RAIC Awards: Original town site of Grand Falls

WINNER OF THE RAIC’S 2025 PRIX DU XXE SIECLE

The 1913 Grand Falls Post Office still remains in the town. Photo courtesy Grand Falls-Windsor Heritage Society

LOCATION Grand Falls, Newfoundland

DESIGNER Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co.

Grand Falls is remarkable for being among the first—possibly the first—garden cities created outside the United Kingdom at the beginning of the twentieth century. Designed and built by members of the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co. between 1906 and 1909...