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.
Winnipeg’s first steel framed building at seven storeys high with an elaborate couple of floors to the top.
The Merchants Bank of Canada,
This former bank was designed by the Montreal architectural firm of Taylor,
Built in 1907,
Designed by prominent architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury in 1907,
A solid early twentieth century Neo-classical bank building.
As at the Windsor branch by the same architects,
The Montreal-based Merchants Bank first established Vancouver offices in 1906 at 337 Carrall Street,
According to the architectural press of the day,
Described at the time: “In the interior of this branch of the Merchants Bank,