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Built by
Winnipeg’s “Merchant Prince” in 1895, the J.H. Ashdown Warehouse, remains a major urban landmark in the Exchange District. When the first portion of the massive warehouse was built, Ashdown was at the mid-point of an illustrious career that had made him a fortune. He had a major influence on
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Starting out in a local tinsmith shop, Ashdown’s business grew along with the settlement. In 1870 he purchased two lots on the corner of Main Street and
Bannatyne Avenue, the location of the Ashdown retail store for over one hundred years. Ashdown’s successful real estate speculation, combined with
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Throughout the years
Ashdown’s Warehouse supplied every conceivable kind of merchandise, including its own “Diamond A Brand” goods. Ashdown also had small warehouses in Calgary, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Regina. James H. Ashdown died in 1924, but the firm remained a family business until it was sold
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Ashdown’s wholesale enterprise prospered with the settlement in the west and the rapid expansion of the wheat economy. The warehouse was given two additional storeys in 1902 and a three-bay, six storey addition was made to the western end of the building in 1906. In 1911, the final three bays were
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With his business prospering, Ashdown commissioned architect S. Frank Peters in 1894 to design a warehouse at the corner of
Bannatyne and Rorie Street. This location expanded the boundary of the warehouse district, which had been contained west of Main Street. The original warehouse was only three
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Ashdown lobbied and successfully obtained a court decision permitting the building of a rail spur line that ensured goods could be delivered as well as shipped directly from his warehouse in boxcars. The spur line attracted other wholesalers to move into the area.
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storeys high and five bays wide, built with brick and stone using little ornamentation in a
Romanesque style. The building opened in January, 1896 and at some point between 1896 and 1900, the fourth floor was added above the arches.
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Warehouse, now residences, 167 Bannatyne Avenue - architects: S.F. Peters, 1895; J.H.G. Russell, 1899, 1902, 1906, 1908, 1911
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