"Orphaned" Houses of Winnipeg's Downtown

These houses have survived from when downtown had residential areas

130 Fort Street, Swanson House,  1902

23 Kennedy, Reid House, 1912
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Kennedy23-overview.pdf

415 Graham

351 Assiniboine, Kerr House, 1887
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-consv/Assiniboine%20351-long.pdf

390 Assiniboine (demolished 2012)

434 Assiniboine, Hamilton House, 1894
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Assiniboine434-overview.pdf

432 Assiniboine, Matthewson House, 1890
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Assiniboine432-overview.pdf

88 Adelaide, Michael Kelly House, 1882
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-consv/Adelaide88-long.pdf

34 Carlton, Bathgate House, 1905
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Carlton34-overview.pdf

61 Carlton, MacDonald House (Dalnavert Museum), 1895
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-consv/Carlton61-long.pdf

175 Donald , 1895

22 Edmonton, Black House, 1893
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Edmonton22-overview.pdf

26 Edmonton, Harris House, 1902
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-consv/Edmonton%2026-long.pdf

37 Edmonton, Belcher House 1900
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Edmonton37-overview.pdf

45 Edmonton, Michael Kelly House #2, 1909
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Edmonton45-overview.pdf

236 Edmonton (Behind Ming Court), 1894

368 Edmonton, Hoover & Town Duplex, 1901
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-consv/Edmonton368-short.pdf

454 Edmonton, Benard House, 1903
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-consv/Edmonton454-long.pdf

99 George, Burridge House, 1893
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/George99-overview.pdf

97 George, 1892

95 George, 1949

306 Edwin, Perkins House, 1900

340 Elgin, 1897

448 Cumberland, Duplex, 1905

392 Kennedy, 1905

394 Kennedy, 1905

367 Kennedy , Glamour Terrace, 1902

55 Hargrave, Glines House (Tremblay Apts) 1906
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-consv/Hargrave55-long.pdf

73 Hargrave, Gilroy House, 1902
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Hargrave73-overview.pdf

40 Martha, Frankfurter Terrace, 1883
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Hargrave73-overview.pdf

132 Pioneer (demolished or to be demolished)

51 Balmoral, Milner House, 1909
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-consv/Balmoral51-long.pdf

200 Colony , Scott House, 1904
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Colony200-overview.pdf

204 Colony, MacKay House, 1904
http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Colony204-overview.pdf

219 Colony, 1896(house) Store built 1930s?

252 Good, 1904

362 Young, 1905

38 Maple, 1904

A catalog of Winnipeg's mansard roofed houses, a popular building style in the 1880s and 1890s

1. 291 Magnus (built 1885)
2. 459 Bannatyne (1882)
3. 524 Balmoral (1886)
4. 60 Gertie (1882)
5. 601 Clifton (1900)
6. 597 Young (1904)
7. 149 Ellen (1899) (rear section)
8. 846 McDermot (1902) gambrel/mansard
9. 1183 Wolseley (1911)
10. 347 Des Meurons (1908)
11. 68 Prince Edward (1894)
12. 101 Lorne (1881) Samuel Ress House
13. 59 Scotia (1887) Millidge House
14. The last house on Wellington just east of Wellington Park, south side (1940s)
15. 556 Alexander duplex (1882)
16.134 Higgins (1883) Fry House
17. 221 Dumoulin (1882) Gingras House (I think the owner or his son won the Stanley Cup with the Victorias)
18. 158 Evanson (1894) Hartley House
19. 153 Rue Aubert
20.  494 College (1906-07) "The Castle| Biollo/Cantor House
21.  351 Assiniboine (1887) Kerr House
22.  432 Bannatyne (1882)
23. 123 Euclid (1889) TW Taylor House. another mansard was next door but was demolished
24. 255 Gunnell (1895) W.W.W. Wortman House

Another unusual mansard house can be found just east of the Perimeter Highway, Follow #1 to Deacons Road ( A&W) Turn north, turn east on Center Line Road, its about 3-4 miles east, north side of the road.

other buildings
 Miserecordia Hospital (1901)
St. Mary's Academy (1902-03)
Trappist's Monastery Guesthouse (1912)
St Boiface College (1881) radio station building now

Icelandic heritage in Winnipeg

With Gimli's Islendingedagurinn (Icelandic Festival) less than a month away, and myself being a proud Icelandic-Canadian, I thought I would do some research on the historic structures in Winnipeg that have connections to the Icelandic community.  You will notice that many of the buildings are clustered in the neighborhood surrounding Health Sciences Center. 

