This two-storey brick and stone building at the corner of Home Street and Wellington Avenue in Winnipeg was designed by local architect William Barnes Lait. The first floor, measuring 40 feet by 100 feet, was built in 1910 by the firm of Pattinson and Eilbeck at a cost of about $19,000. It was occupied by the laundry business of Luther Judge Rumford and William Stanley Brock. Two years later, a second storey designed by Lait and built by Pattinson and Eilbeck was added at a cost of about $5,100.
The laundry business, known originally as the Rumford Sanitary Laundry Limited, was later named Rumford's Limited. By the 1950s, it focussed on commercial laundry as the Sunshine Uniform Supply Limited and Acme Linen Supply. Purchased in 1980 by a consortium that owned the Perth’s Laundry Company, it was sold in 2012 to a Calgary-based corporate group.
Rumford Laundry Building (1912)
Source: Winnipeg Tribune, 9 November 1912, page 26.
Perth’s Laundry Building (June 2019)
Source: George Penner
Perth’s Laundry Building (May 2022)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Perth’s Laundry Building (December 2022)
Source: Jordan MakichukSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.90032, W97.16682
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: William Barnes Lait (1855-1928)
Manitoba Business: Pattinson and Eilbeck
Memorable Manitobans: Luther Judge Rumford (1875-1929)
Memorable Manitobans: William Stanley Brock (1879-1953)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Perth’s Dry Cleaners Building (1560 Main Street, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Perths Dry Cleaners Building (678 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg)
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 1796/1910, City of Winnipeg Archives.
“Saturday’s permits high,” Manitoba Free Press, 4 July 1910, page 2.
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 614/1912, City of Winnipeg Archives.
“Building permits,” Manitoba Free Press, 4 April 1912, page 12.
“Rumford Sanitary Laundry,” Winnipeg Tribune, 9 November 1912, page 26.
“765 Wellington Avenue - Rumford Ltd. / Perth's Cleaners” by Christian Cassidy, Winnipeg Places.
This page was prepared by Jordan Makichuk, George Penner, and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 3 August 2025
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