Buildings
École Belmont
| Address: | 525 Belmont Avenue |
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| Use: | Educational |
| Original Use: | Educational |
| Constructed: | 1953 |
| Other Work: | Classrooms and gym added in 1986 |
| Architects: | Prain and Ward Macdonald Cockburn McFeetors Architects (1986) |
| Firms: | Prain and Ward, Macdonald Cockburn McFeetors Architects |
Design Characteristics
| Suburb: | Jefferson, Seven Oaks East |
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- Tucked into an irregular lot near a CPR line, the kindergarten to Grade 5 French immersion school benefited from some creative thinking when it came time to add to the original six classrooms; the front jack-knifes to create an embracing entrance at the intersection of the old and new wings
- Original construction was simple with a frame of steel and wood, a wood roof deck, a flat roof and walls faced in a red brick; the glass block windows, typical of the time, have been closed in and stuccoed over, leaving only the shape and vertical strips on the far ends behind
- What is distinctive to the design are the broad eaves, carried down on triangular brick-over-steel buttresses in a sort of fin that delineates each classroom
- The eighties addition on the east side is denser, with few windows and little detailing, slightly higher and made of the same red brick as the earlier section