BROWNE, George Creeford (1852-1919) was a successful architect in Winnipeg, Manitoba from 1882 until 1904. Born in Montreal on 3 May 1852, he was the youngest son of the eminent Montreal architect George W.R. Browne and was educated there at the Montreal High School before entering his father's office to work as an apprentice. Unlike his brother John James Browne, who chose to remain in Montreal in the employ of his father, George C. Browne moved to New York City in 1870 and joined the office of Russell Sturgis (1836-1909), who at this time was completing designs for Farnham Hall, his High Victorian Gothic masterpiece at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. In 1873 Browne departed for Europe and studied the different styles of architecture in England, Ireland, France, Italy and Switzerland. He enrolled briefly at the South Kensington School of Art in London, and was said to have been awarded prizes at the International Competition for the class of design. In June 1877 he returned to Montreal to practice there for two years, and in 1879 moved to the Tiger Hills district near Holland, Manitoba to farm a 320 acre homestead. His career as pioneer farmer may not have offered the rewards he had expected and in December 1881 he moved to Winnipeg to resume his architectural career. He married Louisa A. Nicolls in 1883, and in 1907 he petitioned the Manitoba government to change his name to George Creeford Browne (Manitoba, Statutes of Manitoba, 1907, Chapter 51, 11).
Browne was a prolific designer who had a substantial impact on the architectural face of Winnipeg and on several towns in Manitoba. He competently handled commissions for institutional, civic, ecclesiastical and residential buildings, and produced schemes for retail stores, banks, factories and schools. Unlike the ornate and occasionally flamboyant quality of work produced by his Winnipeg rival Charles A. Barber, or the robust and forceful designs executed in stone by Charles H. Wheeler, Browne most often employed brick in his symmetrical compositions; his works such as the Massey Harris Warehouse, 1885, or Strevel Terrace, 1889-90, and the YMCA Building of 1898-1900 can be recognized by their absence of applied decoration and by the projecting horizontal band courses of brick that surround his buildings. His most distinctive and accomplished design is that of Wesley College, 1894, executed in collaboration with S. Frank Peters, a commission which he boasted '....showed a greater advance in architecture than had any building yet erected in Manitoba... and which could be viewed with pleasure from any side, having avoided the common error of making the building Queen Anne in front and Mary Ann behind' (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 30 Nov. 1894, 4; C.A.B., vii, 1894, 152).
In his early career he had expressed a disdain for architectural competitions, and when invited by the provincial government to submit plans for the Manitoba Home for Incurables in 1889 he refused, '...as I have decided to prepare plans only for work entrusted to my care without competition, unless I am paid the usual commission, whether my plans are accepted or not' (MPA, RG 18, A2, Correspondence). By 1893, however, he had changed his mind and submitted competitive plans for the new Court House at Winnipeg, but his design was passed over in favour of one by Charles H. Wheeler (C.R., iii, 4 Feb. 1893, l). This loss did not deter him, for just four months later he was again competing for the commission for Wesley College, Winnipeg, and his design was selected ahead of the scheme proposed by his rivals Barber & Barber (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 13 July 1893, 6).
By 1895 Browne was spending the winter season of each year in the Hudson Valley in New York State, a region he seems to have had a particular fondness for, and it gave him a respite from the hectic architectural activity of Winnipeg, and allowed him to "..reach that happy state where it is no longer necessary to dissipate his energies on grinding out what the artist terms 'pot boilers' (biog. on Browne in the Winnipeg Tribune, 1 April 1895, 8). By 1901 he had decided to leave Winnipeg (and indeed Canada) on a permanent basis, taking up residence at 'Brownleigh', his estate on Salisbury Point overlooking the Hudson River at South Nyack, N.Y. (Winnipeg Tribune, 28 May 1901, 7; C.A.B., xvii, May 1904, 85). He died there on 12 March 1919 (obituary in New York Times, 13 March 1919, 3; Gazette [Montreal], 15 March, 1919, 3; biography and portrait in C.A.B., x, Jan 1897, 4; W. Cochrane, Canadian Album: Men of Canada, 1893, iii, 222; biography in G. Bryce, History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People, 1906, 483-84; H. Morgan, Canadian Men and Women of the Time, 1912, 158; inf. R. Rostecki, Winnipeg; F. Thompson, Winnipeg).
