Historic Sites of Manitoba: Bank of Montreal Building (335 Main Street, Winnipeg)

This iconic building at the intersection of Portage Avenue and Main Street in Winnipeg was designed by the American architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White, and built between 1911 and 1911 (supervised by local architect John Nelson Semmens) at a cost of about $1,295,000. A monument in front of the building commemorates bank employees killed during the First World War. The building is a municipally-designated historic site.

Bank of Montreal Building (December 2013)
Source: George Penner

Bank of Montreal Building (September 2015)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Aerial view of the Bank of Montreal Building (September 2023)
Source: George Penner

Interior of the Bank of Montreal Building (April 2017)
Source: George Penner

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.89532, W97.13797
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

335 Main Street, The Bank of Montreal, Winnipeg Historical Buildings Committee, December 1980.

We thank George Penner for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 18 September 2023

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