This small, one-storey wood frame house on Fort Street in Winnipeg was built between 1902 and 1903. Its first occupant was William Squires and his family. The Squires’ moved out in 1904 and, over the next seven decades into the 1970s, it remained a single-family residence. In the 1980s, the house was the centre of the city’s punk music community. In the late 1980s and through the 1990s, it provided office space for an archaeological consulting company although, as of 2023, the building remains classified as a residential structure.
Formerly a municipally-designated historic building, it was de-designated in 2010.
Squires House (September 2019)
Source: George Penner
Squires House (September 2023)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.88945, W97.13715
denoted by symbol on the map above
Lonely House - 130 Fort Street by Christian Cassidy, Winnipeg Places, 10 December 2016.
This page was prepared by George Penner and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 February 2024
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