George C. BROWNE (Commercial & Industrial works in Winnipeg)
MASSEY CO. WAREHOUSE, William Avenue at Princess Street, 1885 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg] 18 April 1885, 4, descrip.)
ASSINIBOIA & ALBERTA LAND CO., buildings at eleven locations in Manitoba for Sir John Lister Kaye, 3rd Baronet of Grange, County of York, England, 1887 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 14 May 1887, 8; and 13 Nov. 1888, 4). These buildings may be part of the "76" Ranch communities erected in 1888 in five locations in Saskatchewan (at Rush Lake, Gull Lake, Swift Current, Crane Lake, and Kinkorth, Sask.), and in five locations in Alberta (at Dunmore, Stair Ranch [Redcliffe], Bantry, Namaka, and Langdon, Alta.). Each complex included a two storey house, a bunk house, stable & machine shed, granary, windmill, blacksmith shop, harness room, cattle shed, sheep shed, and piggery, with some or all of these buildings utilizing a prototype plan designed by Browne (inf. Hugh Henry, Swift Current, Sask.; inf. Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.)
MILLER, MORSE BLOCK, Princess Street, 1887; with addition 1892 (Winnipeg Sun, 21 July 1887, 4; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 10 Sept. 1887, 4, descrip.; and 8 Oct. 1892, 3, descrip.)
CITY MARKET BUILDING, Market Square, 1889, a commission won in a competition (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 18 March 1889, 2; and 21 May 1889, 4; Manitoba Weekly Free Press, 2 Jan. 1890, 10, detailed architectural descrip.; C.A.B., ii, May 1889, 56; and ix, Jan. 1896, illus.)
PRINCESS STREET at Markham Street, warehouse for H.S. Wesbrooke, 1892 (C.R., ii, 30 Jan 1892, 2)
McGREGOR BLOCK, Princess Street at Jemima Street, 1892 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 12 May 1892, 8)
HOLLAND BLOCK, Princess Street, 1892 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 3 Aug. 1892, 5, t.c.)
HART DAVIES BLOCK, Market Street at Princess Street, 1892; demol. c. 1964 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg] 8 Oct. 1892, 3, descrip.)
HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY WAREHOUSE, York Avenue at Fort Street, 1892, with extension 1893, with addition 1895 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 11 April 1892, 5, descrip.; and 18 Sept. 1893, 8; Winnipeg Tribune, 13 July 1895, 8; drawings at MPA, 543/1, folios. 14-20; C.R., vi, 18 July 1895, 2)
MERRICK, ANDERSON & CO. WAREHOUSE, Market Street East, 1895 (C.R., v, 31 Jan. 1895, 1)
JOHN DYKE BLOCK, Main Street at Graham Avenue, 1896 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 11 June 1896, 6, descrip.; Winnipeg Tribune, 25 Jan. 1897, 5, descrip.)
TRUST & LOAN CO. BLOCK, Portage Avenue at Fort Street, 1898; demol. (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 20 May 1898, 7, descrip. & illus.)
IMPERIAL BANK BLOCK, Main Street at Bannatyne Avenue, extensive alterations and rebuilding of the block, 1898 (Winnipeg Tribune, 20 May 1898, 3, descrip.)
MANITOBA TRUST CO. BUILDING, Main Street at Pioneer Street, 1899-1900, in collaboration with George W. Gouinlock; demol. 1974 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 27 Jan. 1899, 2, t.c.; Winnipeg Telegram, 14 August 1900)
GAULT BROS. BLOCK, Arthur Street at Bannatyne Avenue, a four storey warehouse, 1899-1900 (Winnipeg Tribune, 7 June 1899, 8; Daily Herald [Calgary], 9 June 1899, 4, descrip.; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 20 July 1899, 2, t.c.; Leonard K. Eaton, Gateway Cities & Other Essays, 1989, 96-7, illus.)
