1420 Broad Street, Victoria, BC

1420 Broad Street Building is a three storey commercial building with a below grade basement, located at the highly exposed corner of Broad Street at Pandora Avenue, at the northern edge of Victoria’s historic Old Town. The building is situated across the street from Victoria City Hall and Centennial Square and is notable for its elegant and understated Edwardian-era design, including its sand lime brick cladding and segmentalarched windows. The building was constructed circa 1907 and has had several major renovations in 2001/2007 and was seismically upgraded in 2001. The building is constructed of historic timber and decking, steel columns and braces, steel beams, and cast-in-place concrete. The building is clad with mass masonry walls, fibre cement siding and prefinished corrugated metal panels.