Millbrook Court (48 Lydia Street, Winnipeg)

This three-storey brick building on Lydia Street in Winnipeg was designed by local architects William Wallace Blair and George William Northwood, and built in 1906 by contractor J. C. Smith for owner N. Beauchemin. The configuration featured a store on the main floor and residential apartments on the upper floors. Initially named the Boyce Block, it was renamed Lydia Court in 1909 and Millbrook Court around 1930. Through the years, it contained as many as nine apartments.

Millbrook Court (December 2020)
Source: George Penner

Millbrook Court (May 2022)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.90079, W97.15539
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

City of Winnipeg Building Permit 1906/1542, City of Winnipeg Archives.

Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.

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

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

Page revised: 31 July 2023

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