The Manitoba home of a former prime minister hits the market
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The real estate listing for one Manitoba home promises aspiring house hunters the chance to live in a former prime minister’s digs.
These days, real estate listings tout the splendours of granite countertops, finished basements or spa showers.
But the listing for one Manitoba home promises aspiring house hunters the chance to live in a former prime minister’s digs.
After a stint on the market last year, the Portage la Prairie, Man. home of former prime minister Arthur Meighen is up for sale once again.
The over 2,400-square-foot, 2.5-storey character home features a formal dining room, oak mouldings, a gas fireplace and the very claw-foot tub that sat in the home when Meighen lived there over a hundred years ago.
According to Portage le Prairie Heritage Advisory Committee chair James Kostuchuk, Meighen first moved to the Manitoba city around 1902 to set up a law firm. He didn’t buy the home on Dufferin Avenue East until 1916. By then he was already twice elected to the House of Commons. He moved in with his wife and three chidren.
“He owned that property until 1928,” Kostuchuk said.
“From the work that our committee did, there's no record of him owning any other home in Portage after that date. So to the best of our knowledge, that was his home until the family officially left Portage la Prairie.”
