Main Street Winnipeg

1899 – Dominion Bank, 440 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Beautiful turned corner with banking hall.

1902 – Merchants Bank, Main Street, Winnipeg

Winnipeg’s first steel framed building at seven storeys high with an elaborate couple of floors to the top.

1902 – Strathcona Block, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Strathcona block was built for Lord Strathcona as an elite residential building on the corner of Main Street and Broadway in 1902.

1903 – Newmac Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Architect: Taylor & Gordon

The Bank of British North America at 436 Main Street is the only neo-Palladian banking hall remaining in Winnipeg,

1904 – Union Tower, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Architect: Darling & Pearson

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.

1905 – Empire Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Architect: Alexander & William Melville

Originally conceived as the Cauchon Block,

1906 – No. 662 Main Street, Bell Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Architect: Joseph Bernhart

Formerly a seedy, down-at-hell rooming hotel,

1907 – Former Bank of Toronto, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Architect: Howard C. Stone

Montreal architect H.C. Stone was hired to plan the structure in collaboration with his Winnipeg associate L.

1907 – Imperial Bank, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Architect: Darling & Pearson

The 1906 Imperial Bank on Main Street is an example of the Classical Revival or Neo-classical style that came to prominence for large public structures in North America after the turn of the century.