Archive 1997-2016
In 1974, the City of Ottawa established both the Jack Purcell Community Centre and park, aptly named after the 1933 world badminton champion. It was a development that was highly beneficial for Centretown residents; the park expanded green space for students at the Elgin Street Public School and the centre allowed for increased community gathering and programming.
Hidden amid a jumble of one-way streets and small apartment buildings stands the Public Service Alliance of Canada building. The modernist elliptical office tower sits at the intersection of Gilmour and Metcalfe, kitty corner from an old church.
On Ottawa’s bustling Elgin Street, across from the Museum of Nature at Argyle Avenue, sits the Ottawa Police Headquarters building.
Located at the corner of Preston and Somerset streets, the Plant Recreation Centre is in the heart of Centretown. It was closed and renovated in 2004 and from the outside the 1920s-style neo-gothic brick layout of the original building offsets with the newly built side.