1888 – Winnipeg Lodging & Coffee House, Lombard Avenue, Winnipeg
Architect: Charles H. Wheeler
The Winnipeg Lodging and Coffee House,
The Winnipeg Lodging and Coffee House,
Winnipeg’s first steel framed building at seven storeys high with an elaborate couple of floors to the top.
Fantastic warehouse in the almost ubiquitous yellow brick with stone dressings that characterises much of this part of the Exchange.
The center of commerce in The Exchange District,
The Union Trust Tower occupies an unusually long and narrow site at the corner of Lombard Avenue and Main Street.
Erected for one of Western Canada’s largest financial institutions,
Considered one of the finest examples of modernist architecture in the city,
At 124 metres and 34 floors,