This large brick home was built for the honourable J.D McGregor, an internationally known cattle breeder who later served as Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba from 1929 to 1935. The multiple gables and chimneys, the broken roof line and projecting windows, the various window shapes and raised brick arches and banding are all indicative of the Queen Anne style of architecture popular during the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The enclosed front portico replaced an open verandah that originally ran along the front of the building.