Special Places Project

Site Inventory / Page 2 / Recreational & Engineering Structures

Lodge Hall

Construction Date: 1922

Location: 112 Fourth St.

Original Owner / Builder:  Independent Order of Oddfellows

Building History:

- hair stylist / barber shop
- Retail / Paper printed here
- apartment above
- once a movie house
- laundomat where stage was
- upper floor used for high school after old building condemned

Building Features of Interest:

- part of original 1900 building incorporated in re-built structure after 1922 fire
 - old register / floor
 - chain link symbol on facade

Former Band House

Construction Date: 1938

Location: 132 Fifth Street

Original Owner / Builder:  Wawanesa Community Band

Features of Interest:

- wood siding
- Band formed in 1901  - long established community org.
- music and instruments transferred to School Band Program in 1983
- used as a classroom when school evacuated in 2011

Cliff Street Park

Features of Interest:

- overlooks the Souris River Valley

Fair Grounds

Construction Date:  1892

Location: Commercial Street

Original Owner / Builder: 

Racetrack established in 1892 - still used today

Features of Interest:

Wawanesa was a centre for horse racing.
Site generally known as the "Turf Club"

South Bridge

'Construction Date: 1908

Location: Seventh Street

Original Owner / Builder: 

Features of Interest:

Survived the 1976 flood, damaged slightly in the 2011 flood.

C.N.R. Rail Bridge

Construction Date: 1924 - after the originall structure collapsed causing 1 death

Location:

Original Owner / Builder:  C.N.R.

Features of Interest:

- original (1889) also had a span for horse and carriage traffic
- second bridge built in 1903



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