BRIDGMAN, Charles Saunders (1875-1965) was born in Toronto and trained in London, Ont. with the firm of McBride, Jones & Farncomb from 1892 until 1900. He moved to New York City and studied under Emanuel L. Masqueray, the Paris-born architect who had worked in the office of Carrere & Hastings and then conducted his own atelier in New York. In 1903 Bridgman returned to Canada and opened an office in Winnipeg where, for the next thirty years, he sustained a successful practice designing institutional, ecclesiastical and residential works. These included many landmark apartment blocks such as the DeBary Apartments (1912), a unique complex designed in the Queen Anne Revival style incorporating an exterior light court positioned on a diagonal off the corner lot. In 1937 Bridgman returned to London, Ont. and later collaborated with his brother L. Gordon Bridgman on several projects. He retired in 1955 and died in London on 17 October 1965 (obit. Free Press [London], 18 Oct. 1965, 25; biog. and list of works Winnipeg Telegram, 18 Sept. 1906, 55)
(works in Winnipeg unless noted)
SMITH STREET, near Assiniboine Avenue, terrace of five houses for B. & A. McBean, 1904 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 11 May 1904, 10)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., Portage La Prarie Hotel, c. 1905 (Winnipeg Telegram, 18 Sept. 1906, 55, list of works)
ST. LUKE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Stradbrooke Place at Nassau Street, 1904-05; with new Font inside the Nave, 1906 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 25 May 1904, 2, descrip.; 17 Sept. 1904, 6, descrip.; 17 Feb. 1906, 8, descrip.; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 20 Feb. 1905, 6, descrip.; Canadian Churchman [Toronto], 2 March 1905, 137, descrip.)
ARMSTRONG POINT, residence for Dr. S.C. Corbett, 1905 (C.R., xv, 15 March 1905, 6, t.c.)
ANDERSON & BRYAN CO., Henry Avenue, warehouse, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 28 June 1905, 4, t.c.)
SMITH STREET, residence for Issac Cockburn, c. 1905 (Winnipeg Telegram, 18 Sept. 1906, 55, list of works)
ST. GILES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Burrows Avenue at Charles Street, 1907-08 (C.R., xviii, 6 March 1907, 7, t.c.; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 6 April 1907, 9, illus. & descrip.; 14 March 1908, 5, illus. & descrip.)
RIPSTEIN APARTMENTS, Logan Avenue at Martha Street, 1906; demol. (C.R., xvii, 18 April 1906, 7; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 26 April 1906, 12, illus. & descrip.)
STRADBROOKE PLACE, near Nassau Street, residence for the architect, 1907 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 29 June 1907, 29, illus. & descrip.; Building Progress Number, 21 Nov. 1907, 24, descrip.)
MILLS APARTMENTS, Main Street near Pritchard Avenue, 1908 (C.R., xxii, 28 Oct. 1908, 24)
ARMSTRONG'S POINT, residence for R.T. Riley, 1909 (Winnipeg Tribune, 6 May 1909, 2)
CHESTNUT STREET, residence for George T. Platt, 1909 (Winnipeg Tribune, 6 May 1909, 2)
ST. JOHN'S, MAN., residence for W. Drewry, 1909 (Winnipeg Tribune, 6 May 1909, 2)
BROADWAY, near Young Street, residence for Alfred Maw, 1909 (Winnipeg Tribune, 6 May 1909, 2)
MILLMAN BLOCK, River Avenue at Osborne Street, a three storey block of stores and apartments for H.M. Millman, 1909 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 19 April 1909, 2, t.c.; Winnipeg Tribune, 29 May 1909, 1, descrip.)
HETHRINGTON AVENUE, at Pembina Hwy., apartment block for Agnes Metcalfe, 1909 (Winnipeg b.p. 888, 1909)
RIVERVIEW MANSIONS, Spence Street at Balmoral Place, 1910 (Winnipeg b.p. 641, 14 April 1910)
ETHELBERT STREET, residence for Dr. Raymond Brown, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 26 July 1911, 61)
ANVERS APARTMENTS, McMillan Avenue at Ainslie Street, 1912 (Winnipeg b.p. 2034, 12 June 1912; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 15 March 1913, 11, illus.)
DE BARY APARTMENTS, Wardlaw Avenue, 1912 (Winnipeg b.p. 2035, 12 June 1912; l. Maitland, Queen Anne Revival Style in Canadian Architecture, 1990, 182, illus.)
BRUSSELS APARTMENTS, Lilac Street at Dorchester Avenue, for the Belgo Canadian Real Estate Co., 1912 (Winnipeg. b.p. 2061, 13 June 1912; Winnipeg Tribune, 14 June 1912, 1, descrip.; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 15 March 1913, 11, illus.)
REGAL COURT APARTMENTS, Maryland Street at Alloway Avenue, 1912 (Winnipeg Tribune, 22 June 1912, 1, descrip.; Winnipeg b.p. 2261, 21 June 1912)
OSBORNE RIVER BLOCK, River Avenue at Osborne Street, stores and apartments, 1912 (Const., v, April 1912, 50, illus.)
YALE AVENUE, residence for Ira S.K. Weber, 1912 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 21 Dec. 1912, 13, illus. & descrip.)
GODFREY STREET, at Crescent Avenue, residence for W. Arthur Hossie, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 28 May 1913, 71)
ELLICE AVENUE, at Sherbrook Street, apartment block for Schott Hill & Co., 1914 (Winnipeg b.p. 298, 1914)
WEST ST. PAUL, MAN., Municipal Hall, 1917 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 20 March 1917, 11, t.c.)
HENRY AVENUE, warehouse for Frank H. Wiley, 1918 (C.R., xxxii, 6 Feb. 1918, 41, t.c.)
DAWSON-RICHARDSON PUB. LTD., McDermot Avenue, 1921 (Winnipeg b.p. 1095, 21 May 1921; Winnipeg, 1985-The Year Past, 41-2, illus.)
CANADIAN UKRANIAN INSTITUTE, Arlington Street at Pritchard Avenue, 1921 (Winnipeg. b.p. 2295, 1921)
CYPRESS RIVER, MAN., Union Church, 1921 (Manitoba, Study of Church Buildings in Manitoba, 1987, 93, illus.)
BALMORAL STREET, apartment block, 1924 (Winnipeg b.p. 570, 1924)
SHERBROOK STREET, south of Broadway, apartment block near Young Church, 1925 (Const., xviii, May 1925, 155)
YOUNG STREET, at Westminster Avenue, a three storey apartment block for an unnamed client, 1926 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 6 March 1926, 13)
ROSLYN ROAD, near Osborne Street, an 18 unit apartment block for an unnamed client, 1927 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 29 March 1927, 6)
SPENCE STREET, between Ellice Avenue and Sargent Avenue, apartment block for L.J. Hallgrimson, 1929 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 26 March 1929, 3, descrip.)
MOOSE JAW, SASK., British American Oil Co., First Avenue West, gas station, 1929 (Moose Jaw b.p. 2 April 1929)
BEACON MOVIE THEATRE, Main Street near Rupert Avenue, extensive renovations to the former Strand Theatre, 1930 (Manitoba Free Press, 8 Nov. 1930, 23)
COMPETITIONS
ST BONIFACE, MAN., Town Hall, 1905. Bridgman was one of 8 local Winnipeg architects who submitted a design for this civic landmark (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 16 June 1905, 16). The winner was Victor Horwood of Winnipeg.