Historic Sites of Manitoba: Scott House (200 Colony Street, Winnipeg)

This two-storey wood frame house on Colony Street in Winnipeg was designed by architect Alexander D. Melville and built in 1904 for clerk John C. Scott. He lived here until the 1910s. The next occupant was Richard J. Marr of Marr’s Star Home Bakery who constructed a bakery addition to the house to supply his store on Portage Avenue.

Scott House (June 2018)
Source: George Penner

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.88676, W97.15160
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

John C. Scott House, 200 Colony Street by Murray Peterson, Peterson Projects, February 2008.

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

This page was prepared by George Penner and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 5 August 2020

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