Hotel MacDonald

The Hotel Macdonald, now known as the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, is a Chateauesque-style hotel built by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1915. Ross and Macfarlane who designed the hotel, located the building in a prominent area of downtown Edmonton which was ideal for promoting tourism in major Canadian cities during he early 20h century. The hotel consists of eleven floors with 198 rooms for guests, ballroom, event spaces, athletic facilities and a singular restaurant. The massive scale building is faced with a limestone exterior, steeply pitched and dormered roofs, with its interior decorated in a French Renaissance Chateau manner.