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10277 - 97 Street.
Built in 1907, the Kingston Powell Building is characteristic of the commercial buildings that were erected in the boom period prior to World War I in Edmonton, with simple commercial ground floors and living quarters above. Namayo Avenue (97 Street) was a significant commercial location in Edmonton in that period and remained so until the 1920s and 1930s when the commercial core moved west.
The building was designed and built by Kingston Powell, a prominent and successful local farmer. More than likely it was an investment building taking advantage of the boom. Kingston Powell, an Irish immigrant, was one of the early settlers in the Edmonton area who initially farmed, but later chose to invest in the urban construction boom. Powell eventually lost some of his investments and returned back to his farm in the Calder area.
The Kingston Powell building is notable for being one of the only remaining pressed metal clad timber boomtown buildings left downtown.

8403 - 104 Street.
This solid brick church in Strathcona stands as a testimonial to the enduring faith of early south side pioneers. The building, now home to Knox Evangelical Free Church, was built in 1907 as Knox Presbyterian through the inspiration of Reverend David. G. McQueen.
The church was designed by Herbert Magoon, E.C. Hopkins and P. Leonard James of Edmonton, in Gothic Revival style, and built by Thomas Richards of Strathcona. In 1911, large organ pipes were installed and in 1949 a brick hall was constructed. Stained glass windows were added in 1957.
With the 1925 union of the Congregationalist, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, it became known as Knox United Church. In 1972, following the merger of the Knox congregation and nearby Metropolitan United Church, the building was purchased by the Evangelical Free Church.
One of the oldest remaining brick churches in Edmonton and a well-known religious landmark in Strathcona.

8403 - 104 Street.
This solid brick church in Strathcona stands as a testimonial to the enduring faith of early south side pioneers. The building, now home to Knox Evangelical Free Church, was built in 1907 as Knox Presbyterian through the inspiration of Reverend David. G. McQueen.
The church was designed by Herbert Magoon, E.C. Hopkins and P. Leonard James of Edmonton, in Gothic Revival style, and built by Thomas Richards of Strathcona. In 1911, large organ pipes were installed and in 1949 a brick hall was constructed. Stained glass windows were added in 1957.
With the 1925 union of the Congregationalist, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, it became known as Knox United Church. In 1972, following the merger of the Knox congregation and nearby Metropolitan United Church, the building was purchased by the Evangelical Free Church.
One of the oldest remaining brick churches in Edmonton and a well-known religious landmark in Strathcona.

11035 - 97 Street.
The Lambton Block was built in 1914 on Namayo Avenue, later to become 97 Street. It was built by Read - MacDonald - Brewster, General Contractors for $25,000. In order to accommodate the irregularly shaped lot, the building was constructed with six sides. The ground floor originally housed commercial retail stores, each with separate access to the basement. Later, these were replaced with additional apartment units.
Roland W. Lines, a prominent early architect, designed the Edwardian-style building. His work included the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Alexander Taylor School, and Norwood School. He later died in France while fighting in World War I.
The Lambton Block is valued for its association with its original owner, John Robert Boyle. Boyle was well known as a member of the Alberta Legislative Assembly, a minister of several different portfolios and Attorney General. In 1924, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Alberta where he served until his death in 1936. The Boyle community in Edmonton and the Alberta town of Boyle were named in his honour.
Another notable owner was Martin Hattersley, the leader of the federal Social Credit Party. He received approval from city council to convert the main floor of the building into a law office in 1980. The building has since reverted to residential use only.

10523 - 100 Avenue.
This building was erected in 1893 as the regional Land, Timber and Registry Office. It is the oldest Federal administration building in Alberta. During World War I it became the Victoria Armouries, serving the 19th Alberta Dragoons, and later the Edmonton Fusiliers and 19th Armoured Car Regiment. In 1949 it was taken over by the Alberta Department of Health.

8324 - 106 Street.
Margaret Martin, a widow, owned a 320-acre farm on this site at the turn of the 20th century. In 1899 Margaret and her husband, David, left their North Dakota home to settle in the Canadian North West. David set off with livestock and farm machinery in April to secure the land, and Margaret followed in July with their eleven children. Sadly, one small daughter died of pneumonia shortly after they arrived. Eighteen months later, David died of the same illness. The family buried both loved ones on their farm, at what is now Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Margaret commissioned the architectural firm of Magoon, Hopkins and James to design this Foursquare, Prairie-style home in 1907. The firm later became Magoon and MacDonald Associates that built the Metals Building, Tegler Building, McDougall United Church, Salvation Army Citadel, St. Stephen's College, and other Edmonton landmarks.
The Martin family moved into what was then 18 Second Street West, Strathcona, the only house on the west side of the street until 1910. The remaining area of Martin Estates, the name given to the newly subdivided farmland, eventually became the communities of Pleasantview and Parkallen.
Margaret died in 1940, leaving the home in her daughter Edith’s care. The Martin children created their own legacy in Edmonton. Grace Martin McEachern became a well known school teacher. Helen Martin married Cecil Rutherford, the only son of Alberta's first premier, A.C. Rutherford. David Quincy Martin worked for thirty years with the Alberta Liquor Control Board after marrying Lova Shaw, daughter of H.V. Shaw, proprietor of Edmonton Cigar Factory.

