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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.
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.
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