1. Olafson House, Built 1895, 539 William Avenue. A beautiful example of Queen Anne architecture. Unique corner turret.

2. Bardal Block (Bardal Funeral Home) Built in 1906. 843 Sherbrook Street

3. Heimskringla Building Built 1904 .  Icelandic language newspaper

4. Baldwin Baldwinson House Built 1907 727 Sherbrook, next door to Heimskringla Building. He was editor of the newspaper

5. Sterling Bank built 1911. Current home of Logberg-Heimskringla paper.

6. Hekla Apartments built 1911.  260 Toronto

7. Petursson House, built 1914, 616 Alverstone.  Queen Anne style home

8. Scandinavian Mission Church built 1897 corner of Logan and Ellen.

9. Scandinavian Cultural Center 764 Erin Street

addition to my post on Selkirk ave

I recently purchased a 1955 Winnipeg CityGuide, i found some interesting notes to add.

788 Selkirk was known as the Ogarenko Block
640 Selkirk Kepman Apartments
408 Harrison Block (long demolished)
396 Gronbach Block
390 Grosney Bldg
376 (|Alekno Block) was known in 1955 as the \Mitchell Block. Perhaps Mitchell's Meat Market?
379 Skraba Apts (demolished)

267 Harris Block was demolished 2 weeks ago

at 208 Selkirk and 962 Main was the site of Fairbairn Hall




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City of Winnipeg's Historical Buildings Inventory

The City of Winnipeg keeps a inventory of its historic buildings.  These buildings are not on the Heritage Conservation list, but are recognized as structures with historic value. The recent loss of the former Regal Furniture Building on Arlington and Logan (not on inventory) highlights the city's need to keep a better inventory of their history.

The following buildings are missing from the Inventory, and recieve no protection from demolition:

1. Kaye's Auction House (1903-06)
2. Assiniboine School (1922)
3. Parkview Building (Portage Avenue @ Parkview St)
4. 655 Logan Avenue
5. nearly all of the commercial blocks on Osborne between River and Corydon
6. former Northern Bank, Main at Selkirk
7. M.J. Roofing (Sinclair St at Dufferin)
8. former Merchants bank Selkirk at Arlington (1920)
9. Mansfield Court on Ellice
10. Manwin Hotel (1882)
11. Mac's/Ellice Cafe & Theater
12. Palace Theater
13. Cathedral Avenue Fire Station
14. Lord Kitchener School (1915)
15. Lord Wolseley School (1915)
16. former John Deere warehouse (Border Glass)
17. Hurtig Building (1902)
18. 516, 524, and 584 Balmoral (1884-1895)
19. Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Orthodox Church (1952)
20. Hamilton House (1910)
21. Warehouse, 318 Ross (1905)
22. Western Paint Building (1908)
23. 103 Fulham (1931)
24. Fort Rouge United Church
25.  Duplex, 448 Cumberland
26. Dominion Bridge Works (1907)
27. Dominion Express Building (1904)
28. CNIB/AFM Building (1928)
29. California Fruit MArket
30. Bardal Funeral Home (1906)
31. former Bank of Toronto, Academy Road (1934)
32. Rose Theater
33. Roxy Theater
34. Lechtzier Turkish Baths (King St. next to S. A. Citadel) (1903)
35. Warehouse, 83 Kate (1909)
36. Warehouse, 468 Ross (1910)
37. St. Edward's Convent (1920-22)
38. St. James Park Block
39. St. Regis Hotel (1909)
40. Warehouse, 312 William (1912)
41. Tec Voc High School (1949-51)
42. WW1 Cenotaph, Memorial Blvd (1928)


These buildings deserve the same measure of protection.  Surely they are mor worthy of historical value than these:
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Annabella151-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Bannerman99-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Cornish29-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Dafoe83-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Dumoulin348-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/EastGate96-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Higgins55-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Magnus469-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Main822-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/MiddleGate40-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Scotia65-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/Selkirk181-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/WestGate66-overview.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-inventory/William288-overview.pdf

