This three-storey brick and stone building on Sherbrook Street in Winnipeg was designed by local architects Samuel Hooper and Charles Henry Walker, and built in 1906 by contractors Thomas Cooper Hindson and nephew William James Davidson (1879-1969) for undertaker Arinbjorn Sigurgeirsson Bardal. The building measured 100 feet wide and 60 feet deep with commercial space on the street level and residential apartments on the upper two levels.
Bardal Block (November 2020)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.90363, W97.15591
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Samuel Hooper (1851-1911)
Memorable Manitobans: Charles Henry Walker (1855-1927)
Memorable Manitobans: Thomas Cooper Hindson (1852-1934)
Memorable Manitobans: Arinbjorn Sigurgeirsson Bardal (1866-1951)
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 1906/966, City of Winnipeg Archives.
Preparation of this page was supported, in part, by the Gail Parvin Hammerquist Fund of the City of Winnipeg.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Nathan Kramer, and George Penner.
Page revised: 23 November 2021
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