View of the main entrance of the Goodman-Wolstencroft Cottage, Gimli 2013
Photo: Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Tourism, Culture, Heritage, Sport and Consumer Protectiont, 2014
- Built
- 1914
- Recognized
- 2012
- By
- Local government
The register’s text, word for word
Description
Goodman-Wolstencroft Cottage (1914)
is a small, one-storey, frame building with a central doorway and a hipped roof, and wooden decks at the front and rear. It stands on a large cottage lot with several mature trees. The cottage is located on the east side of 2nd Avenue in Gimli, Manitoba. The municipal designation applies to the lot and the buildings on it.
Heritage value
Goodman-Wolstencroft Cottage is valued primarily as a well-preserved example of the type of summer cottage or cabin typically built in the Gimli area in the first half of the 20th century.
Goodman cottage is an early example, having been built in the first decade after the arrival of the railway in 1906 made the area a destination for Winnipeggers seeking a summer retreat. Unlike many such buildings, it has not been insulated for four-season use, and its frame structure remains visible on the interior.
Like most such buildings, its window openings were originally screened, and could be shut against the weather with wooden shutters; also typically, many of the openings were glazed decades ago. The cottage has a high degree of interior and exterior physical integrity, and retains its original doors, hardware, windows and shutters.
SourceR.M. of Gimli By-laws No. 11-0021, 23 February 2012.
Character‑defining elements
Key elements that define the exterior heritage character of the Goodman-Wolstencroft Cottage include:
-the overall small size and massing, raised slightly off the ground, with symmetrical front and rear facades and hipped, shingled roof
-the painted wood exterior: clapboard siding with cornerboards, skirting board and drip cap; exposed rafters
-the original 9-paned wood windows, paired or in threes; simple wood window frames and interior shutters
Key elements that define the interior heritage character of the Goodman
Cottage include:
-the rustic interior with unpainted fir woodwork with construction details visible;
the fir floor and interior partitions of tongue and groove fir
-the general division of the interior space into a main hearth room with small bedrooms and kitchen on the south side and the north-west corner
-the interior partitions extending to the height of the exterior walls; the open rafter space
-the original fittings including the doors and hardware
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Goodman-Wolstencroft
Cottage site include:
-the generally open character of the lot, with several mature trees
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Location
13-2nd Avenue, Gimli, Manitoba, R0C, Canada
50.63530° N, 96.98710° W
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From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, as last updated on December 12, 2025. The register’s text is shown word for word.