Royal Alexandra Hotel

The Royal Alexandra was part of a unified development that also housed a Winnipeg train station and an office wing.

That year, president Thomas Shaughnessy unveiled plans for a combined station and hotel that was similar in concept to Place Viger in Montreal.

[2] In October 1903, the Canadian Pacific Railway's board approved a new development in Winnipeg that would include a station, offices, and a hotel.

The complex was designed in the Beaux-Arts style and employed Wisconsin red brick and Manitoba Tyndall Stone.

The Maxwells designed an addition on the east side of the building that included 184 bedrooms, a ballroom, and a banquet hall.

In her memoir Raisins and Almonds, Fredelle Bruser Maynard wrote, "the boundary of the business district here was the Royal Alexandra Hotel, a poor relation of the Fort Garry to the south.

(The relationship between the two hotels was roughly that of Eaton's to the Bay, North End to South, immigrant to Old Settler.

Maxwell's unbuilt 1899 design