2011-12-26

Banf National Park, Alberta, Canada

Banff Springs Hotel is a former railway hotel constructed in Scottish Baronial style located in Banff National Park in  Alberta. The original hotel, designed by American architect Bruce Price, was built between spring of 1887 and 1888 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, at the instigation of its President, William Cornelius Van Horne. The hotel was publicly opened on June 1, 1888. Starting in 1911, a wholly new hotel was built in stages to replace the 1888 structure. The new hotel was designed by another American architect, Walter S. Painter. Compared with Price's Shingle style-influenced wooden structure, Painter's new hotel was built of concrete and faced with stone.
Based on Wikipedia-26.12.2011



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