1873 – Hotel Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Small hotel building on Main Street, where there was once many due to the railway station.
Small hotel building on Main Street, where there was once many due to the railway station.
Built at Main & York, to replace an earlier store of 1874 further south on Main Street,
Constructed as the Winnipeg Post Office and Customs Office, it was only used as such until 1908, when a new post office building was constructed on Portage Avenue.
Originally constructed on the grounds of the second Winnipeg City Hall in 1886. To make way for the new city hall,
Beautiful turned corner with banking hall. Located at 440 Main Street, and demolished in 1966.
Winnipeg’s first steel framed building at seven storeys high. Merchants Bank of Canada was taken over by the Bank of Montreal in the early 1920s.
The Strathcona block was built for Lord Strathcona as an elite residential building on the corner of Main Street and Broadway in 1902.
The Bank of British North America at 436 Main Street is the only neo-Palladian banking hall remaining in Winnipeg,
The oldest Chicago School skyscraper still standing in Western Canada was built for the Union Bank of Canada and once boasted the tallest flagpole in the British Empire.
Originally conceived as the Cauchon Block, and then converted into an upmarket hotel in 1905 by architects Alexander &