Manitoba Municipal Heritage Site No. 283
Ridgeway House and Gunton Waiting Station Designation Date: August 9, 2006 The Ridgeway House and Gunton Waiting Station exemplify the types of utilitarian buildings erected during early phases of development in Manitoba’s Interlake region, and now preserved at a museum site. The house, completed in 1886, planned by an unidentified Swiss builder and associated for more than a century after 1898 with the family of Rockwood-area pioneer John Ridgeway, displays unique design and construction features, making it an interesting local landmark. The waiting station, built in ca. 1944, a compact but comfortable building typical of the functional facilities placed at stops not busy enough for full-fledged stations, recalls the era when rural Manitobans relied on scheduled railway passenger service for transport. It sheltered Gunton-area customers of the Canadian Pacific Railway until the early 1960s. |