Description of Historic Place

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.

Source: R.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