1915 – 1181 Portage Avenue (Robert Fletcher Building), Winnipeg, Manitoba
Originally built as a Ford Assembly Plant,
Originally built as a Ford Assembly Plant,
501 Marquette was the tallest commercial building in the city from the time it was completed in 1915 until the Foshay Tower was built in 1929.
Now a branch of Birks.
Built as the Province of Manitoba Power House to generate power for the Provincial Legislature and Law Courts buildings alongside.
Part of a complex of buildings from the 1880s through to the 1960s secondary school building.
Built of gray California granite with blue and gold burnished ironwork,
This theatre was opened in April 1915,
Designed by the architect S.
Developed by City Comptroller Duncan Steele Curry (1852-1925) on the site of a previous property owned by himself.
Three-storey Earl Grey is truly one of Winnipeg’s grand old schools with an impressive façade and a pair of asymmetrical entrance towers.