This three-storey brick apartment block on River Avenue in Winnipeg, measuring 52 feet by 56 feet, was designed by local architect Norman McNab Moffat and constructed in 1906 by contractor A. B. Anderson for lumber dealer James Harkness Ludlow at a cost of about $22,000. The building contained nine apartments. The Ludlow Court was an early example of a luxury block, built in Winnipeg’s rapidly growing Fort Rouge area. The Ludlow family occupied one of the ground-floor suites until the 1970s. The building is a municipally-designated historic site.
Ludlow Court Apartments (May 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.88330, W97.13440
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Norman McNab Moffat (1873-1970)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 1906/562, City of Winnipeg Archives.
Apartment House Architecture in Winnipeg to 1915 by David Spector, December 1980.
Ludlow Court Apartments (141 River Avenue), City of Winnipeg Historical Buildings Committee, April 2005.
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.
Page revised: 14 April 2024
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