1873 – Hotel Winnipeg, Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architects: Walter Chesterton / Samuel Hooper
Small hotel building on Main Street,
Small hotel building on Main Street,
Designed by local architect James Chisholm,
Once one of Winnipeg’s most luxurious hotels,
The original grand railway hotel in Winnipeg,
Built at a cost of $20,000 and designed by H.S.
Originally conceived as the Cauchon Block,
Built as an hotel in 1906 and still in operation,
Formerly a seedy, down-at-hell rooming hotel,
The 18th and most luxurious of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s hotels,
Replacing an older hotel destroyed by fire,