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I have decided to take some photographs of one of the most impressive buildings in my home town, the Manitoba Legislative Building. Its a rather lovely neoclassical building built back in the day in which Winnipeg was the major rail hub for all commerce going west across canada and had money to spend on nice things.

First some external shots of the building's itself (for non natives, the building most well known feature is the statue on top of the dome, named the golden boy)



Queen Victoria Statue



Inside the building itself is the the Grand Stairway. The Mural in the background honors those brave soldiers who died in the great war




Same room from on top of the staircase.



One of two Bronze Bronze statues of the Bison (the Provincial Animal)



Snakehead Lamp (in the same room)



Zor

Dude, that architecture kicks ass. God I would love something that grand here in Arizona.. We have a few nice Art Deco buidings, but nothing on that scale, and nothing in that wonderful Neo Classical Greco-Roman style.

Crossroads Inc. wrote:Dude, that architecture kicks ass. God I would love something that grand here in Arizona.. We have a few nice Art Deco buidings, but nothing on that scale, and nothing in that wonderful Neo Classical Greco-Roman style.

Winnipeg actually has a fair bit of Neoclassical and Art Deco stuff downtown as well as some of the oldest skyscrapers (Similar to the early ones in Chicago). Between 1900 and 1929 it was quite wealthy and there was alot of construction going on by buisinesses that wanted to show off. Most of it was done by catalouge and there are a bunch of old brick buildings which have one side done with respectable neoclassical detailing with the other being bare brick Cornice, but it's still fairly impressive in areas. The place were i had my first job (the Manitoba Archives) is actually a very nice Art Deco building that i am going to have to show you.

The Ledgeslative Building is still in my opinion the best thing downtown. The way i see it this is how a Government's administrative center should look.

Zor

Sorry, what do you mean by this sentence?

Winnipeg actually has a fair bit of Neoclassical and Art Deco stuff downtown as well as some of the oldest skyscrapers in Chicago.

I'm assuming y'all didn't move any skyscrapers from Chicago up to Winnipeg

Via buffalo-drawn wagon, mostly.



But yeah, what does that mean?

I should represent Alberta up in this bitch soon. Nietzsche posted pictures of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly, and Zor's done Manitoba. We should get full coverage of the Prairies up in here.

Phantasee wrote:Sorry, what do you mean by this sentence?

Winnipeg actually has a fair bit of Neoclassical and Art Deco stuff downtown as well as some of the oldest skyscrapers in Chicago.

I'm assuming y'all didn't move any skyscrapers from Chicago up to Winnipeg

I apologize for the error, it has been rectified. What i ment is that they were a couple of early 20thc century skyscrapers in a similar vein to stuff that had their beginings in chicago.

Zor

Phantasee wrote:I should represent Alberta up in this bitch soon. Nietzsche posted pictures of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly, and Zor's done Manitoba. We should get full coverage of the Prairies up in here.

It's all you man. I must say though, we do have nice parliament buildings in the Prairies.

I've got a question. Do all Legislative Assemblies in the country have the same Queen Victoria statue? Because that one looks almost the same as the one in Toronto.

Alberta and Saskatchewan weren't provinces while Queen Victoria was still around. IIRC it was one of the Edwards, VII or VIII. Here in Alberta we have a creepy portrait of King George V staring at you. All the time. From every angle.

I'm pretty sure I've been to the Manitoba Legislative Building. I know for a fact that I was at the Mint, because I have one of those commemorative coins (somewhere). Man, that's awhile back now.

Phantasee wrote:Alberta and Saskatchewan weren't provinces while Queen Victoria was still around. IIRC it was one of the Edwards, VII or VIII. Here in Alberta we have a creepy portrait of King George V staring at you. All the time. From every angle.

Well I was just wondering because the statue in that pic is almost the spitting image of the same Victoria statue in Toronto.