1923 – Medical Arts Building, Graham Ave., Winnipeg

Demolished in early 1970s to provide carparking space for newly constructed replacement Medical Arts Building to the rear.

“The Medical Arts Building is a four storey and basement building 100 feet by 120 feet, located at the corner of Graham Avenue and Kennedy Street. It is to be occupied exclusively ‘by ‘doctors and is owned by them. The building is of reinforced concrete skeleton frame construction designed for a future three stories. The exterior walls are of a light colored Tee Pee Moka brick facing with 8 inch back-up tile and with Tyndall stone trim. All interior partitions are of 3 inch and 4 inch tile. The trim throughout the ‘building is of oak, of sanitary type, and all doors are slab doors with or without glass panels and transom heads depending on the requirements of the different doctors. The floors are maple in the offices, and terrazzo in the corridors. The main entrance is finished in Tyndall stone and ornamental plaster. Stair and elevator enclosures are fireproof.

There are approximately seventy doctors in the building, and each doctor after having his space alloted was permitted to lay out his partitions and fixtures to suit his own requirements ; as a result, the layouts vary considerably. In order to accommodate the large number of plumbing fixtures required (these being 150 plumbing fixtures in the building) complete plumbing stacks were run up each interior column and. the maple floor kept at sufficient height to permit connections to be run under the floor from the stacks to any location. Compressed air and gas is also available in all offices. Each doctor is supplied with all the light outlets, fixtures, and base plugs required, as well as a separate power service to take care of heavier loads than can be handled on the lighting circuit. The building is also equipped with a separate X-ray service for those who require it. Most of the doctors using X-ray have their offices in the basement, the basement being finished the same as the other floors, with windows 4 ft. 6 in. high. The first floor is 6 ft. above grade.

The building will cost complete approximately $250,000, and will be occupied on March 1, 1923. J. D. Atchison & Company are the architects.”
Engineering and Contract Record, January 7 1923

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