Welcome. (Si vous êtes francais, bienvenue et si vous plait cliquez l'icon <<FRANCAIS>> au droit.)  This website is dedicated to exploring Winnipeg's rich body of distinctive but too often ignored buildings and art.  Future topics will include the city's wealth of too often ignored mid-twentieth-century structures and the public art in and around them.  This includes the notable Safeways from this era, essentially the entirety of the Silver Heights neighbourhood, and various homes, schools, churches and government and office buildings.  However, as of yet the site consists of an examination of two earlier sets of buildings: Winnipeg's 1920s Safways and its fire halls from the first two decades of the 20th century. These buildings would be notable if executed only once; repeated again and again across the urban fabric they become all the more important and even iconic.

Pictured (clockwise from top left): Safeway at 247 Lilac Street (now Food Fare); former Fire Hall Number Seven (previously Fire Hall Number Eleven) at 180 Sinclair Street (currently the Wat Lao Xayaram Buddhist Centre of Manitoba); Safeway at 719 St Matthews Avenue at Beverley Street (now Pal's Supermarket); Fire Hall Number Three (previously Fire Hall Number Two) - 56 Maple Street (currently the Firefighters Museum of Manitoba)