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Bulman Bros. new building (1906)

Winnipeg Free Press, March 14, 1906, p. 2. -- At this point it gets kind of strange since the new Bulman Bros. seems to be on the site of the old one. At least it is on the same intersection, and it's hard to see which other corner it could have been on. This is odd because there is no building there now and the story that is always told is that no buliding ever sat on that site after the 1904 fire that destroyed the 7-storey Bulman Bros. block.
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wintorbos said:

I thought about that but the shape of the building certainly fits on the empty lot ... I need to investigate further! I should be able to find a street address that might give a more accurate idea. That building certainly doesn't exist now, that's for sure.
12 years ago

wintorbos said:

Good idea but I don't really think they would have done that. They were printers and engravers so it was easy for them to produce new images of buildings for advertisements, such as we have here.
12 years ago

wintorbos said:

A second fire is possible ... it happened to more than one building downtown. I don't know why, if you owned a lot at a certain street corner, you would sell it and then immediately buy another lot on the same street corner to rebuild your building on. The simpler explanation is that they failed to sell the lot and decided to build their new building there -- simpler except I've always heard that nothing was ever built there after the 1904 fire. It is just a parking lot now and looks like it's been that way for a long, long time. I'll have to dig around!
12 years ago
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