George Wallace Gouinlock
George Wallace Gouinlock (August 1, 1861 – February 13, 1932) was a prominent Canadian architect. Gouinlock practiced mostly in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, including several designated buildings at Exhibition Place.
George Wallace Gouinlock | |
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Born | August 1, 1861 Paris, Ontario, Canada |
Died | February 13, 1932 70) Toronto, Ontario, Canada | (aged
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | architect |
His son George Roper Gouinlock (1896–1979) also practised architecture.
Biography
Gouinlock was born in 1861 in Paris, Ontario to Walter and Elizabeth Gouinlock.[1] Gouinlock trained in various cities (including Hamilton, Chicago and Milwaukee) towards becoming an architect.[2] He later moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba[3] as a junior architect with Barber, Bowes & Barber.[2] He came back to Toronto in 1888 and began a partnership with architect Francis S. Baker (as Gouinlock & Baker)[4] from 1888 to 1890.[2]
The bulk of Gouinlock's work was in Toronto. In 1895, he was Chair of the Toronto Society of Architects[5] and President of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1909.[2] Gouinlock retired in 1927.
Gouinlock married Georgina Watson in 1889[1] and had two sons George Roper and Robert W., and a daughter, Laura H.[6]
Gouinlock died on February 13, 1932, and is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto.[3]
George Roper Gouinlock
George Wallace's son George Roper Gouinlock (1896-1979) was also an architect, whom with Hugh L. Allward (1899-1971) formed the Allward and Gouinlock partnership in 1935.[7] Allward was the son of sculptor Walter Allward and great-grandfather of Port Perry based landscape architect Hugh Allward.[8]
Projects
George Wallace Gouinlock projects
Many of Gouinlock's buildings were Beaux-Arts. His works also feature other architectural styles. Many buildings at Exhibition Place were designed by Gouinlock:
- Press Building, 210 Princes' Boulevard 1905 (Beaux-Arts)[9]
- Music Building, 285 Manitoba Drive 1907 (Beaux-Arts) - formerly Railway Building[10]
- CNE Grandstand 1907, destroyed by fire 1947 and rebuilt as Exhibition Stadium 1948
- Horticulture Building, 15 Saskatchewan Road 1907 (Beaux-Arts)[11]
- CNE Fire Hall and Police Station, 90 Quebec Street 1912 - (Tudor Revival)[12]
- CNE Government Building 1912 (Beaux-Arts), 10 Dufferin Street - now Medieval Times Building, formerly Government Building and Arts, Crafts and Hobbies Building[13]
Other works across Toronto and beyond included:
- 117-119 Collier Street 1891[14]
- Charles Steinle Meat Packing Company, 256 King Street East 1892[14]
- American Watch Case Company, 511 King Street West 1893[14]
- Temple Building, Toronto (Bay and Richmond) 1895 - demolished 1970[15]
- Manitoba Trust Company Building, Winnipeg (Main Street and Pioneer Street) 1899-1900 - with George Creeford Browne and demolished 1974[16]
- Town Hall, St. Marys, Ontario 1901 (Romanesque Revival)[17]
- Bank of Hamilton, 165 Spadina Avenue 1902 - now CIBC branch[14]
- Marshall McLuhan’s House (Sir W.T. White House) and Coach House, 39 and 39a Queen's Park Crescent 1903,[14][18]
- Consumer's Gas Company addition, 23 Toronto Street 1904[14]
- Warwick Bros. and Rutter Publishers, 401 King Street West 1905[19]
- Sovereign Bank, 172 King Street East 1907[14]
- Broadview Hotel renovation 1907
- Canadian Birkbeck Savings and Investment Company Head Office, 10 Adelaide Street East, Toronto 1908 (Edwardian) - now Ontario Heritage Centre[20]
- William Peyton Hubbard House, 660 Broadview Avenue 1909[14]
- Ontario Legislative Building North Wing, 1 Queen's Park Crescent 1909[21]
- MacLean Building, 345 Adelaide Street West 1914[14]
- Princess Margaret Hospital - South Building, University Avenue 1915[22] - formerly Ontario Hydro-Electric Building
- Art Gallery of Toronto conceptual drawings[23]
- Alexandra Palace, Toronto - demolished
George Roper Gouinlock projects
- Scarborough High School (1922, partially demolished in 1976) - with Burden and Harold Carter
- Kapuskasing Inn (1927)[24]
- Sensenbrenner Hospital (1927-1929)[25]
- Vaughan Road High School - later as Vaughan Road Academy (1927)[26]
- East York High School - now East York Collegiate Institute (1927 - façade remains after 1986)[27]
- R.H. McGregor Public School - now R.H. McGregor ES (1928 - demolished)[28]
- Newmarket High School (1928)[29]
- Bowmanville High School (1929)[30]
- Daisy Avenue Public School - now Vincent Massey Public School (1929)[31]
- Brockville Collegiate Institute (1929-30)[32]
- Long Branch Public School - now James S. Bell Junior Middle School (1930-31)[33]
- Kapuskasing High School - now Kapuskasing District High School (1932)[34]
Allward and Gouinlock projects
- 1932 - Eaton Hall, King City[35]
- 1949 - East and West Memorial Buildings, Ottawa
- 1959 - David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute, Scarborough (Lawrence Avenue East)
- 1961 - Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute, Scarborough
- 1961 - R.H. King Collegiate Institute, Scarborough - western addition
- 1962 - York University Field House, Toronto[35]
- Humberview Public School, Toronto[35]
- 1965 - Sir Wilfrid Laurier Collegiate Institute, Scarborough[36]
- 1966 - West Humber Collegiate Institute, Etobicoke
- 1965-1968 - McLaughlin Planetarium, Toronto
- Memorial Buildings, Ottawa
- David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute
- Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier Collegiate Institute
- West Humber Collegiate Institute
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External links
Media related to George Wallace Gouinlock at Wikimedia Commons
- Archival papers of Allward & Gouinlock Architects Inc. (son George Roper Gouinlock's firm) held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services