Draftsman, architect.
Born at Dundas, Ontario on 13 March 1879, he worked as a draftsman for W. P. Witton of Hamilton (Ontario), Brunner, Knowles and Hubbell (New York City), and Darling & Pearson and Sproatt & Rolph of Toronto before becoming the latter’s Winnipeg representative in 1905-1906. He supervised or prepared plans for two apartment blocks, an addition to Colin H. Campbell’s Main Street store, and houses for E. B. Nash, and J. Thompson. He was a partner with David William Fair Nichols from 1907 to late 1909, with whom he designed homes for E. F. Lang, H. M. Tucker, and Ross and Redmond; a gymnasium addition to the home of H. P. H. Galloway; and the Ontario, Manitoba and Western Land Company Building on Portage Avenue. The partnership dissolved in 1909 and he moved back to Hamilton where he practiced until 1924 then moved to Toronto where he remained professionally active into the 1950s. He died at Toronto on 13 January 1962.
Some of the architectural works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
36 Roslyn Road, Winnipeg
1907
Demolished (September 2023)
Gladstone Municipal Building
Gladstone
1907
Demolished (?)
Hague House [Clifford Clarke Hague]
Furby Street, Winnipeg
1907
289-295 Carlton Street / 353-355 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1907-1908
Demolished (?)
Hutchings House [Elisha Frederick Hutchings]
Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg
1907-1908
396 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg
1908
Bettes Block (expansion)
289-295 Carlton Street / 353-355 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
1909
Demolished (?)
106 Middle Gate, Winnipeg
1909
“Municipal building for Gladstone,” Manitoba Free Press, 20 April 1907, page 13.
J. C. Falls House (36 Roslyn Road), City of Winnipeg Historical Buildings Committee, January 1994.
Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Jordan Makichuk for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 July 2024
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