Wilson House
(Klinic Community Health Centre)
545 Broadway

This grand, 2 1/2-storey Queen Anne structure is one of a series of buildings that appeared in a prominent residential district along Broadway, west of the Legislative Building, Fort Osborne Barracks and All Saints Anglican Church, during Winnipeg's pre-World War I development boom. The house was built in 1904 on the north side of Broadway between Colony and Good streets for Robert R. Wilson of Campbell Brothers and Wilson Company, wholesale grocers.
Wilson's house was designed by John H. G. Russell and rests on a rusticated stone foundation which gives way to stretcher-style buff brick veneer. Consistent with the Queen Anne style, the design is asymmetrical with a hipped roof, gables, a bay and a porch.

A succession of occupants followed in the Broadway house. They maintained the basic integrity of the structure's exterior but greatly modified the interior. These changes reflected the increasing commercialization of the West Broadway area. In 1948, the house was converted to office space, housing at various times provincial government agencies and commercial design firms. Klinic, a non-profit community health centre, occupied the premises from 1977 through the 1980's, then moved to Portage Avenue.