393 Wellington Crescent – The Fortune Residence, a 2½-storey dwelling of wood-frame construction clad in stone, stucco and mock half-timbering, was built in 1910-11 and occupies a large riverbank lot in the Crescentwood area of south Winnipeg. Designed by W.W. Blair, the Tudor Revival styled mansion was built for the family of pioneer real estate developer Mark Fortune. The house was only a few months old when Fortune and his son died in the Titanic shipwreck of 1912. His wife and daughters were rowed to safety and continued to live in the great riverbank home until about 1920. The expansive, irregular, slightly L-shaped house has various projecting elements such as bay and oriel windows, a stone terrace, an east-side sun room, and pronounced exterior stone chimneys. The steep, complex roof line of truncated hip and side-gable sections has twin overlapping front (south) gables, hipped dormers on all sides, and a gabled rear bay coupled with a massive stone chimney. The sturdy stone foundation and wood-frame construction are elegantly clothed by rusticated limestone and roughcast with ornamental half-timbering. The many windows are mostly flat-headed squares or tall vertical rectangles of various widths arranged in singles or groups, but also include a rear eyebrow window. The offset main entrance includes a grand stone staircase integrated with a tower-like two-story bay window. The door is set within smooth-cut stone. Other details include bracketed eaves, barge boards, and window surrounds of smooth-cut stone and plain wood.514 Wellington Crescent – hipped roof with dormers, and tall chimneys; second floor balcony above entrance; pediment above second floor central door and window grouping; second floor balconies on both sides of the house550 Wellington Crescent – St. Mary’s Academy – since 1869 – corner stone A.D. 1902 – is an independent, Catholic school serving young women in grades seven through twelve.633 Wellington Crescent – Greek Revival style – two-story tall Doric pillars topped by a pediment638 Wellington Crescent – Queen Anne style, cornice return on gables, dormer in centerWellington Crescent – Italianate – 2½-storey frontispiece with pediment, dormers in attic61 Heaton Avenue – quoining, second floor balconette with composite pillars and balustrade, pediment with decorative cornice and year 1904123 Main Street – Winnipeg Union Station was built 1908-11 for the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canadian Northern Railways. Beaux Arts style with balanced plan and classical details of the grand central arch flanked by paired columns and topped by a large dome. Here a horse-drawn cart is seen passing in front of Union Station. Although largely abandoned as a primary means of transportation by the 1930s, some commercial businesses continued to use the horse and cart into the 1950s.
