Memorable Manitobans: Henry William Greene (c1885-?)

Architect.

Born at the Straits Settlements in southeast Asia around 1885, he came to Winnipeg before 1905 and worked as a draftsman for two local architectural firms, Jordan & Over and J. D. Atchison & Company, before obtaining his architect’s license in 1914. On 13 April 1905, he married Gladys Joy Kempton at Winnipeg and they had five children over the next 11 years, of whom two were born in Manitoba and three were born in the USA. Greene moved to Hollywood, California in August 1924 where he apparently continued to work as an architect.

Some of the buildings he designed in Manitoba:

• St. Jude’s Anglican Church (Wellington Avenue and Home Street, Winnipeg), 1914
• King George V School (261 Youville Street, Winnipeg), 1915
• Clandeboye School (St. Andrews), 1916
• Foxwarren Consolidated School No. 525 (Foxwarren), 1917
• Brunkild Consolidated School No. 1281 (Brunkild), 1919-20
• St. Michael and All Angels Anglican Church (300 Hugo Street North, Winnipeg), 1920
• Plum Coulee School (Plum Coulee)
• East Selkirk School

Sources:

Marriage registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

1916 Canada census, Ancestry.

“Tenders for building,” Manitoba Free Press, 10 July 1917, page 10.

St. Michael and All Angels Anglican Church (300 Hugo Street North), City of Winnipeg Historical Buildings Committee, September 1989.

This profile was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 6 May 2013

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