Located on a midblock site between Bank and O’Connor Streets, the Wellington Building rests quietly and comfortably on its site, choosing to defer to its older and linked neighbour to the west.  This 6-storey structure, completed in 1959 is clad in the same Indiana limestone as the larger original portion of the building and works to acknowledge the existing building through the location of floors, scale of windows and dominant elements within its street-fronting elevations.

Contextually, the office space extends to the ground along Wellington Street, in keeping with its institutional character, while the Sparks Street façade includes ground floor street commercial frontage along with the current main public entrance to this now-government building.  At six storeys the addition works well on both streets, and acknowledges the street faces of the adjacent building.

Together the two parts of the building are part of a Federally-recognized heritage building and were recently subjected to a significant rehabilitation program that completely upgraded the interiors for its new House of Commons occupants.

While currently empty, the Sparks Street ground floor offers the greatest potential for positively enhancing the surrounding streets.  The space is available, although there is nothing to suggest that tenants are actively being sought at the time of this writing.  One potential use that would be ideally suited to a large portion of the Sparks Street ground floor would be a new downtown branch of the Ottawa Library once the current main branch moves westward to Lebreton Flats.