The Webb block Could this be saskatoon's first apartment building?
On the downtown corner of 25th Street East and Third Avenue North, there is a longstanding two-storey apartment building with a buff-coloured brick façade. As a young child, Amanda Soulodre had a recurring thought whenever she passed by.
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“I thought the Huxtable family lived there,” she says, noting the similarities between the Saskatoon building and the brick row house that stood stood in for the fictional New York City home on The Cosby Show. As publisher of Saskatoon HOME, Amanda
saw a way to sate her interest in the property. She’s not the only person who’s been curious about the building and its tenants. Brad Maguire and his family have owned the building for the past two decades. Known as the Webb Block, it was built
by Frederick Webb in 1908. And it might just be Saskatoon’s first apartment building. “It seems like a rumour, but there’s no evidence that anything else was built previously,” says Brad. When his family took ownership, Brad’s own curiosity led Saskatoon HOME fall 2018