Buildings
Inkster School
| Address: | 633 Inkster Boulevard |
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| Use: | Educational |
| Original Use: | Educational |
| Constructed: | 1947 |
| Other Work: | Additions in 1952-1953, and 2000 |
| Architects: | Winnipeg School Division, In-house |
| Contractors: | Malcom Construction (1947, 1952-1953) |
More Information
The name of this elementary school honours the Inkster family of Scottish pioneers who settled in the Kildonan district and served the new community for generations.
Design Characteristics
| Suburb: | Inkster-Faraday |
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- This school follows a plan used several times by the division throughout the former Winnipeg #1 in the early post-war years; it is typical in its dominant centre tower block, its use of a long single-storey mainly rectangular plan, red brick with a stylized auditorium design with surviving glass block windows and distinctive stone trim on the pilasters
- In this school, additions have created at least two more sections with reasonable sensitivity while leaving the facade recognizable in its historic fabric; the plan is now U-shaped back from the street
- Of particular note is the use of green-trimmed sash windows in the old portions and the way the facade steps back slightly towards the sides