Palmer House
| Address: | 372 Assiniboine Avenue |
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| Current Use: | Apartment building (rental) |
| Original Use: | Apartment building (rental) |
| Constructed: | 1955–56 |
| Contractors: |
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| Architects: | Unknown |
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More Information
When it was first built, this five-storey modernist apartment block at the corner of Assiniboine Avenue and Hargrave Street (overlooking the Assiniboine River) contained 65 apartment suites. Clad in orange-brick, the cubic structure is enlivened by its corner doorway and ribbon-style window treatment. The estimated cost of construction was $500,000.
Special construction was undertaken as the building was so close to the bank of the Assiniboine River. Construction was just a few years after the 1950 flood.
Design Characteristics
| Materials: | brick |
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| Neighbourhood: | Broadway-Assiniboine, Downtown |
- Orange brick
- Ribbon-style windows
- Built-in planter near doorway
- Modern-era signage
- Slender, geometric entry canopy