Selkirk Avenue

The Free Press recently mentioned the North End, specifically Selkirk Avenue between Arlington and Main, as being a historic district, built between 1910-1935. Starting at Arlington Street, the historic commercial blocks are:

*indicates that the building is on the City's Historical Inventory

804 : former Merchant's Bank (now a Ukrainian Assocation), 1920
795:  now KEEP Child Care,
788: now Doug Martindale, MLA
735: now Dilit's Bakery & Grocery
Parr Street
702: vacant
696: now North End Tattoo
675
McKenzie Street
640: Now an apartment block
623: Now Paradis & Dennis
621/619: now Western Union & Ukrainian Export
620: Ukranian Veterans Building, Modernist
613: Built 1932
606: former bank, now Oyate Tipi Cumini Yape
McGregor Street
*602 Budnik Block 1911, 1928 (Baltona Meats)
*594 Budnik Annex 1929
592 former B. Dyma Dentist Office, now Aban Denture Clinic
586
*583 Wasserman Block, 1911
571
*567 Aurora Block 1914
*565 Miles Block 1911
553
551
*541 Merchants Hotel /Steiman Block 1913
Andrews Street
530 now K& D Food Store
511 now MCC Thrift Store
509  now NECRC Office
506
502
501 Palace Theater 1912
Powers Street (Blocked off)
460
423 Wawel Meat Market
417 Weselake Building 1928
415 now Money Mart
Salter Street
409, former Union Bank, now Chochys Pawn, 1918
407 now Giant Food Mart
399 now Accurate Washer & Appliance
394 now North End Womens Resource Center
390 Regnimal Block
387 "Vote Communist" House 1904
386 Now Up Shoppe
380 Mitchell's Meat Market
377 (house) 1903
376 Alekno Block 1914
372 now Ideal Mfg Co
Aikens Street
Robinson Street
Charles Street
281 former Hi-tech Art Gallery now Vacant
267 vacant
*239 St Giles Church /Queen's Theater 1890
King Street
213 now Mikos Denture Clinic
968 Main Street @ Selkirk, Former Northern Bank/Royal Bank, now Dr. Dang's Medical Clinic 1905

Lost treasures

 I was thinking the other day, and i realized it has been nearly ten years since i moved to Winnipeg (December 2001). That got me to thinking, how many historic structures we have lost since then.

1. Eaton's Store  (MTS Centre)
2. Epic/Regent Theater (WRHA)
3. Ogilvie Mills (Fire)
4. Starland Theater (WRHA)
5. Smart Bag Company Building (1880s section)  (Sport MB expansion)
6. Regal Furniture Company Building (Minhas Creek expansion)
7. Winnipeg Roller Skating Rink (University of Winnipeg)
8. Amy Street Steam Plant  (demolished)
9. Union Stockyards Building (demolished - neglect)
10. Somerset School (Shopper's Drug Mart)
11. Provencher Bridge (replaced)
12. Club/Jack's Hotel (WRHA)
13. Electric Railway Chambers Annex (garden for Canwest Building)
14. Weston Bakery (HSC)
15. Trick Block (gravel parking lot for Dr. Dang's Medical Clinic)
16. Main Meats (WHRA)
17. Salisbury School #2
18. Anna Gibson School (MBC School expansion)
19. Florence Nightingale School (housing development)
20. Phoenix Block (vacant lot, neglect)
21. Maison Lambert (now vacant lot)
22. Maison Joseph Royal (Place Joseph Royal condos)
23. Villiers Duplex from 1881 (demolished)
24. Brooklands "red" School (deemed outdated)
25. Transcona Meats  (fire)
26. Nairn Commercial Block (Props Snowboarding) (fire)
27. Able Wholesale (fire)
28. Dennistoun House

Pending:

• Robert/Coronation/Shanghai Building
• Louise Bridge?
• Ellice @ Wall Marina-style Safeway?

On the other hand, some historic structures have been saved:

1. Barber house (fire - currently rebuilding)
2. Ryan Block (rebuilt facade)
3. 6 Historic buildings comprising the RRC Princess street campus
4. All People's Mission Sutherland
5. Church of Christ Scientist
6. 256 Bushnell (fire)
7. Albert Street Business Block
8. Clarendon Hotel (MTS Centre Exhibition Hall)