On April 3, 2020 the Heritage Calgary board approved the following site to be updated to the Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources. Learn more about this site below.

Rideau Towers (1955), Rideau Park

3204 Rideau Place Rd SW (Renfrew House),
3232 Rideau Place (Cumberland House),
3316 Rideau Place SW (Rutland House),
3339 Rideau Place SW (Devonshire House).

Rideau Towers, completed in 1955, has high style value as an exquisitely designed International-style multi-residential tower complex (Style Value – City Wide Significance).

Rideau Towers is further significant for its construction value as the earliest and largest building to utilize a suspended lift slab technology in Calgary (Construction Value – City Wide Significance).

Rideau Towers also has symbolic value as an icon of the shift in Post-war Calgary towards luxury high-rise living (Symbolic Value – City Wide Significance).

Rideau Towers is also valued as a landmark due to its iconic International-style design and highly visible positioning perched on the Elbow River escarpment with views of the towers from downtown Calgary (Landmark Value – City Wide Significance).