St. Paul’s College was a Jesuit college, founded in 1926 by Jesuits and originally based in central Winnipeg.
Part of the Civic Centre develeopment project which included a new City Hall, and police headquarters.
Architects concept from 1960 of a new airport terminal for Winnipeg. Eventually completed in 1963,
The Manitoba Centennial Centre was a project begun in the 1960s aimed at reinvigorating the downtown.
The present St. Nicholas Church was designed in the early nineteen sixties by the architectural firm of Green Blankstein Russell Associates.
After the previous City Hall developed structural problems neccessitating the removal of parts of the building,
Located across the street from the Civic Centre from the same period,
An elegant piece of late 60’s modernism, the Norquay building has an understated architectural quality.
Horrendous building with little or no human scale or charm. What is most upsetting about this building which occupies an entire block is that the previous Post Office building was a fine brick and stone edifice on nearby Portage Avenue.
Built between 1956-58 to to replace an earlier church of 1927, this modern building is constructed of the local Tyndall stone and brick.
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