City Hall, Moose  Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

Architect	David Ewart
Date Built	1911 - 1914
Location	228 Main Street North
Description
Moose Jaw City Hall occupies the corner of Main and Fairford.  This impressive building began life as a Post Office and features one of two standard post office designs used by the Dominion of Canada at the beginning of the 20th century.  Its style is described on the HistoricPlaces.ca website as exhibiting features of Edwardian Classical, "... through its ornate stonework, an asymmetrically placed clock tower with cupola, cornice, pilasters and engaged columns with capitals, voussoirs, pronounced keystones, triangular, round-headed and broken pediments as well as decorative interior elements such as marble skirting and terrazzo floors. Other elements such as its rusticated stone base, balanced fenestration, four-faced clock, and attic with mansard roof and dormers add to the building’s prominence."  The website adds that, "Built during the height of a pre-World War I boom period in the community, the building’s large scale and substantial $281,000 cost was a symbol of the optimism which both the Dominion Government and local residents placed in Moose Jaw’s future."  In 1963, the City of Moose Jaw purchased the building to accommodate city council chambers, municipal departments and the local police service.

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