File consists of a description of the fund, correspondence, pledge information, reports, a blank application, and financial information including a financial statement.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series XV: BUFA
Box 9
Photograph was taken from inside the building looking out onto the courtyard. It shows scaffolding around the hole in the wall that would become the rear entrance to the Brandon College Building and Clark Hall.
Photograph is looking west and shows the entrance to Flora Cowan Hall and the west side of the building. Also visible are portions of 20th Street and Louise Avenue before the construction of the Gymnasium or the Site Services Building.
Photograph is looking west northwest and shows the entrance to Flora Cowan Hall as well as a couple of houses on 20th Street where the present day Site Services Building stands.
Building was built as the Reno Hotel in 1910, the city's best; was soon overshadowed by Canadian Northern Railway's Prince Edward Hotel in 1912; Became Belvidere Apts. 1918
This is the only building, apart from houses, completely faced with "Samson's" brick from Brandon Sand & Brick Co. (plant at 30th St. & Princess Ave - presently playground of Valleyview School) to survive into the 1980's. Ornamentation around door and windows is the only surviving example of their red dyed brick, known.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Front entrance of Belvidere Apartments (ex. Reno Hotel), 1280 Rosser Ave.
Notes
[Mr. Stuckey put two negatives (DC5 and DC5a) in same envelope, which we have separated, along with a print we numbered DC5(b).]