Brandon's City Hall and Opera House opened on New Year's Day 1892 with the Annual Fireman's Ball. The exterior of the building was designed by Brandon architect W.R. Marshall. At the south end was the Opera House, an auditorium formed by an internally exposed framework of delicate iron pillars and trusses. Demonlished in 1971, the limestone rubble of the foundations were turned into a sunken garden located in Princess Park.
Custodial History
See fonds level description of the Alf Fowler collection for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Photo was taken from the northwest corner of 9th Street and Princess Avenue and shows the west side of City Hall.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Assiniboine Historical Society's Brandon: An Architectural Walking Tour pamphlet (1982).
Location Copy
A 5" x 7" (b/w) reproduction of the photograph is located with the original.
Storage Range
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript collection - photograph storage drawer
Photograph was taken on the staircase in Clark Hall looking down to the main floor. The door to the President's Office and the entrance door (boarded over) are visible along with the bannnister for the staircase.
Photograph of a proposed model for the Brandon College and Clark Hall renovations. Model shows the courtyard, the link, the skywalk and the new rear entrance.
Photograph of a proposed model for the Brandon College and Clark Hall renovations. Model shows the link, the skywalk, the A.E. McKenzie Building and part of the George T. Richardson Centre.
Photograph of a proposed model for the Brandon College and Clark Hall renovations. Photograph is looking down on the model, which shows the link, the skywalk, west side of Clark Hall and the Original Building and the courtyard.
Photograph is looking north along the hallway in the basement of Clark Hall prior to renovations. The west side of the hallway was the original location of the Native Studies Department. The Development Office is at the end of the hall. The Print Shop was located on the east side of the basement hallway.
The photograph has bubbled but it hasn't damanged the image.
Scope and Content
Photograph is mostly likely of members of the Clark Hall Literary Society pre-World War I.
Back Row (L to R): ? and Lillian Wilhelmina Speers '13.
Middle Row (L to R): Leslie Alberta Ward '13, ?, and M. H. Strang '13
Front Row (L to R): Evelyn J. Simpson ' 13 and M. McCamis ' 13
View is west north west from 18th Street. Photograph shows the Brandon College Building, Clark Hall, and the Brandon University sign on the front lawn.
View is west southwest from the front lawn. Photograph shows the Brandon College Building and Clark Hall, as well as cars parked on the driveway. There is a centennial symbol (the symbol is meant to look like a geometric maple leaf) on the roof of the building.
View is west from approximately 18th Street. Photograph was taken during the McDiarmid (1900-1912) era and shows the Brandon College Building and Clark Hall. Students are visible on the lawn and steps.