Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lilly House (401 Third Street SW, Dauphin)

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This two-storey brick house on Third Street SW in Dauphin was built about 1910 for department store merchant Robert Lilly.

Occupants/Owners

Period

Occupant/Owner

1910-1914

Robert Lilly (1872-1914)

1914-1915

Gertrude Lilly (1877-?)

1915-1928

Frank Elgin Simpson (1879-1947)

1928-1935

Eli Bay (1877-1935)

1935-?

Merritt Albert Spillett (1881-1939)

?-1937

Vacant

1937-1945

Lodge and Sons Funeral Home

1945-1952

Sneath Funeral Home

1953-1993

Dauphin Hospital Nurses’ Residence

Photos & Coordinates

Lilly House

Lilly House (February 2020)
Source: George Penner

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.14925, W100.05970
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

Death registrations [Robert Lilly, Eli Bay, Hemitt Albert Spillett], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

“Robert Lilly found dead,” Dauphin Herald, 30 April 1914, page 1.

“Local and general,” Dauphin Herald, 22 July 1915, page 1.

Canada Voters Lists, 1935-1980, Ancestry.

Obituary [Merritt Albert Spillett], Dauphin Herald, 9 February 1939, page 1.

“Completion of Nurses’ Home soon will fill long-felt need,” Dauphin Herald, 12 February 1953, page 1.

“Nurses’ Residence,” Dauphin Herald, 19 March 1953, page 2.

“Official opening - Nurses’ Residence,” Dauphin Herald, 26 March 1953, page 5.

“Nursing residence is up for sale,” Dauphin Herald, 29 June 1993, page 5.

This page was prepared by Al Gray, Gordon Goldsborough, and George Penner.

Page revised: 16 January 2023

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