Historic Sites of Manitoba: Tache Apartments / Bryce Apartments / Osborne Village Apartments (117 Bryce Street, Winnipeg)

This three-storey block on Bryce Street in Winnipeg was designed and built in 1913 by James Alexander Matthews at a cost of about $60,000. The 98 feet by 64 feet building contained 21 apartments in its original configuration. Known originally as the Tache Apartments, it was later renamed Bryce Apartments. It was the Osborne Village Apartments, containing 22 apartments, at the time of a 2020 site visit.

Osborne Village Apartments

Osborne Village Apartments (December 2020)
Source: George Penner

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.87919, W97.14264
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: James Alexander Matthews (1886-1954)

Sources:

City of Winnipeg Building Permit 379/1913, City of Winnipeg Archives.

Apartment House Architecture in Winnipeg to 1915 by David Spector, December 1980.

Find a Postal Code, Canada Post.

Preparation of this page was supported, in part, by the Gail Parvin Hammerquist Fund of the City of Winnipeg.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer, George Penner, and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 24 March 2022

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