This three-storey brick building on Garry Street in Winnipeg, measuring 38 feet by 110 feet, was designed and constructed in 1903 by contractors Arthur Chadwick Waller and Gabriel Howell at a cost of about $25,000. Known initially as the La Claire [Le Claire] Hall Apartments, it was described as a “magnificent new facility ... designed by the owner to satisfy the most finicky tastes of our clients.” Later converted to a hotel, it was renamed the Glengarry Hotel.
In 1928, a one-storey brick addition to the building's north side, mesauring 41 feet by 60 feet, was constructed by contractor Robert Orr at a cost of about $7,000. By late 1928, it was known as the Windsor Hotel.
Closed in March 2023 by a provincial health order, the building was destroyed by fire on 13 September 2023.
Windsor Hotel (1928)
Source: Hotel News, Volume 1, Number 12 (November 1928), page 17.
Windsor Hotel (September 2015)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Windsor Hotel (September 2018)
Source: George Penner
Remains of the Windsor Hotel (September 2023)
Source: Jordan MakichukSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.89108, W97.13906
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See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Arthur Chadwick Waller (1870-1943)
Memorable Manitobans: Robert Orr (1870-1946)
MHS Centennial Business: Windsor Hotel
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 952/1903, City of Winnipeg Archives.
Sheet 3, 1906 Winnipeg fire insurance maps, Library and Archives Canada.
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 2359/1928, City of Winnipeg Archives.
“Permits for buildings pass $6,000,000 mark,” Manitoba Free Press, 23 June 1928, page 20.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
“Vacant Windsor Hotel in downtown Winnipeg goes up in flames, will be demolished: fire department,” CBC News, 13 September 2023.
Preparation of this page was supported, in part, by the Gail Parvin Hammerquist Fund of the City of Winnipeg.
We thank George Penner for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Nathan Kramer, and Jordan Makichuk.
Page revised: 7 April 2024
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