Confederation Building (Winnipeg)

The Confederation Building is a building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, built by architect J. Wilson Gray. The ten-story office building stands forty-one meters tall (135 ft), and was built in 1913. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1976, for its Chicago school-influenced architecture.The Confederation Building

This ten story steel-framed office block is representative of early high-rise building construction technology in Winnipeg. Designed in the Chicago style of architecture by J. Wilson Gray of Toronto, it was erected in 1912 by the Carter-Halls-Aldinger Company of Winnipeg at a cost of $400,000. The building was owned and occupied by the Confederation Life Association for over 50 years. Its style, use, and placement within Winnipeg's commercial core make it an enduring symbol of the city's great economic and spatial growth in the early twentieth century - Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada

English text from the plaque on the front of the building.

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 Confederation Building

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Category:Buildings and structures in Winnipeg
Category:National Historic Sites in Manitoba
Category:Office buildings completed in 1913
Category:Chicago school architecture in Canada
Category:1913 establishments in Manitoba