Banff National Park Pavilion

The Banff National Park Pavilion stood near the Bow River Bridge at Banff as a public recreation building designed in 1911 by Frank Lloyd Wright with Francis Conroy Sullivan, one of Wright’s few Canadian students. Built in 1913–1914, it was one of only two Wright designs in Canada and the last built there. Its wood-and-stone Prairie School design featured a large assembly lounge, art glass windows, fireplaces, and ancillary rooms, but it proved practical for only part of the year. Used during the First World War as a Quartermaster’s store and later by tourists, it declined on its swampy riverside site, suffered major flood damage in 1933, and was demolished in 1938.

Alberta · Canada