Exchange District in Winnipeg, Manitoba — Canada’s Prairie Region (North America)
Whitla Building
1899
— Historic Winnipeg —
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 16, 2022
1. Whitla Building Marker
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Industry & Commerce • Notable Buildings. A significant historical year for this entry is 1899.
Location. 49° 53.833′ N, 97° 8.475′ W. Marker is in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is in the Exchange District. Marker is at the intersection of Arthur Street and McDermot Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Arthur Street. Marker is mounted at eye-level on the northeast corner of the subject building, facing Arthur Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 70 Arthur Street, Winnipeg MB R3B 1G7, Canada. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Gault Building (about 90 meters away, measured in a direct line); Traveller's Block (about 120 meters away); Early Skyscrapers in Winnipeg / Les gratte-ciel de Winnipeg (about 150 meters away); Robert Atkinson Davis (about 150 meters away); Court House (about 180 meters away); Bank of Hamilton (about 180 meters away); Imperial Bank of Canada
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Regarding Whitla Building. Canadian Register of Historic Places (2008/02/26); and Winnipeg Landmark Heritage Structure.
From Canadian Register Statement of Significance:
Key exterior elements that define the structure's exemplary Richardsonian Romanesque style and warehouse function include:
• the vast, elongated and well defined rectangular proportions, five bays wide on McDermot (north), 10 bays on Arthur and King, and extending upward seven storeys from a raised and rusticated limestone foundation to a flat roofline;
• the heavy mill construction, supplemented by cast-iron columns in the 1899 section and enveloped by facades of roughly dressed limestone and common buff brick;
• the impressive symmetry and verticality of the five-storey 1899 structure, replicated in the 1904 and 1911 additions, including on the north and east elevations arched and recessed bays filled with rhythmically aligned pairs of windows, square-headed on the main to fourth floors, round-arched on the fifth and decreasing in height on the upper levels.
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Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 16, 2022
2. Whitla Building (southwest elevation)
The monumental R.J. Whitla and Company Building, one of the largest historic warehouses in downtown Winnipeg and an exemplar of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, celebrates a period when the city's wholesale trade expanded rapidly to serve growing western markets. Twice enlarged, the warehouse presents three broad, unified facades to its key corner location and, with the adjoining Robinson, Little and Company Building to the south, forms a major complex in what is now the Exchange District National Historic Site of Canada.(Submitted on February 3, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 16, 2022
3. Whitla Building (northwest elevation)
Credits. This page was last revised on January 30, 2024. It was originally submitted on February 2, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 58 times since then and 6 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on February 3, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
