples of the Queen Anne Revival style in Calgary. Designed by J.L. "Deafy" Wilson, it features an asymmetrical façade, two-storey bay windows, and gables ornamented with scrollwork. The widow's walk balustrade, more common in Greek Revival architecture, is unusual in Calgary and lends the residence a picturesque appearance.

The Cross Residence has value for its long association with the Cross family, one of Calgary's founding families.

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Lawless Residence - 2326 15A ST SE (Inglewood)
Year Built: 1912

The 1912 Lawless Residence is a one-storey, Edwardian Cottage-style house with a high-pitched, hipped roof. It is clad in bevelled-wood siding, and features a full-width, enclosed verandah with a centred front entry. The residence fronts 15A Street, a quiet residential street with treed public boulevards, landscaped setbacks with mature plantings, and many working-class homes of the same period. Located in close proximity to the former Colonel James Walker estate (now Inglewood Bird Sanctuary), and built the year following its subdivision, the Lawless Residence is symbolic of Walker’s 1910 ‘Inglewood’ subdivision. The home is situated on lands that were once homesteaded by North West Mounted Police (NWMP) Colonel James Walker.

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Plaza Theatre - 1133 KENSINGTON RD NW (Hillhurst) Year Built: 1928

The Plaza Theatre, built in 1928 and rebuilt in 1934-5, is a two-storey, Art Deco-style theatre with understated Spanish Colonial Revival-style influences. It is distinguished by a stylized parapet and marquee suspended above the entrance. It continues to function as a theatre with one screen and stage.

The Plaza was the third neighbourhood theatre to be built in Calgary, after the Crescent and the Isis theatres, and was the only theatre to be located in the Kensington area. It recalls a time when neighbourhoods theatres were developed to satisfy the enourmous demand for movie entertainment and when each neighbourhood could support a theatre of its own The Plaza is Calgary's last operating neighbourhood movie theatre in the city, and the city's only remaining single-screen cinema.

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Nimmons Residence - 1827 14 ST SW (Bankview) Year Built: 1898

The Nimmons Residence is a two-storey Queen Anne Revival-style house built about 1898 and the associated 0.1934-hectare (0.48-acre) property. The rectangular red-brick building has a hipped and cross-gable roof, polygonal corner tower, and a broad, wrap-around veranda. The property is situated in the inner-city community of Bankview, and comprises a prominent, elevated corner location at 14th Street and 19th Avenue, S.W.

The Nimmons Residence possesses symbolic value for its associations with Calgary's golden age of ranching (c1886-1906), an activity which was vital to the city's settlement. The 3-D Bar Ranch was established near Calgary in the mid 1880s when Isabella and William Nimmons purchased a half-section of land from the Hudson's Bay Company. The price of $8 per acre was very high for the time, but the land's proximity to Calgary markets was advantageous for ranching, lifestyle and real estate.

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