{"id":616,"date":"2023-05-30T16:50:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedobbingroup.com\/?page_id=616"},"modified":"2024-12-04T20:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:10:55","slug":"the-dobbin-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thedobbingroup.com\/?page_id=616","title":{"rendered":"The Dobbin House"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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1130 Kensington Road NW<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In 1999 The Dobbin Group undertook an extensive refurbishing of the 1130 building \u2013 from a two-story \u2018box\u2019 to a three-story Victorian style showpiece. The exterior is finished with wood and stucco and highlighted with river rock and custom-made iron works.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The new building was named\u00a0The Dobbin House<\/strong> and is home to many businesses. Office space on the third floor hosts the offices of The Dobbin Group, Ramage & Co, Ferguson Psychological Services, Taviston Inc. and Lift Psychology. Storefronts include our tenants Satsuki, Manana and The Naked Leaf.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This U-shaped office block, built by contractor Cart Albert Linquist in 1949-50, was a late addition to Kensington\u2019s commercial strip. It has housed a variety of medical and professional offices, as well as a detective agency and the Austrian Consulate. Local developer Chris Dobbin acquired the building in 1979 and renamed it Dobbin House.<\/p>

A 1999 alteration expanded the building to two storeys and brought a lost piece of Calgary\u2019s heritage to public view: The brass chandelier that now graces the main entrace hung originally in Henry Birks and Son\u2019s downton jewelry store at 314 \u2013 8 Avenue SW from 1929 until the building was demolished in 1975. The glass ball \u2013 actually two glass bowls held together by a frame \u2013 has turned lilac from age and exposure to sunlight. The primatic shade glass, wavy in appearance, was manufactured in the US by the Holophane Company.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Dobbin House 1130 Kensington Road NW In 1999 The Dobbin Group undertook an extensive refurbishing of the 1130 building \u2013 from a two-story \u2018box\u2019 to a three-story Victorian style showpiece. The exterior is finished with wood and stucco and highlighted with river rock and custom-made iron works. The new building was named\u00a0The Dobbin House […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":586,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-616","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedobbingroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedobbingroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedobbingroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedobbingroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedobbingroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedobbingroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/thedobbingroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions\/1481"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedobbingroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedobbingroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}