Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dominion Post Office Building (357 Main Street, Stonewall)

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Postmasters | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

This one-storey stone building on Main Street in Stonewall is Manitoba’s foremost example of Prairie Style architecture and only known surviving example of Prairie Style institutional architecture in Manitoba. It was designed by Francis Conroy Sullivan (1882-1929), one of Canada’s pioneer practitioners of this style. The Dominion Department of Public Works built the building during 1914-1915 using local limestone. It served as a post office until 1978.

Postmasters

Period	Postmaster
1878-1879	O. P. Jackson
1880-1882	James Drake
1882-1888	James B. Rutherford
1888-1896	Elizabeth H. Rutherford
1897-1905	Ira Stratton (1865-1943)
1905-1912	Barbara Stratton
1912-1929	Mrs. A. M. Campbell
1929-1942	Valentine de Lacy Costello
1942	Elena M. Costello
1944-1957	Valentine de Lacy Costello
1957	May Isabelle Tinney
1957-1973	William Thomas Hawkins
1973-1977	Ronald M. Jasper

Photos & Coordinates

Dominion Post Office Building at Stonewall (no date) Source: Stonewall Quarry Park The former Dominion Post Office Building at Stonewall (July 2010) Source: Gordon Goldsborough The former Dominion Post Office Building at Stonewall (April 2020) Source: George Penner The former Dominion Post Office Building at Stonewall (July 2023) Source: Glen Toews The former Dominion Post Office Building at Stonewall (July 2023) Source: Glen Toews Interior of the former Dominion Post Office Building at Stonewall (July 2023) Source: Christian Cassidy Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.13458, W97.32683 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Provincially Designated Historic Sites

Sources:

Stonewall Post Office Building, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.

Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.

We thank George Penner, Jordan Makichuk, Glen Toews, and Christian Cassidy for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 17 July 2023

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