9538 - 107 Avenue
This twelve room school opened in 1912. The three - storey Tudor Gothic style building was designed by school board architect G.E. Turner and built by contractors Pheasey and Batson for a cost of $93,800. Among the features of the building are the red pressed brick and Bedford stone mullioned facade with a crenelated roof line, decorative shield embellishments, separate entrances for boys and girls, polished granite hallway floors, leaded windows, and original fireproof metal staircases. The grouped windows provided plenty of natural light, and each classroom was provided with its own cloakroom. There were manual training and domestic science rooms in the basement, a spacious library on the second floor, and an assembly hall with a skylight on the third floor. The assembly hall served as the gymnasium until the new gymnasium was added in 1961.
The school was named after Matthew McCauley, the first Mayor of the Town of Edmonton, and a MLA in the first Alberta Legislature. McCauley championed the cause of education, raising money through subscription to build Edmonton's first one room school. He was a member of the first Edmonton Public Board of School Trustees (1881), and was the first Edmonton School Board chairman.

10086 MacDonald Drive.
The Reverend George Millward McDougall (1821-1876) and his son Reverend John McDougall (1842-1917) initiated the first settlement outside the walls of Fort Edmonton on this site in 1871. In 1860, Rev. George McDougall was given charge of Methodist missions throughout the Hudson's Bay Company territories, and two years later he first visited the Edmonton area where his son established the Victoria mission fifty miles down the North Saskatchewan River near present-day Pakan. In 1863 the Rev. George McDougall, his wife Elizabeth, and their family, including John McDougall, arrived at Victoria, where they stayed until June 1871. The McDougalls moved to Edmonton in 1871 and began construction of a two-storey parsonage at this site. During 1871-73 their first church was constructed here as well; this church can now be seen at Fort Edmonton Park.
Originally attracted by the availability of land following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company to the new Dominion of Canada, the mission soon formed the focal point of settlement along the eastern boundary of the Hudson's Bay Company Reserve, and became the seed for the first significant urban growth outside Fort Edmonton itself.

10425 - 99 Avenue.
McKay Avenue School has played a significant role in the educational, social and political development of Edmonton and of Alberta.
The school was named after Dr. William M. MacKay, a Hudson's Bay Company officer and surgeon. Dr. Mackay served at several posts, including York Factory, Norway House, Dunvegan, Lesser Slave Lake and Fort Chipewyan. After retiring from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1898, Dr. MacKay moved to Edmonton with his family and opened a medical practice. A spelling error in the naming of the street in front of where the school now stands was perpetuated in the naming of the school.
This substantial three-storey brick school, designed by H.D. Johnston and contracted by R. J. Manson, was constructed over 1904 and 1905 and cost Edmonton Public Schools approximately $44,000 to build.
After the Province of Alberta was created in 1905, the school's third floor assembly hall housed the first two sessions of the Alberta Legislature, held in 1906 and 1907. In 1912, due to increased need for classroom space, the school was enlarged to the west.
McKay Avenue remained an operating school until 1983. At that time, the school board made the decision to restore the building as Edmonton Public Schools Archives and Museum.
Built using the then popular Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture, McKay Avenue School embodies the optimism of turn-of-the-century Edmonton. The exterior remains substantially unaltered, while the interior has been extensively restored to reflect its use as a school and the appearance of the third floor assembly hall during the time it housed Alberta's first Legislative Assembly.

11135 - 84 Avenue.
This home, constructed by Tom Leake, was built in 1913 and then valued at $4,500. It is one of the original, unaltered structures still remaining in the neighbourhood. Sarah McLellan immigrated from Scotland in 1906 and purchased the lot from Laurent Garneau in 1907. He was the Metis farmer who owned most of the land on which the University of Alberta and the Garneau community are now located.
This residence is a larger version of the four square architectural style home with Arts and Crafts characteristics.
From 1916 to 1922, the house was used as a nurses' residence for the nurses working with WWI casualties at the military hospital that was located where the University of Alberta Hospital stands today.