1907 – Former Bank of Toronto, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Montreal architect H.C. Stone was hired to plan the structure in collaboration with his Winnipeg associate Leonard T. Bristow (1876-1966). Built at a cost of over $200,000, the banking hall interior, rising 15 feet, featured paneled walls and columns of polished white Italian marble bathed in natural light from a light well in the center of the building. Coffered ceilings, columned spaces and marble counters provided the atmosphere of a Roman temple. Offices, finished in oak, on the upper floors could be reached by an elevator or by a marble-treaded staircase.

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