HUDSON BAY CO., Main Street, addition to retail store, 1899; demol. 1932 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 12 July 1899, 3)
STRATHCONA BLOCK, Main Street, 1902-3; burned 1976 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 22 Feb. 1902, 1, illus.; C.A.B., xv, Oct. 1902, 128; and xvi, May 1903, 81, descrip.)
FORMAN BLOCK, Fort Street, 1903 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg] 14 Nov. 1903, 18, illus.)
AMERICAN-ABELL ENGINE & THRESHER CO., Dufferin Avenue at Sinclair Street, office and warehouse, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 25 Feb 1903, 3)
HUDSON'S BAY CO., large three storey stables block on Fort Street, 1903 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 25 April 1903, 11, descrip.)
OSBORNE STREET, stores and apartments for J.S. Atkins and George A. Muttlebury , 1905 (C.R., xvi, 24 May 1905, 6)
MORRIS BLOCK, Main Street, a 4 storey addition at the rear, and alterations to existing block, 1906 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 16 April 1906, 3, t.c.; and 6 Dec. 1906, 38)
DYKE BLOCK, Main Street at Graham Street, "opposite the Manitoba Hotel", 1907 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 25 Jan. 1907, 10)
George C. BROWNE (Institutional & Ecclesiastical Works in Winnipeg)
ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, William Avenue at Lydia Street, 1884 (Canadian Church Magazine and Mission News, ix, June 1895, 121-22, descrip. & illus.)
HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH, interior decoration with rood screen at the entrance to the chancel, for Christmas Season in 1887 (Manitoba Daily Free Press, 26 Dec. 1887, 4, descrip.)
GRACE METHODIST CHURCH, Ellice Avenue, major addition to the Sunday School Building, 1889; and a new parsonage for the church, 1892 (Manitoba Weekly Free Press, 28 March 1889, 8, descrip.; Manitoba Free Press, 8 Oct. 1892, 6, descrip.)
CHRIST CHURCH [Anglican], Princess Street, a new Sunday School, 1890 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 9 Oct. 1890, 4)
CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S UNION INDUSTRIAL HOME, McDermot Avenue at Lydia Street, 1890-91 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 17 July 1890, 8, t.c.; and 21 Feb. 1891, 6, descrip.; Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 26 July 1890, 4, illus. & detailed descrip.; and 12 March 1891, 2)
CHRIST CHURCH [Anglican], Princess Street at Fonseca Street, a new brick church, 1891 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 18 May 1891, 5, t.c.)
FIRST GERMAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, Fountain Street at Henry Avenue, 1891 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 10 Aug. 1891, 4, descrip.; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 3 Dec. 1891, 5, descrip.)
GRACE METHODIST CHURCH, Furby Street at Broadway, 1891 (historical article in the Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 10 April 1907, 5)
NORTH CENTRAL SCHOOL (later Norquay School), Euclid Avenue at Lusted Street, 1892; demol. 1956 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 8 Oct. 1892, 3, descrip. & illus.)
MANITOBA COLLEGE, Ellice Avenue at Vaughan Street, major addition of classrooms, a gallery, gymnasia, and meeting rooms, 1892-93; demol. c. 1962 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 5 April 1892, 8, descrip.; and 8 Oct. 1892, 3, descrip.; Winnipeg Tribune, 20 May 1893, 5, illus. & descrip.)
MULVEY SCHOOL, Boundary Street, 1893-94; burned 1895 and rebuilt 1895-96; demol. (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 16 March 1893, 5, descrip.; Winnipeg Tribune, 7 Dec. 1893, 2, descrip.; City of Winnipeg b.p. #890, 1895)
WINNIPEG CANOE CLUB, at Norwood, Man., 1893; demol. (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 18 April 1893, 8, t.c.; Winnipeg Tribune, 22 June 1894, 3, descrip.)
ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Bannatyne Avenue at Isabel Street, 1893-94 (Winnipeg Tribune, 13 June 1893, 5, descrip.; and 22 Dec. 1894, 5, descrip.; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 14 June 1893, 6)
ABERDEEN SCHOOL, Flora Avenue, 1893-94; demol. (Winnipeg Tribune, 7 Dec. 1893, 2, descrip.; 15 Dec. 1893, 4, descrip.; City of Winnipeg b.p. 495, 1893)
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Notre Dame Avenue at Charlotte Street, 1893-94; demol. (Winnipeg Tribune, 24 June 1893, 5, illus. & descrip.; and 29 June 1893, 5, t.c.; and 23 Dec. 1893, 12, illus. & descrip.; and 4 Aug. 1894, 4, illus. & descrip.; J.D. Sinclair, Westminster Church Silver Jubilee Souvenir, 1937, 10, 12, 39, illus.)
FORT GARRY PARK, a public grandstand, "on the Hudson's Bay Co. flats", with club, outdoor seating and caretaker's residence, 1894 (Winnipeg Tribune, 25 April 1894, 8; and 3 July 1894, 1, descrip.)
(with S. Frank Peters) WESLEY HALL (now part of the University of Winnipeg), Portage Avenue, 1894-95 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 13 July 1893, 6; and 15 Jan. 1894, 5, illus. & descrip.; and 30 Nov. 1894, 4; Winnipeg Tribune, 22 Aug. 1894, 5, descrip.)
MASONIC TEMPLE, Donald Street at Ellice Avenue, 1895 (Winnipeg Tribune, 16 May 1895, 5; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 20 Dec. 1895, 1, descrip.)
MANITOBA CLUB, Garry Street, new portico and balcony, 1897; addition and alterations, 1899 (Winnipeg Tribune, 17 May 1897, 8; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 28 June 1899, 2, t.c.)
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, Portage Avenue at Donald Street, 1898-1900; altered 1914 by Percy Nobbs (Winnipeg Tribune, 11 May 1898, 5, illus. & descrip.; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 20 May 1898, 7 and 8, descrip. & illus., and 12 August 1898, 6, descrip. & illus.; and 12 Jan. 1900, 5, descrip.; and 19 Jan. 1900, 3, descrip.; Manitoba Morning Free Press [Winnipeg], 19 Jan. 1900, 5, descrip.; Winnipeg, 1991-The Year Past, 1993, 43-6, illus.)
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA, Science Building, 1899-1900 (C.R., x, 4 Oct. 1899, 3)
George C. BROWNE (Residential works in Winnipeg)
MAYFAIR AVENUE, residence for T.J. McBride, 1887 (Winnipeg Sun, 21 July 1887, 4)
EDMONTON STREET at Ellice Avenue, residence for R. A. Harvey, 1887 (Winnipeg Sun, 21 July 1887, 4)
DONALD STREET, residence for John C. Gordon, 1888; demol. 1920 (Winnipeg Sun, 12 Oct 1888)
MAYFAIR AVENUE, residence for R. H. Agur, 1889 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 28 Feb. 1889, 4, t.c.)
ASSINIBOINE AVENUE, residence for R. H. Bryce, 1889 (Winnipeg Sun, 8 April 1889, 7, t.c.)
CLEMENTS TERRACE, Carlton Street, for George Clement, 1890 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 8 Feb. 1890, 8, t.c.)
STREVEL'S TERRACE, Donald Street, a terrace of five houses for George H. Strevel, 1890 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 4 April 1890, 6; Winnipeg Tribune, 19 April 1890, 5; C.A.B., xii, May 1899, illus.)
GRAHAM AVENUE at Donald Street, major alterations and additions to residence for George Strevel, 1890 (Winnipeg Tribune, 19 April 1890, 5; and 21 April 1890, two separate tender calls on p. 4; C. Cameron & J. Wright, Second Empire Style in Canadian Architecture, 1980, 216-17, illus.)
DONALD STREET, residence for Hugh J. MacDonald, 1890 (Winnipeg Tribune Souvenir, 1891)
OSBORNE STREET NORTH, near the bridge, in Fort Rouge, extensive alterations and additions to residence for Frederick H. Brydges, 1890 (Winnipeg Tribune, 20 June 1890, 2, t.c.). Note - This house was originally designed in 1880 by Balston C. Kenway.
