The Pigott Building is an 18-storey ()

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building located at 36 James Street South in downtown

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, Canada. This

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style building was designed by Hamilton architects Bernard and Fred Prack and is designated under the ''

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''. Built for $1,000,000, The Pigott Building was originally an office building and was Hamilton's first

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. Named after the construction company that built it, the Pigott Construction Company, many of Hamilton's landmarks were built by the company. Some of these include the Canadian Westinghouse offices, the Bank of Montreal Building (1928) on James Street North,

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...

(1930),

Westdale Secondary School Westdale Secondary School is a public high school founded in 1931 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is a school in the city of Hamilton and is located in Westdale Village, a suburb in the west-end of the city. It is administered by the Hamilton ...

(1931), Cathedral of Christ the King (1933), the

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bridge (1958),

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(1960) and

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(1985) on

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& Bay Streets. Pigott also built some of

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's largest industrial plants and finest buildings: the

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, Toronto;

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at Niagara Falls, Crown Life Insurance Company head office, Toronto;

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, Ottawa; a plant for

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, Oshawa, and buildings for A. V. Roe Company in Malton. It was at this location that the Canadian Club Movement had its beginning on December 6, 1892.

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Hamilton Halton Construction Hall of Fame: Joseph Pigott
* ttp://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?c307 Hamilton Skyscraper page- diagramsbr>Canadian Club of Hamilton: History
Office buildings completed in 1929 Buildings and structures in Hamilton, Ontario Art Deco architecture in Canada Residential condominiums in Canada Gothic Revival architecture in Canada

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