Architect.
Born at Oxfordshire, England in 1865, he trained as an architect from 1882 to 1885 with a firm at Reading and as a draughtsman in 1886 at London. He came to Winnipeg in the spring of 1887 and took employment in the engineer’s office of the Northern Pacific Railway, and later in the Land Titles Office. He began to practice as an architect in 1893, designing a number of commercial and residential buildings. In 1904, he was a founding member of the Winnipeg Automobile Club.
Some of his architectural works in Manitoba included:
Building |
Location |
Year |
Status |
McMeans House |
40 West Gate, Winnipeg |
1893 |
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Thomas Ryan Warehouse |
104 King Street, Winnipeg |
1895 |
Demolished (2010) |
Knox Presbyterian Church |
15 Tupper Street South, Portage la Prairie |
1897 |
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Brookside Chapel and Winter Vault |
Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg |
1897 |
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Fire Hall No. 1 / Central Fire Hall |
110 Albert Street, Winnipeg |
1898-1899 |
Demolished (1966) |
St. Mary’s la Prairie Anglican Church |
36 Second Street NW, Portage la Prairie |
1898-1899 |
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Machray School No. 2 |
Charles Street, Winnipeg |
1899 |
Demolished (?) |
Leckie Building |
216 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg |
1900 |
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Belmont School No. 441 |
Belmont |
1901 |
Demolished (?) |
Baker Block |
468 Main Street, Winnipeg |
1901 |
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C. Vokes Residence |
136 Middle Gate, Winnipeg |
1902 |
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Vendome Hotel (expansion) |
308 Fort Street, Winnipeg |
1902 |
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St. Boniface Normal School |
210 rue Masson, St. Boniface |
1902 |
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Odd Fellows Hall |
376 Mountain Avenue, Neepawa |
1903 |
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Macdonald Block / Commercial Hotel (renovation) |
226 Main Street, Winnipeg |
1903 |
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Criterion Hotel |
214 McDermot Street, Winnipeg |
1903 |
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Carberry Methodist Church |
Third Avenue, Carberry |
1903 |
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MacGregor School No. 240 |
MacGregor |
1903 |
Demolished (1975) |
Brandon Asylum for the Insane (addition) |
First Street, Brandon |
1903-1905 |
Destroyed by fire (November 1910) |
Roland School No. 902 |
Roland |
1904 |
Demolished (?) |
Wolseley Hotel |
186 Higgins Avenue, Winnipeg |
1904 |
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Strathcona Hotel |
567 Main Street, Winnipeg |
1905 |
Demolished (?) |
Oxford Hotel |
216 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg |
1905 |
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Lendrum McMeans Residence |
40 West Gate, Winnipeg |
1907 |
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Sources:
The Canadian Architect and Builder, Volume 10, Issue 1, page 5, 1897.
“The city schools,” Manitoba Free Press, 15 March 1899, page 3.
Buildings at the Brandon Mental Health Centre by David Butterfield and Randy Rostecki, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch, November 1988.
Winnipeg Buildings Index.
Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 September 2022
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