DONALD STREET at St. Mary's street, residence for G.T. Orton, 1891; demol. 1945 (City of Winnipeg b.p. 21 May 1891)
KENNEDY STREET, residence for A. Wickson, 1892; demol. (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 8 Oct. 1892, 6, descrip.)
MAYFAIR AVENUE, residence for Thomas Young, 1892 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 8 Oct. 1892, 6)
HARGRAVE STREET, residence for W.H. Dingle, 1892 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 8 Oct. 1892, 6)
COLONY STREET, residence for W.J. Watson, 1893; demol. (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 16 Feb. 1893, 6)
COLONY STREET, residence for Rev. A.B. Baird, 1893 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 16 Feb. 1893, 6)
COOPER AVENUE at Colony Street, residence for William Clark, 1893 (C.R., iv, 20 April 1893, 2)
BALMORAL STREET, residence for W.H. Walker, 1893 (Winnipeg Tribune, 11 July 1893, 8)
KENNEDY STREET, at Broadway, a pair of houses for Mrs. Thomas Clark, 1894 (Winnipeg Tribune, 29 March 1894, 8; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 3 Nov. 1894, 1)
HARGRAVE STREET, opposite the Granite Rink, residence for Dr. J.S. Gray, 1894 (Winnipeg Tribune, 4 April 1894, 8)
DONALD STREET, at Assiniboine Avenue, large addition and alterations to residence for John S. Ewart, 1896 (Manitoba Morning Free Press [Winnipeg], 30 May 1896, 6, t.c.)
COLONY STREET, residence for William Blackwood, 1896; demol. 1937 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg] 11 June 1896, 6, descrip.)
EDMONTON STREET, residence for W.H. Culver, 1896; demol. c. 1960 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg] 11 June 1896, 6, descrip.)
FORT ROUGE, extensive alterations and improvements to the old Brophy residence, Roslyn Road, for the new owner D.W. Bole, 1897 (Winnipeg Tribune, 24 March 1897, 2, descrip.)
EDMONTON STREET, near Assiniboine Avenue, residence for Mrs. Richardson, 1898 (Winnipeg Tribune, 8 Sept. 1898, 8)
EDMONTON STREET SOUTH, near Assiniboine Avenue, residence for Joseph Huxley, 1899 (Winnipeg Tribune, 27 April 1899, 4, t.c.; and 29 April 1899, 5)
EDMONTON STREET, south of Broadway, residence for Harry M. Belcher, 1900 (Winnipeg Tribune, 5 April 1900, 6, t.c.; City of Winnipeg b.p. 146, 1900; L. Maitland, Queen Anne Revival Style in Canadian Architecture, 1990, 153, illus.)
ASSINIBOINE AVENUE, residence for J. Somerset Aikins, 1900; demol. (City of Winnipeg b.p. 147, 1900)
DONALD STREET, residence for Dr. S.W. Prowse, 1900 (C.R., xi, 23 May 1900, 2)
BROADWAY, at Main Street, a residential block for Lord Strathcona, 1902 (Winnipeg Tribune, 27 March 1902, 4)
NASSAU STREET, residence for W.E. Robinson, 1903 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 25 April 1903, 8)
BROADWAY, pair of houses for Fred Stobart, 1903 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 25 April 1903, 8)
STRADBROOKE PLACE, residence for T. Seaton Ewart, 1903 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 30 May 1903, 3)
ASSINIBOINE AVENUE, residence for Louis Verhoeven, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 9 Sept. 1903, 2)
LEWIS STREET, at River Avenue, apartment block located opposite Assiniboine Place, for an unnamed client, 1903-04 (Winnipeg Tribune, 7 Nov. 1903, 6)
EDMONTON STREET, residence for W. Sanford Evans, 1904 (C.A.B., xvii, Oct. 1904, illus.)
