Design Characteristics

Site: 99 ft. (30.18 m) frontage x 132 ft. (40.23 m)
Plan area: 8,190 sq. ft. (760.85 sq. m)
Gross floor area: 8,190 sq. ft. (760.85 sq. m)
Foundation and basement constructed with reinforced concrete piles; 5-inch concrete floor
Superstructure constructed of hollow tile and brick; steel trusses on brick piers; finish of sand-lime brick except for piers which were to be hard burnt clay brick; roof of 4-ply felt, pitch and gravel, brick parapet and coping, windows of wired plate glass in steel sash

Locations of Supporting Information

University of Manitoba Libraries, Department of Archives and Special Collections, Winnipeg Tribune Subject Clippings Research Files

Address:	308 Colony Street
Use:	Glass Repair Centre
Original Use:	Commercial
Constructed:	1944
Other Work:	1958, Construction of storage tanks 1987, Alterations to encroaching commercial building 1987, Interior renovations
Architects:	Edgar Prain
Firms:	Edgar Prain
Contractors:	A. Akman & Son