This two-storey wood frame and stucco house on Cordova Street in Winnipeg, measuring 26.3 feet by 33.3 feet, was designed and built in 1929 by contractor/owner Samuel Langtree Thompson at a cost of about $8,000. An adjacent one-storey wood frame garage, measuring 12 feet by 18 feet, was also designed and built by Thompson at a cost of about $200. He sold them to Willard Smith Whitney (c1885-1976), a purchasing agent at the construction firm of Carter-Halls-Aldinger.
Whitney House (July 2025)
Source: Jordan Makichuk
Garage associated with Whitney House (July 2025)
Source: Jordan MakichukSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.87456, W97.18920
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Samuel Langtree Thompson (1902-1974)
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 2841/1929, City of Winnipeg Archives.
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 6063/1929, City of Winnipeg Archives.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
Obituary [Willard Smith Whitney], Winnipeg Free Press, 21 July 1976, page 51.
This page was prepared by Jordan Makichuk.
Page revised: 10 August 2025
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