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A man named Frank Hartley Telfer built the house around 1903, and Telfer Street runs up to Portage Avenue from the house. "It was probably his driveway," says [Hoogstraten]. The book Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names says the street is named after D.H. Telfer, a Methodist minister in the 1920s, which suggests D.H. was the builder's son, but Hoogstraten is not sure.
"Every wall was painted white and it was in very poor shape," says Hoogstraten. "That's what made it affordable."On a tour of the house, Hoogstraten smiles the whole way, admiring the comfort of the home she fixed. "It's like a giant fort," she says, on the way up to the big third-floor room. She ducks to enter a short hallway built at the side under the sloping ceiling. Walking crouched, she exits onto a small, romantic front balcony overlooking Wolseley. "Isn't it fun, coming through a little closet to here?" she says.See the full content of this document
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Heavenly Home
Renovated old Wolseley Avenue house is a cosy retreat nestled next to the river
Sitelines/Ian TizzardNOT much is known about the attractive red brick house at 1280 Wolseley Ave., except that it is old and it is loved. Judit Hoogstra...See the full content of this document
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