The Confederation Building is a 10-storey office building along the Exchange District of

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba. It is centred on the confluence of the Red River of the North, Red and Assiniboine River, Assiniboine rivers. , Winnipeg h ...

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, built by architect J. Wilson Gray. Built in 1913, the building was originally owned and occupied by the Confederation Life Association. It stands tall and was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1976 for its Chicago school-influenced architecture. The plaque on the front of the building reads:

The Confederation Building This ten storey steel-framed office block is representative of early high-rise building construction technology in Winnipeg. Designed in the Chicago style of architecture by J. Wilson Gray of Toronto, it was erected in 1912 by the Carter-Halls-Aldinger Company of Winnipeg at a cost of $400,000.… Its style, use, and placement within Winnipeg's commercial core make it an enduring symbol of the city's great economic and spatial growth in the early twentieth century - Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada

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Emporis Emporis was a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. The company collected data and photographs of buildings worldwide, which were published in an online database from 2000 to September 2022. Emporis was acquired ...

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Buildings and structures in downtown Winnipeg National Historic Sites in Manitoba Municipal Historical Resources of Winnipeg Office buildings completed in 1913 Chicago school architecture in Canada 1913 establishments in Manitoba {{Manitoba-struct-stub