WELLINGTON CRESCENT, residence for Capt. Scarrell A. Cape, 1905 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg] 30 Oct. 1905, 28, descrip.)
HARVARD AVENUE, residence for Prof. Frank Allen, 1905 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 30 Oct. 1905, 28)
George C. BROWNE (works elsewhere in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia)
MORDEN, MAN., Registry Office, 1887 (Morning Call [Winnipeg], 30 Sept. 1887, 4, t.c.)
MANITOBA PROVINCE, Bonanza Farm buildings at eleven different rural farm locations, for Sir John Lyster Kaye, 3rd Baronet of Grange, County of York, England, 1888 (Manitoba Weekly Free Press, 19 April 1888, 7; Manitoba Sun [Winnipeg], 3 Aug. 1888, 4, t.c.; Manitoba Daily Free Press [Winnipeg], 13 Nov. 1888, 4)
KEEWATIN, ONT., housing for mill workers of the Lake of the Woods Milling Co., 1888 (inf. Ms. J. Mather)
CALGARY, ALTA., a 3 storey stone commercial block for Sir John Lyster Kaye, 1888-89 (Calgary Tribune, 19 Dec. 1888, 3)
ST. FRANCOIS XAVIER, MAN., The Ashley Farm, new buildings including dairy building, butter making building, barns, stables and storehouses, for W. & J.M. Pearson, with a new residence for W. Pearson, 1890-91 (Manitoba Weekly Free Press (Winnipeg), 9 Jan. 1890, 6)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., Imperial Bank, Saskatchewan Avenue East, 1890 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 16 April 1890, 8; and 15 Aug 1893, 8)
CARMAN, MAN., a large 2 storey commercial block with a bank, a drug store, a hardware store, and 15 offices, for an unnamed client, perhaps The Leader Block, Main Street South at 2nd Avenue SE, 1890; still standing in 2023 (Winnipeg Tribune, 11 June 1890, 3, descrip.)
MANITOU, MAN, Hudson Bay Co. Store, 1890 (Manitou Mercury, 23 Aug. 1890, 3)
FORT WILLIAM, ONT., Hudson Bay Co. Store, 1890-91 (Winnipeg Tribune, 5 Sept. 1890, 4; The Journal [Fort William], 31 Jan. 1891, l, descrip.)
EDMONTON, ALTA., Hudson Bay Co. Store, Jasper Avenue West at Third Avenue; 1892 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 31 Aug. 1892, 8)
KEEWATIN, ONT., 'Erin Castle', residence for R.J. Whitla on Coney Island, 1893; demol. c. 1910 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 6 May 1893, 6)
KEEWATIN, ONT., 'Lone Pine Lodge', residence for D.K. Elliott on Coney Island, 1893 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 6 May 1893, 6)
KEEWATIN, ONT., addition to the Hudson Bay Co. Store, 1893 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 6 May 1893, 6)
GRENFELL, SASK., Skrine Block for Osmund P. Skrine, 1893 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 10 July 1893, 8)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., Newman Block, 1893 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 12 July 1893, 6; Winnipeg Tribune, 20 Sept. 1893, 8)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., Imperial Bank, Saskatchewan Avenue East, 1893 (Winnipeg Tribune, 20 Sept. 1893, 8)
VANCOUVER, B.C., Hudson Bay Co. warehouse, Water Street near Cambie Street, 1893 (Winnipeg Tribune, 25 Sept. 1893, 8, descrip.)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., three separate school buildings, including the East Ward School, the North Ward School, and the West Ward School, 1894 (Winnipeg Tribune, 5 May 1894, 8; C.A.B., vii, May 1894, 66; and ix, May 1896, illus.)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., Court House and addition to the Jail, Duke Avenue, 1894-95 (Winnipeg Tribune, 9 April 1894, 8; C.A.B., vii,, April 1894, 55, descrip.; and xi, Jan. 1898, illus.; M. Carter, Early Canadian Court Houses, 1983, 146, 224, illus.)
