Wellington Building

The Wellington Building is a Beaux-Arts architecture office building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was built between 1925 and 1927 as Canadian headquarters of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

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Type: Commercial building
Description: building in Ottawa, Canada
Address: 180 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bank of Canada Museum and Parliament Hill.

Bank of Canada Museum

Museum

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The Bank of Canada Museum, formerly known as the Currency Museum. The Bank of Canada Museum is a cultural attraction located in downtown Ottawa, Canada's capital city.

Parliament Hill

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Parliament Hill is an area of Crown land on the southern bank of the Ottawa River that houses the Parliament of Canada in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. It accommodates a suite of Gothic revival buildings whose architectural elements were chosen to evoke the history of parliamentary democracy.

Victoria Building

Government office

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The Victoria Building is an Art Deco office building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 140 Wellington Street, just across from the Parliament of Canada. Victoria Building is situated 150 metres northeast of Wellington Building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Centretown and Ottawa.

Centretown

Suburb

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Centretown is a neighbourhood in Somerset Ward, in central Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is defined by the city as "the area bounded on the north by Gloucester Street and Lisgar Street, on the east by the Rideau Canal, on the south by the Queensway freeway and on the west by Bronson Avenue." Traditionally it was all of Ottawa west of the Rideau Canal, while Lower Town was everything to the east.

Ottawa

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Ottawa is Canada's capital. With over a million citizens, it is Canada's fourth-largest city, and Ontario's second-largest city. Visitors often come to Ottawa to see Parliament Hill and Canada's national museums, but the city also has much shopping, many restaurants, and lively nightlife.

ByWard Market

Neighborhood

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The ByWard Market is a retail and entertainment district in the downtown core of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to the east of Parliament Hill and Major's Hill Park.

Wellington Building

Categories: government building, government office, building, and office
Location: Ward 14, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude

45.42174° or 45° 25′ 18″ north

Longitude

-75.70103° or 75° 42′ 4″ west

Levels

Open location code

87Q6C7CX+MH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 40836248

OpenStreetMap feature

building=commercial

OpenStreetMap feature

office=government

Wikidata ID

Q7981337

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to French—“Wellington Building” goes by many names.

Chinese: “威靈頓大廈”
French: “édifice Wellington”
French: “Édifice Wellington”

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Highlights include Parliament: The Immersive Experience and National Press Building.

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