Confederation Building (Winnipeg) facts for kids
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The Confederation Building is a building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, built by architect J. Wilson Gray. The ten-story office building stands forty-one meters tall (135 ft), and was built in 1913. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1976, for its Chicago school-influenced architecture.
The Confederation Building
This ten story steel-framed office block is representative of early high-rise building construction technology in Winnipeg. Designed in the Chicago style of architecture by J. Wilson Gray of Toronto, it was erected in 1912 by the Carter-Halls-Aldinger Company of Winnipeg at a cost of $400,000. The building was owned and occupied by the Confederation Life Association for over 50 years. Its style, use, and placement within Winnipeg's commercial core make it an enduring symbol of the city's great economic and spatial growth in the early twentieth century - Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
English text from the plaque on the front of the building.
