This 1½-storey brick and stucco house on Garfield Street South, in the Wolseley neighbourhood of Winnipeg, measuring 34 feet by 40 feet, was designed by local architect Max Zev Blankstein and built in 1927 by Western Home Builders Limited for furrier Morris Kim at a cost of about $10,000.
Kim House (July 2023)
Source: Jordan MakichukSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.88342, W97.17755
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Max Zev Blankstein (1874-1931)
Memorable Manitobans: Morris Kim (1890-1949)
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 2500/1927, City of Winnipeg Archives.
“Nine permits issued,” Winnipeg Tribune, 15 July 1927, page 6.
“Permits for six new dwellings,” Manitoba Free Press, 16 July 1927, page 17.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
Winnipeg fire insurance map, #614 September 1958, City of Winnipeg Archives.
Max Blankstein: Architect by Murray Peterson, Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, 2022.
This page was prepared by Jordan Makichuk and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 October 2024
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