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<title>Lost Winnipeg</title>
<description>Locations of lost architectural treasures in the City of Winnipeg.</description>
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<title>Merchant's Bank (1900-1966)</title>
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        Built in 1900, the seven-storey Merchant's Bank was the city's, and indeed all of Western Canada's, tallest building. This title was held by the Merchant's Bank only until 1904, when the Union Bank tower was built three blocks up Main Street. 

The Merchant's Bank was demolished in 1967 to make way for the plaza of the Richardson Building.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51819">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-06 13:15:54.635835+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>McIntyre Block (1898-1979)</title>
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        Demolished in 1979 for reasons unclear. Has remained a gravel parking lot today this day.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51823">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-06 22:23:40.844177+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Portage and Main (1862-1979)</title>
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        Closed to pedestrian traffic in 1978 to improve vehicular traffic flow through the central business district. Would-be pedestrians are now directed into the underground concourse and shopping mall below.  <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51824">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-18 20:23:09.195993+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Toronto Dominion Bank Building (1950-1987)</title>
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        In its short life span, the TD Bank had a graceful yet strong presence on the Portage and Notre Dame intersection. While clean and Modern, the bank still conformed to traditional building principles. 

It was built in 1950, and demolished in the late 80's to make way for the plaza of the new TD hi-rise tower.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51826">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-06 13:13:16.768483+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Biggs Terrace</title>
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        Located at 139-161 James St., the Biggs Terrace is a fine example of the evisceration of the the South Point Douglas neighborhood, and the decline of nearby Main Street, beginning in the mid 20th century. The new zoning regulations that came into being in 1947 deemed terrace houses like this to be undesirable, and illegal to build, and hard to maintain or sell. This photo was taken one year later, in 1948. Some time in the 1960's, the Biggs gave way to a gravel parking lot.

In such close proximity to the Exchange District and the exclusive Waterfront Drive, the Biggs Terrace would have made for fashionable townhouses  today.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51869">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-04 16:31:54.037479+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Post Office</title>
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        Removed to help solve the parking problem that faced downtown Winnipeg in the 1960's <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51878">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-04 08:23:20.271025+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Grace Methodist Church (1893-1957)</title>
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        Built in 1893, Grace Methodist stood at the intersection of Notre Dame, Garry and Ellice until 1957, when it was demolished for a parking lot. Today, 49 years later, the parking lot remains.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51894">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-06 13:12:17.010338+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Childs Building (1910-1987)</title>
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        At 13 stories, the Childs Building (officially know as the McArthur Building) was the tallest building in the city from its construction in 1910 until the 1960's. 

The Childs was built to eagerly anticipate buildings of equal or greater height being built alongside of it. Unfortunately, by the time the taller buildings came, architecture was governed by Modernist dogma: Rather than a building being part of a whole which creates a block, a space, and a city, each building was an entity of itself which stand-alone and has no use for neighbors. 

And so, the Childs --like the rest of this corner of Portage and Main-- was demolished in the 1980's to make way for the TD tower. 

According to one report, the steel piles driven into the ground to support the Childs Building still sit there today; so strongly built into the earth that demolition crews gave up trying to get them out.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51898">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-06 13:14:01.837195+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Lawson's Terrace</title>
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        This Gothic-style terrace house was built sometime in the mid 1880's on the east side of Kennedy Street. This side of the street is now occupied by the remand centre, a government office tower and --of course-- surface parking.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51903">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-04 16:25:51.124611+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2006-04-03 21:33:53.633527+00:00</dc:date>
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        The Tribune Building was demolished in 1983, three years after the daily newspaper was shut down by its new owners. A parking lot used to store Canada Post fleet vehicles occupies the site today. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51821">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-03 22:01:58.689637+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Eaton's Department Store (1905-2002)</title>
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        In 1904, work began on a new department store on Portage Avenue between Donald and Hargrave Streets. This would be the first western expansion of the Timothy Eaton's department store empire. When it opened a year later, Eaton's store changed the course of downtown development; shifting retail away from Main Street, and to Portage Avenue. 

The T. Eaton company became an important institution in Winnipeg, and thier store on Portage was hugely popular with shoppers until well into the 1970's. However, the gradual de-urbanization of Winnipeg which began after World War II, caught up to the old department store, and traffic, sales, and active floor space declined. 

Meanwhile, the company as a whole began to run into financial difficulties and finally went out of business in 1999, and the lights at the department store that defined Portage Avenue finally went out for the last time.

The store sat vacant for three years, until it was demolished (despite valliant and credible efforts to save it) to make way for an arena, the MTS Centre. While the MTS Centre has proven to be successful in its own right, it has thus far failed to uplift the ever-declining Portage Avenue, which lost a defining physical presence in the Eaton's store.

In defence of the demoltion, the argument is often made that the store would still be standing vacant today were it not for the MTS Centre. On a formerly grand retail avenue so destroyed by megaprojects, its vacant windows would have fit right in.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51822">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-11 08:31:33.9768+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Old City Hall (1884-1964)</title>
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        Built in 1884, the Old City Hall was the most prominent building by the local Barber and Barber architecture firm, noted for their highly embellished Victorian creations. 

While it could be argued that the "Gingerbread House" City Hall tried to be too much, the flat, dull, Modern City Hall which replaced it in 1964, certainly tries to be too little: Of a style and scale more appropriate for a town hall of a place a fraction Winnipeg's size. Just as the old City Hall characterized the unabated optimism of the early city, the modern "Civic Centre" characterizes the apathetic pessimism of today's Winnipeg.

Perhaps the most best known and loved of Winnipeg's lost buildings, the Old City Hall is still talked of with fondness today.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/51888">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-06 13:18:40.105082+00:00</dc:date>
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