John Danley Atchison
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John Danley Atchison
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Born at Monmouth, Illinois on 17 February 1870, son of Nathaniel Atchison and Elizabeth Danley, he was trained at the Chicago Art Institute and the Chicago Manual Training School before moving to Winnipeg in 1905. He served as President of the Manitoba Association of Architects (1911) and was a member of the Art Committee of the Winnipeg School of Art from 1913 to 1923. Atchison was the most important “Chicago style” architect in Winnipeg, designing nearly 100 buildings.
He and wife Grace Relyea Abeel (1871-?) had four children, the youngest two of whom were born in Winnipeg: Isabel Relyea Atchison (1902-1978), Elizabeth Danley “Betty” Atchison (1905-?), John Danley Atchison (1907-1968), and Robert Abeel Atchison (1910-1993). In September 1923, the family moved to Los Angeles, California where he continued his architectural practice.
He died at Los Angeles, California on 20 June 1959 and was buried there.
Some of his architectural works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
389-393 Graham Avenue, Winnipeg
1905
Demolished (1979)
540 Balmoral Street, Winnipeg
1905
315-323 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1906
Partly destroyed by fire (1973)
544 Wardlaw Avenue, Winnipeg
1906
271 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1906
563 William Avenue, Winnipeg
1906
Lee Court
217 Donald Street, Winnipeg
1906
Demolished (?)
635-645 Main Street / 185 Logan Avenue, Winnipeg
1906-1907
110-120 Princess Street, Winnipeg
1907
Jordan Block
305 Fort Street, Winnipeg
1907
Demolished (?)
Peck Building (addition)
33 Princess Street, Winnipeg
1907
16 Ruskin Row, Winnipeg
1908
166 Roslyn Road, Winnipeg
1908
Demolished (2017)
Thomas Building (addition)
291 Garry Street, Winnipeg
1908
376 Broadway, Winnipeg
1908
Demolished (1982)
213 Kingsway, Winnipeg
1908
Winnipeg Police Court (renovation)
223 James Avenue, Winnipeg
1908
296-298 Garry Street, Winnipeg
1909
Edmonton Block
383-389 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1909
Demolished (?)
14 Ruskin Row, Winnipeg
1909
161-165 Stafford Street, Winnipeg
1909
234 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1909
66 King Street, Winnipeg
1909
54 Donald Street, Winnipeg
1909
408 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg
1909
409-411 Balmoral Street, Winnipeg
1909
Demolished (?)
177 Lombard Avenue, Winnipeg
1909-1911
106 Balmoral Street, Winnipeg
1910
Eastern Townships Bank
367-369 Main Street, Winnipeg
1910
Demolished (?)
283 Fort Street, Winnipeg
1910
Demolished (1946)
275 Colony Street, Winnipeg
1910
104 Balmoral Street, Winnipeg
1910
Dingwall House
52 Roslyn Road, Winnipeg
1910
Demolished (?)
Consolidated Plate Glass Warehouse
375 Balmoral Street, Winnipeg
1911
Demolished (?)
Gooderham House (Harold Dean Gooderham)
323 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg
1911
Demolished (?)
Nanton Block
391 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1911
Demolished (1985)
Allan Killam McKay Building
364 Main Street, Winnipeg
1911-1912
Demolished (?)
384-392 Portage Avenue / 270 Edmonton Street, Winnipeg
1911-1912
575-581 Portage Avenue / 351-357 Langside Street, Winnipeg
1912
Destroyed by fire (2 February 2022)
280 Main Street, Winnipeg
1912
354 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1912
Main Street at Water Avenue, Winnipeg
1912
Demolished (?)
585-587 Ellice Avenue / 479 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg
1912
Union Tower Building
387 Main Street, Winnipeg
1912
103 Furby Street, Winnipeg
1913
282-294 Graham Avenue / 244 Smith Street, Winnipeg
1913
Demolished (1974)
1386 Main Street, Winnipeg
1913
667 Wolseley Avenue, Winnipeg
1913
191 Lombard Avenue, Winnipeg
1913
257 Smith Street, Winnipeg
1913-1914
Demolished (1983)
318 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg
1914
227-249 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1915
1490 Henderson Highway, Winnipeg
1915
939 Henderson Highway, Winnipeg
1915
795 Prince Rupert Avenue, Winnipeg
1915
Demolished (July 1987)
Bank of Hamilton
395 Main Street, Winnipeg
1916-1918
Inglis Building (addition and alterations)
291 Garry Street, Winnipeg
1916
168 Wilton Street, Winnipeg
1916
Demolished (1957)
686 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1916
820 McPhillips Street, Winnipeg
1917
National Theatre (alterations)
300 Fort Street, Winnipeg
1917
Demolished (1930)
104 Church Street, Emerson, Municipality of Emerson-Franklin
1917-1918
Bettes Block (alterations)
289-295 Carlton Street / 353-355 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1919
Demolished (?)
Kennedy Block (conversion)
315-323 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1919
Partly destroyed by fire (1973)
Red Cross Lodge, Fort Osborne Barracks
Tuxedo
1919
Demolished (?)
343-347 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1919
Demolished (?)
Alaska Bedding Warehouse (addition)
129 Gomez Street North, Winnipeg
1920
500 Shaftesbury Boulevard, Winnipeg
1921-1922
Medical Arts Building
Graham Avenue at Kennedy Street, Winnipeg
1922-1923
105 Yale Avenue, Winnipeg
1923
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Samuel Sinnott “Sam” Kennedy (1877-1961)
Memorable Manitobans: Edward Parkinson (1878-1953)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Bank of Toronto Building (456 Main Street, Winnipeg)
John D. Atchison Was Here by Gail Perry
Prairie History, Number 1, Winter 2020
Birth registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Winnipeg’s big building development during 1908,” Winnipeg Tribune, 19 December 1908, page 31.
“New building for Garry Street,” Winnipeg Tribune, 9 May 1911, page 1.
“Building permits,” Manitoba Free Press, 5 July 1911, page 16.
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“Reach $5,000,000 mark,” Manitoba Free Press, 17 May 1911, page 10.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
The Leading Financial, Business & Professional Men of Winnipeg, published by Edwin McCormick, Photographs by T. J. Leatherdale, Compiled and printed by Stone Limited, c1913. [copy available at the Archives of Manitoba]
“Tenders for building,” Manitoba Free Press, 17 June 1914, page 2.
“East Kildonan building three fine new schools,” Manitoba Free Press, 30 April 1915, page 4.
“Society,” Winnipeg Tribune, 19 September 1923, page 8.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
“Temple facade to get new life,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 July 1985.
Crescentwood, A History by R. R. Rostecki, Winnipeg: Crescentwood Home Owners Association, 1993.
John Danley Atchison, Geni.
John Danley Atchison, FindAGrave.
We thank Nathan Kramer, Murray Peterson, and Jordan Makichuk for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 November 2024
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