The Women’s Tribute Memorial Lodge, built in 1931, is one of Winnipeg’s best examples of Art Deco architecture. Built for an estimated $32,000, the Memorial Lodge was designed to serve as a gathering space for soldiers returning home from World War One.

Behind the project was one Harriet Walker, a former New York actress turned theatre columnist and suffragette in Winnipeg. Walker rallied the city, raising $9,000 and forming the Women’s Tribute Association in 1924. With the help of the Canadian Legion and a land grant from the Municipality of St. James, Northwood & Chivers were hired to design a new meeting space. Both men were Winnipeg war veterans themselves, and took the new design seriously.

The façade, clad in buff brick and Manitoba Tyndall stone, is covered in low-relief classical detailing. Brick pilaster columns rise up across the first floor to support limestone pediments bearing the building’s name and the Manitoba crest. The same symbol sits above the grand rectangular entranceway.

More recently, in 2006, the building was renovated and became home to the Movement Disorders Clinic.