1886 – Post Office, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Constructed as the Winnipeg Post Office and Customs Office, it was only used as such until 1908, when a new post office building was constructed on Portage Avenue.
1886 – Volunteer Monument, Main Street, Winnipeg
Architect: Samuel Hooper
Originally constructed on the grounds of the second Winnipeg City Hall in 1886. To make way for the new city hall,
1902 – Merchants Bank, Main Street, Winnipeg
Architect: Taylor & Gordon
Winnipeg’s first steel framed building at seven storeys high. Merchants Bank of Canada was taken over by the Bank of Montreal in the early 1920s.
1899 – Dominion Bank, 440 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Darling & Pearson
Beautiful turned corner with banking hall. Located at 440 Main Street, and demolished in 1966.
1905 – Empire Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Alexander & William Melville
Originally conceived as the Cauchon Block, and then converted into an upmarket hotel in 1905 by architects Alexander &
1881 – Hudson’s Bay Company, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Balston C. Kenway
Built at Main & York, to replace an earlier store of 1874 further south on Main Street,
1902 – Strathcona Block, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: George Creeford Browne
The Strathcona block was built for Lord Strathcona as an elite residential building on the corner of Main Street and Broadway in 1902.
1907 – Unbuilt Tower Proposal, Main Street, Winnipeg
Architect: John D. Atchison
Unbuilt 14-storey proposal for an office building on the east side of Main Street, between McDermot and Bannatyne.
1967 – Manitoba Museum & Planetarium, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Associated Architects for the Manitoba Centennial Centre
The Manitoba Centennial Centre was a project begun in the 1960s aimed at reinvigorating the downtown.
1979 – Commodity Exchange Tower, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Smith Carter
At 117 metres and 31 floors, this tower decimates the surrounding streetscapes, rendering them soulless at street level.
