The 2½-storey Nurses’ Residence at the Brandon Hospital for Mental Diseases in Brandon, now a provincially-designated historic site, was built between 1920 to 1923 on a design by Winnipeg architects Lewis H. Jordan and Walter Percy Over. It marked a departure from the centre’s earlier structures, which were more imposing and institutional in appearance. The interior is finished with oak woodwork, mosaic tiles, wrought iron staircases, and ornamental plasterwork. Designed to accommodate 75 nurses, it also contained a kitchen, dining room, staff quarters, and a training centre for mental nursing.
The building is now part of the north campus for the Assiniboine Community College.
The former Nurses’ Residence (October 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Nurses’ Residence, now the Manitoba Institute of Culinary Arts at Assiniboine Community College (August 2023)
Source: Eva Janssen
The former Nurses’ Residence, now the Manitoba Institute of Culinary Arts at Assiniboine Community College (August 2023)
Source: Eva Janssen
The former Nurses’ Residence and commemorative plaque (August 2023)
Source: Eva Janssen
The former Nurses’ Residence (August 2023)
Source: Eva Janssen
Commemorative monument at N49.86803 W99.93668 near the Nurses’ Residence (October 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.86875, W99.93713
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Walter Percy Over (1874-1944)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Brandon Reformatory for Boys / Brandon Asylum for the Insane / Brandon Hospital for Mental Diseases / Brandon Mental Health Centre (First Street, Brandon)
Manitoba Organization: Brandon Vocational Training Centre / Manitoba Vocational Training Centre / Assiniboine Community College
Buildings at the Brandon Mental Health Centre by David Butterfield and Randy Rostecki, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch, November 1988.
History of the Brandon Mental Health Centre, 1891-1991 by Kurtland Refvik, BMHC Historical Museum, 1991.
We thank Eva Janssen for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 13 September 2023
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