1882 – Manitoba College, Ellice Ave., Winnipeg
Architect: Barber & Barber
Originally built as a Methodist College,
Originally built as a Methodist College,
The former Former Masonic Girl’s School was redeveloped by Bewleys as an hotel in the 1990s,
The Examination Schools were designed by Thomas Graham Jackson,
Perspective View including ground &
When built, this school was described as “away out on the prairie” because it was thought to be so far from the centre of Winnipeg.
Perspective view published in The Architect,
Perspective view including plans published in The Building News,
From 1798 there were two Masonic charities for clothing and educating sons of indigent Freemasons.
Published in The Building News,
Acknowledged as George Keller’s greatest building was the school erected on the Asylum Hill site in 1883.