Victorian Buildings

Most Victorian buildings in Winnipeg were later replaced by larger structures that would serve its expanding businesses. The Victorian grouping on Princess remains however, as one of the best examples of such buildings in Winnipeg while others can be on Main Street North of the district. Many Victorian buildings are Italianate in style and constructed of heavy wood post and beam (some include fireproof iron columns) with heavy detailed masonry load- bearing walls, variously arched windows and metal or corbelled brick cornices. The prominent architects of the day, Charles A. and Earle W. Barber, designed more than eighty such structures before 1898. There are only four of Barber and Barber's buildings still standing today, three of which are in the District.