2. The Fairmont Banff Springs or simply the Banff Springs Hotel
(also known as “Castle in the Rockies”) is a former railway hotel
constructed in Scottish Baronial style located in Banff National
Park, Alberta, Canada. The original hotel, designed by American
architect Bruce Price, was built between spring of 1887 and 1888 by
the Canadian Pacific Railway, at the instigation of its
President, William Cornelius Van Horne. The hotel was publicly
opened on June 1, 1888. Starting in 1911, a wholly new hotel was
built in stages to replace the 1888 structure. The new hotel was
designed by another American architect, Walter S. Painter.
Compared with Price's Shingle style-influenced wooden
structure, Painter's new hotel was built of concrete and faced with
stone.

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