Ottawa Citizen profiles A Progressive Traditionalist

Designing Ottawa reporter Maria Cook explores the architectural history of the Sparks Street Bank of Nova Scotia building with the help of Glenn McArthur's A Progressive Traditionalist: John M. Lyle, Architect.

'John M. Lyle, the architect, was clearly proud of the 1923 building. He submitted a watercolour of the design as his diploma work when becoming a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1925.

'Even then, merchants on Sparks Street grumbled about the dark presence of banks of a shopping street, so Lyle built lamps into the façade.'

Read more at the Designing Ottawa blog.