DCHP-3

Red River frame (building)

West, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1921 quote.

Quotations

1882
They are of the style known as Red River frame and are for use as storehouses [at Ft. Dunvegan].
1915
They built a house, which in those days of sod roofs and Red-River frames seemed quite palatial . . . In ten years they built another house, and it had everything, back-stairs, dumb-waiter, and laundry shoot. . . .
1921
The "big house" was a two-and-a-half storey building, with a large kitchen behind, built from the same plan as the officers' dwellings in Fort Garry, and known as a Red River frame building.
1963
There on the western limit of his seigniory, Cuthbert Grant built the great log house, in the Red River frame style, which was to be his home for the rest of his life.