Buildings
Hugh John Macdonald School
| Address: | 567 Bannatyne Avenue |
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| Use: | Educational |
| Original Use: | Educational |
| Constructed: | 1929 |
| Other Work: | Additions (1956, 1964) |
| Architects: | Winnipeg School Division, In-house |
| Contractors: | Fraser Construction Co. (1956) Kraft Construction Ltd. (1964) |
More Information
Named to honour Sir Hugh John Macdonald, a popular local politician and police magistrate, this school opened in 1929.
Design Characteristics
| Suburb: | Centennial |
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- The old school is a straight-forward and attractive design in two-storey school of brown variegated brick with modest amounts of stone detailing; the first addition repeated this design fairly faithfully in 1956 with six classrooms added on the south end (minus the stone decoration)
- No homage was paid when an auditorium/gym block was attached on the north end in 1964, in fact a red brick was used and some of the windows in the original school were covered over and painted red to tie in the latest addition