1910 – McLaren Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba
The McLaren family were a prominent Winnipeg hotelling family owning a number of establishments including the Brunswick (Main and Rupert),
The McLaren family were a prominent Winnipeg hotelling family owning a number of establishments including the Brunswick (Main and Rupert),
Brightest survivor of “City of Lights” era, with 13,000 lightbulbs that continue to illuminate the exterior at night.
One of the few remaining older buildings on this quay, as most of the former industrial premises have been pulled down for redevelopment.
Designed by Albert R. Ross, who designed many Carnegie libraries, and the Pueblo County Courthouse in Colorado,
A stark and obvious example of the Exchange warehouse developed in two stages (which many were) – the original four floors received a vastly different treatment than the final three stories whiuch were added circa 1910.
This large stone and stucco building with the half-timbering over the upper levels, was the last home of Mark Fortune.
Originally built as a Presbyterian Church, this large brick building is quite clumsy in design.
A long drawn out project, the Parnell Monument was designed by Dublin-born American sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens with the assistance of two architects –
A fine little library originally endowed by Andrew Carnegie, and the result of an architectural competition in 1908.
Completed in 1909 or early 1910, and later destroyed.