1890 – Notre Dame Du Portage Church, Kenora, Ontario
Architect: Senecal & Papineau
Founded in 1890,
Founded in 1890,
Built from 1897 onwards,
Solid local and regional courthouse in an institutionalised version of Edwardian.
Solid stone bank building in a vaguely Scottish Baronial style,
Now slightly down-at-heel, this once fine hotel is on Kenora’s Main Street and overlooks the lake.
Built as the Land Registry Building and used as such until 1964 when the province constructed a new building.
A small Anglican Cathedral,
Cenotaph commemorating the dead of the First World War completed in 1924.
Interesting modernist building constructed alongside the earlier church.
Interesting form but could have benefited from some extra storeys in height to make the proportions more pleasing.