Wells, John
WELLS, John (1789-1864)
(biography in preparation)
JOHN WELLS
(works in Montreal unless noted)
COMMON GAOL, for the District of Montreal, Notre Dame Street East at De Lorimier Avenue, 1831-32 (Gazette [Montreal], 19 Feb. 1831, 2, t.c.; 3 Dec. 1831, 3, t.c.; Montreal, Les Edifices Publics, 1981, 244-47, illus.)
LACHINE, QUE., St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, St. Joseph Street, 1832 (H. Bergevin, Eglises Protestants, 1981, 81, illus.; Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 158-61, illus.)
WELLS & THOMPSON
ST. JAMES STREET, three houses for John Molson Jr., 1832 (Gazette [Montreal], 29 March 1832, 2, t.c.)
ST. ANNE’S MARKET, Place Youville, between Grey Nun’s Street and Commissioners Street, 1832-34; burned 1849 (Gazette [Montreal], 2 April 1832, 2, descrip.; 14 Aug. 1832, 3, t.c.; 1 July 1834, 1, descrip.; dwgs. at ANQM, CD2/142)
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, alterations and improvements, 1832 (Gazette [Montreal], 26 April 1832, 3, t.c.; 10 July 1832, 2, descrip.)
KINGSTON, ONT., General Hospital, Stuart Street, 1833-35 (T. Gibson, A Short Account of the Early History of the Kingston General Hospital, 1935, 5; M. Angus, Old Stones of Kingston, 1966, 76-7, illus.)
JOHN WELLS
ST. JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, QUE., St. James Wesleyan Church, 1841 (H. Archambault & S. Tanguay, ‘Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu’, in Continuite, No. 50, Summer 1991, 53)
NOTRE DAME STREET, at St. Lambert Street, block for M.T. Mussen, 1841 (Montreal Transcript, 9 Dec. 1841, 2, t.c.)
SOREL, QUE., Christ Church and Rectory (Anglican), 1842-43 (Montreal Gazette, 29 Aug. 1842, 3; The Church [Cobourg], 16 June 1843, 2; H. Bergevin, Eglises Protestants, 1981, 64, illus.)
WILLIAM BRADBURY CO., Notre Dame Street, warehouse, 1842 (Montreal Transcript, 26 April 1842, 3, t.c.)
SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Gosford Street, 1843-44; demol. 1901 (Montreal Transcript, 13 June 1843, 2, t.c.; N. Bosworth, Hochelaga Depicta-Addenda, 1846, 11, illus. & descrip.; L. d’Iberville-Moreau, Lost Montreal, 1975, 158-9, illus.)
SANGUINET STREET, a chapel for an unnamed denomination, 1844 (Montreal Transcript, 1 June 1844, 2)
DE LA COMMUNE STREET WEST, warehouse for Issac Buchanan, 1844-45 (Montreal, Architecture Industrielle, 1982, 90-1, illus.)
SHERBROOKE STREET WEST, at Clark Street, residence for William C. Meredith, 1844-45 (Montreal, Les Residences, 1987, 495-98, illus.)
ZION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Radegonde Street, 1845-46; burned 1867 (Montreal Gazette, 2 June 1845, 4, illus.; N. Bosworth, Hochelaga Depicta – Addenda, 1846, 10, illus. & descrip.)
BANK OF MONTREAL, Great St. James Street, 1845-47; altered and enlarged 1901-05 by McKim, Mead & White (La Minerve [Montreal], 15 Jan. 1846, 3, illus. & descrip.; N. Bosworth, Hochelaga Depicta – Addenda, 1846, 18, descrip.; C.A.B., vi, Jan. 1893, illus.; Montreal, Les Banques, 1980, 22-7, illus.; S. Wagg, Money Matters – A Critical Look at Bank Architecture, 1990, 36-8, 98-100, illus.)
FREEMASON’S HALL, Dalhousie Square, 1846 (Montreal Transcript, 3 Oct. 1846, 2)
NOTRE DAME STREET, at St. Lambert Street, block of buildings for an unnamed client, 1846 (La Minerve [Montreal], 5 March 1846, 3, t.c.)
ST. ALEXANDER STREET, two houses for an unnamed client, 1848 (Montreal Transcript, 22 Feb. 1848, 2)
QUEBEC CITY, QUE., Bank of British North America, St. Pierre Street, 1850 (Quebec Mercury, 15 June 1850, 3, t.c.; L. Noppen et al, Quebec – Trois siecles d’architecture, 1979, 403, illus.)
ST. ANN’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, McCord Street at Basin Street, Griffintown, 1851 (Montreal Transcript, 30 Jan. 1851, 2, t.c.)
THEATRE ROYAL, Cote Street near Craig Street, 1851 (Montreal Gazette, 16 July 1851, 2, t.c.; Montreal Transcript, 24 Jan. 1852, 2)
QUEBEC CITY, QUE., Chalmers Wesley Church, Ste. Ursule Street, 1851 (L. Noppen et al, Quebec – Trois siecles d’architecture, 1979, 168, illus.; L. Noppen & M. Grignon, l’Art de l’architecte – Three Centuries of Architectural Drawing in Quebec City, 1983, 234-5, illus.)
POST OFFICE, St. James Street at St. Francois Xavier Street, 1853 (Montreal Transcript, 1 Sept. 1853, 2; Canadian Illustrated News, 25 June 1870, 529, 531, illus. & descrip.; C. DeVolpi, Montreal-A Pictorial Record, 1963, 124-5, illus.)
PRES DE VILLE PLACE, row of houses for Jacob H. Joseph, c. 1855 (NAC, MG 24, Vol. 52, part 2, testimony in the Court of Queen’s Bench, Province of Canada, Montreal, 1859)