KENORA, ONT., Court House, 1894, later replaced with a new Court House in 1911 by Francis R. Heakes (C.R., v, 12 April 1894, 2)
CALGARY, ALTA., major addition to the Hudson's Bay Co. Store, 8th Avenue West at Centre Street, 1894-95 (Winnipeg Tribune, 25 Aug. 1894, 8; Weekly Herald (Calgary), 7 Aug. 1895, 3, col. 4)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., Hudson's Bay Co. Store, Saskatchewan Avenue, 1895 (Winnipeg Tribune, 25 July 1895, 5; Manitoba, Early Architecture of Portage la Prairie, 1983, illus.)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., extensive alterations and new facade for the Leland Hotel, 1895 (Winnipeg Tribune, 5 Sept. 1895, 5; Manitoba, Early Architecture of Portage la Prairie, 1983, illus., but lacking attribution)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., residence for Mr. Leslie, manager of the Imperial Bank, 1895 (Winnipeg Tribune, 5 Sept. 1895, 5)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., new facade for the McLenaghan Block, "...nearly 100 ft. long", 1896 (Winnipeg Tribune, 31 March 1896, 5)
BATTLEFORD, SASK., public school, 1896 (Winnipeg Tribune, 24 March 1896, 8; Qu'Appelle Progress, 9 April 1896, 2)
INDIAN HEAD, SASK., a stone residence for the Presbyterian Indian Mission, located "...18 miles south of Indian Head", on the Assiniboine Reserve, 1896 (Brandon Mail, 2 April 1896, 7; Qu'Appelle Progress, 9 April 1896, 2; inf. Frank Korvemaker, Regina)
MOOSE MOUNTAIN, SASK., residence for the Presbyterian Indian Mission, White Bear Reserve, 1896 (Winnipeg Tribune, 4 May 1896, 8)
MINNEDOSA, MAN., schoolhouse, 1897 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 17 July 1897, 5, t.c.)
NEEPAWA, MAN., Union Bank, 1898 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 22 Aug. 1898, 5, t.c.)
NELSON, B.C., Hudson's Bay Store, Stanley Street at Baker Street, 1899 (Winnipeg Tribune, 22 May 1899, 8; and 27 May 1899, 8)
CARBERRY, MAN., Union Bank, Main Street, 1901 (C.R., xii, 15 May 1901, 3; Winnipeg Tribune, 27 May 1901 4, t.c.)
HAMIOTA, MAN., Union Bank, Maple Street, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 4 June 1902, 2)
GRETNA, MAN., Union Bank, 7th Street, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 20 Aug. 1902, 2)
ARCOLA, SASK., Union Bank, Main Street near Railway Avenue, 1902-03; still standing in 2023 (C.R., xiii, 8 Oct. 1902, 2)
HOLLAND, MAN., Union Bank, Broadway Street, 1903 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 25 April 1903, 8; C.R., xiv, 6 May 1903, 4)
INDIAN HEAD, SASK., Union Bank, Grand Avenue at Otterloo Street, 1903; still standing in 2023 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 30 May 1903, 3; inf. Frank Korvemaker, Regina)
YORKTON, SASK., Union Bank, Broadway Street East at 3rd Avenue East, 1903; still standing in 2023 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 30 May 1903, 3; inf. Frank Korvemaker, Regina)
REGINA, SASK., Union Bank, South Railway Street at Hamilton Street, 1904; demol. 1982 (Daily Herald [Calgary], 29 Feb. 1904, 2, descrip.; The Leader (Regina), 25 May 1904, 1, illus. and descrip.; inf. Frank Korvemaker, Regina)
MINNEDOSA, MAN., St. Mark's Anglican Church, 2nd Avenue West, near 1st Street SW, 1904; still standing in 2023 (Canadian Churchman [Toronto], 1 Dec. 1904, 729-30, descrip.)
COMPETITIONS
WINNIPEG, MAN., The Davis Block, King Street at Market Street, 1894. Browne was one of three architects who submitted a design for this large commercial block for Mr. Davis (Winnipeg Tribune, 3 April 1894, 8). His plans were set aside and Charles H. Wheeler won the commission.