This three-storey brick block on Stradbrook Avenue in Winnipeg, measuring 66 feet by 123 feet, was designed by local architect James William Hawker and built in 1931 by Walter Edwin Rooke for the Elm Park Syndicate at a cost of about $100,000. The building contained 30 apartments in its original configuration.
The firms participating in the building’s construction were the Winnipeg Paint and Glass Company, Vulcan Iron Works, Nummen-Shipman Electric Company, Dominion Stucco Company, W. Benson, Sigurdson Construction Company, City of Winnipeg Hydro Electric System, Dominion Bronze and Iron Limited, MacDonald Brothers Sheet Metal and Roofing Company, Tile Supply Company, Hudson’s Bay Company, Arctic Ice and Fuel Company, Schumacher-Mackenzie Limited, Bowyer-Boag Limited, Gypsum Lime and Alabastine Canada Limited, Leo Kaner and Company, R. Sigurdson, and Tyndall Quarry Company.
Wakefield Apartments (November 2020)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.87836, W97.14357
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: James William Hawker (1870-1941)
Memorable Manitobans: Walter Edwin Rooke (1882-1958)
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 1447/1931, City of Winnipeg Archives.
“Wakefield Apartments,” Manitoba Free Press, 31 August 1931, page 7.
Find a Postal Code, Canada Post.
Preparation of this page was supported, in part, by the Gail Parvin Hammerquist Fund of the City of Winnipeg.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer, Gordon Goldsborough, and George Penner.
Page revised: 14 June 2024
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