1953 – Silver Heights Shopping Centre, Portage Ave., Winnipeg
Architect: A.B. Stovel
Modern strip mall very much designed as a neighbourhood hub –
1954 – Grotto of our Lady of Lourdes, Cook’s Creek, Manitoba
Architect: Fr. Philip Ruh
Begun in 1954 by Father Philip Ruh,
1954 – The Toronto-Dominion Bank Building, Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
Architect: Northwood & Chivers
Commisioned by the Bank of Toronto as its Winnipeg Branch and Regional Headquarters.
1955 – Canada Life Assurance / Great West Life, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Marani & Morris / Moody & Moore
Designed as a corporate headquarters for Great West Life Assurance after they outgrew their Lombard Avenue premises,
1955 – Dayton Building, Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
Architect: Green Blankstein Russell Associates
Built after its predecessor store burned down in the enormous Time Building fire of June 1954,
1956 – Our Lady of Victory, Osborne Street, Winnipeg
Architect: Roy Sellors
Established as a parish in 1946 following the Second World War,
1957 – 385 St Mary Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Waisman Ross
Interesting and compact two storey office building in a Miesian idiom,
1957 – Bear Pit, Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg
Architect: Smith Carter Katelnikoff
Absolutely impossible to think that a concrete enclosure such as this could be built in a zoo today.
1957 – Former Canadian Bank of Commerce, Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Green Blankstein Russell
Purpose built bank branch after a fire razed the previous building on the site.
1957 – Foster Marks Building, 280 Smith Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Moody & Moore
Part of a row of three Modernist buildings from the 1950s and ’60s.
