View is northwest from the corner of 18th Street and Louise Avenue. Photograph shows the Brandon College campus, the Steam Plant and Kinsmen Stadium. Flora Cowan Hall is under construction.
Located south of Stanley Park along the 1400 block of Lorne Avenue, Park School was constructed in 1904. Designed by W.A. Elliot and built by the Brandon Construction Company the structure measured 71 x 107 feet and cost approximately $38,000.
The school featured a principal’s office, reception room, staff rooms, an assembly hall for eight hundred, and ten class rooms. The interior walls were lined with mahogany while the floors were made of western pine. The interior of the basement was constructed from Tyndall stone, while Crookston brick trimmed with Bedford stone made up the exterior.
The building was razed in September 1978. Hobbes Manor was built on the location.
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Item is a postcard showing Park School in Brandon, MB.
View is east northeast from approximately 22nd Street between Lorne and Louise Avenues. Photograph shows: Brandon College (before planting of trees in quadrangle and before the Education Building), McKenzie Seeds, Prince Edward Hotel, Central United (St. Paul's) Church, St. Augustine's Church.
