Calgary’s most recognizable private estate.
1507 96 Avenue SW. Nearly 9,000 square feet of rebuilt residence, crowned by the largest privately-permitted rooftop in the city.
The Home
A house with a name.
In a city of anonymous luxury, Gargoyle House is something else — an address Calgarians know by sight, by story, and by reputation. Four restored concrete gargoyles watch from the rooftop. A neoclassical portico anchors the front.
Purchased in 2023 and reimagined through a documented $2.6M+ renovation, the home combines the bones of a 1990 estate with the systems and finishes of new construction. Every mechanical rebuilt. Every surface reconsidered. The rooftop alone was engineered with twenty-two steel I-beams and over fifty LVL beams — the foundation that makes a 3,000 sq ft permitted rooftop possible at all.
Property Details
| List Price | $4,995,000 |
| Appraised Value | $5,100,000 · BMO 2025 |
| Address | 1507 96 Avenue SW |
| Community | Pump Hill, Calgary SW |
| Property Type | Detached 2-Storey + Finished Basement |
| Bedrooms | 8 (Flexible) |
| Bathrooms | 7 full · 1 half |
| Above Grade | 7,011 sq ft |
| Developed Lower Level | 1,692 sq ft |
| Rooftop Terrace | 2,991 sq ft (permitted) |
| Year Built | 1990 · rebuilt 2023–2026 |
| Secondary Suite | Legal (main floor) |
| Parking | Attached 4-car garage |
Floor by Floor
Nearly 9,000 square feet, floor by floor.
Eight bedrooms, seven and a half baths, three finished floors, a permitted rooftop, and a garage that doubles as a clubhouse — each rebuilt with intent. Tap a thumbnail to explore each level — or walk the whole house yourself.
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The Rooftop
2,991 sq ft. Permitted. Unrepeatable.
Twenty-two engineered steel I-beams. Over fifty LVL beams. 42-inch parapet walls to current code, and full sun from all four directions for most of the day. A 15-foot granite run holds the built-in BBQ and outdoor kitchen. A six-person Trevi spa sits at the parapet edge facing downtown, beside a lit 300 sq ft putting green. Wired for a future barrel sauna and cold plunge.
The Main Floor
Two kitchens. One grand ballroom.
Originally permitted in 1990 with a room City records still call the Grand Ballroom — the space that is now the kitchen — the main floor was rebuilt around hosting. The chef's kitchen tucks serious cooking out of sight — Wolf range, Sub-Zero, Calacatta-pattern quartz, fluted walnut islands. The Centre Bar sits twenty feet away with a ten-seat island and integrated coffee station, while the living room pairs a Dekton fireplace with a 16-foot screen and a glass wine room with steel accents.
The Suite
A residence within a residence.
The main-floor suite is a fully self-contained dwelling — its own kitchen, separate exterior entrance, dedicated heating and HRV, and an ensuite restored from the home's original 1990 primary bath. Fully permitted as a legal secondary suite, it's currently a generous studio but designed to expand through the west wing into a true two-bedroom, two-bath private residence with its own office.
The Upper Level
Five bedrooms, a bar, and a shower people remember.
Five flexible bedrooms including the primary, with a feature wall by Two Birds, a built-out walk-in closet, and a marble-and-walnut spa ensuite with a Thermasol steam package. The Floral Feature Shower — full-height marble flanking a custom black-and-white panel, dual rain heads, body sprays — is the level's signature moment. A staircase bar at the landing turns the rooftop into an extension of the home.
The Lower Level
Not a basement. A destination floor.
Rebuilt from the concrete up: reinsulated walls, soundproofed ceilings, premium luxury vinyl, and a layout designed as an entertainment floor. An oversized back bar in matte charcoal and quartz — brass hardware, an underlit walnut display shelf, and a gold-veined stone backsplash — anchors the room, opposite a long sit-up bar and an AWOL Vision 4K laser projector wall. The Glass Gym — glass partitions with steel accents, mirrored walls, rubber flooring — and a second glass wine room complete the level.
Garage / Golf Clubhouse
A four-car garage. A golf clubhouse. A private nightclub.
The attached four-car garage (≈20' × 43') hides a fully-built golf simulator — ProTee VX launch monitor, GSPro software, BenQ projector, and a retractable hitting enclosure that deploys by remote in sixty seconds. Cars in, enclosure down, cars out. In event mode, track-mounted LED fixtures, a custom neon wall, and a second projector turn it into dance-floor-scale space that has hosted DJ-driven parties for hundreds.
Built to Host
Some homes host dinner for eight. This one has hosted three hundred.
Entertaining isn’t a feature of Gargoyle House — it’s the architecture. City records still call what is now the kitchen the Grand Ballroom, and the house was rebuilt around that inheritance. Seven places built to pour or plate — three of them full bars: the ten-seat Centre Bar off the chef’s kitchen, the basement bar, and the staircase bar at the upper landing — plus the chef’s kitchen itself, the rooftop’s outdoor kitchen, the suite kitchenette and the garage clubhouse with its own bar ledge, a four-car garage that turns into a nightclub after dark.
And the house resizes to the party: the two main dining tables are Canadian-made Transformer Tables — an 18-inch console one hour, a 10-foot table seating twelve the next — while Murphy beds and sofa beds throughout flex rooms between sleeping and space. The rooftop seats forty for dinner and has hosted a hundred and fifty. The house? Three hundred and more, at least half a dozen times. No private residence in Calgary was built to do this.
The Renovation
A documented $2.6M+ rebuild.
Taken to the studs and rebuilt to new-construction standard over three years — owner-led by Reimagine Builders, the seller’s construction company, with a full-time site team in the home from start to finish. The figures combine third-party trade invoices with Reimagine’s internal labour at cost; a comparable scope through an external general contractor would typically have run 10–15% higher.
See the Full RenovationWho This Home Rewards
Built for four kinds of buyer.
Most luxury homes serve one purpose well. This one was rebuilt to serve several — and the right buyer recognizes which one matches their life.
The Lifestyle Owner
The host. Two kitchens, three bars, a 2,991 sq ft rooftop, and documented capacity for three hundred guests — hosting infrastructure with a house wrapped around it.
The Investor-Operator
A trophy that pays. Stampede-week pricing of $4,500–$6,500/night and a stabilized $300–400K projection anchored to a real ownership comparable.
The Hybrid Buyer
A residence that funds itself. Live in the home and operate the legal, self-contained suite on Airbnb — or run the full property between stays.
The Multigenerational Family
Family proximity without friction. A main-floor suite with its own entrance, kitchen, ensuite, and heating — expandable to a true two-bedroom residence.
The Numbers
A trophy that can pay its own way.
Beyond the residence is a documented short-term-rental story: Stampede-week rates of $4,500–$6,500 per night, a stabilized $300–400K annual projection, and a legal suite that lets an owner live in the home while it earns. Trailing revenue, occupancy and the STR licence file are available to qualified buyers.
See the Numbers
Pump Hill
Quietly prestigious. Intentionally low-density.
One of Calgary’s most established estate enclaves — a small pocket of large, treed lots bordered by the Glenmore Reservoir pathway system, minutes from Rockyview Hospital, Chinook Centre and the city’s top schools, and twelve minutes to downtown.
Explore Pump HillQuietly Available Before MLS
An invitation, not a listing.
Gargoyle House is being introduced to a select group of agents and qualified buyers ahead of any public listing. We’d rather make the right match than run the fastest process.