An Edmonton history buff is running a March Madness-style bracket to get people excited about the city’s architecture. 

Dan Rose, former chair of the Edmonton Historical Board, says his Arch Madness bracket is a “low stakes and safe way to get people excited” about historic architecture.

He hopes the contest encourages Edmontonians to fall in love with the city’s historic buildings.

“They really speak to the history — the good and the bad — of how our city has come about and where we’ve come from,” Rose said in an interview this week with CBC’s Edmonton AM.

Dan Rose is a local history buff and former chair of the Edmonton Historical Board. He’s holding his own March Madness tournament on Twitter featuring Edmonton’s oldest buildings. 5:20

Each day Rose posts a new head-to-head match-up, and the landmark garnering the most votes moves on to the next round of voting.

Hundreds of people on Twitter and Instagram have already voted for their favourites.

A wide range of architectural periods is included, as the brackets include buildings from the Strathcona Hotel, built in 1891, to the CN Tower, which was completed in 1966.

But Rose points out that while there’s diversity in eras and design styles, they don’t reflect the diversity of the city itself.

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