Mather, James

MATHER, James (1833-1927)
(biography in preparation)

OTTAWA

PROVINCIAL EXHIBITION BUILDINGS, for the Agricultural Society, Lansdowne Park, including the Crystal Palace, Horticultural Hall, Machinery Hall, and Poultry & Cattle Buildings, 1875 (Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 23 Nov. 1874, 4, descrip.; Free Press [Ottawa], 10 April 1875, 4, descrip.; Canadian Patent Office Record and Mechanics Magazine, iii, Oct. 1875, 296, illus.; Nov. 1875, 321-22, descrip.)
WILBROD STREET, opposite the Gaol, four houses for Huckell & Cleverly, 1875 (Free Press [Ottawa], 30 March 1875, 2, t.c.)
NEPEAN TOWNSHIP, School, Concession B, Rideau Front, 1875 (Free Press [Ottawa], 12 July 1875, 2, t.c.)
NEPEAN TOWNSHIP, School for S.S. 16, 1875 (Free Press [Ottawa], 21 Aug. 1875, 2, t.c.)
VICTORIA WARD SCHOOL, Richmond Road, 1875 (Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 6 Dec. 1875, 4, descrip.)
ST. GEORGE'S WARD SCHOOL, Besserer Street at Theodore Street, 1875 (Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 6 Dec. 1875, 4, descrip.)
BY WARD MARKET BUILDING, George Street at William Street, 1874-75 (Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 6 Dec. 1875, 4, descrip.; Free Press [Ottawa], 15 April 1876, 4, descrip.)
WELLINGTON WARD MARKET BUILDING, Sparks Street at Lyon Street, 1875 (Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 6 Dec. 1875, 4, descrip.; Free Press [Ottawa], 15 April 1876, 4, descrip.)
RIDEAU CLUB HOUSE, Wellington Street at Metcalfe Street, 1875 (Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 6 Dec. 1875, 4, descrip.; 10 Feb. 1876, 4, descrip.)
WELLINGTON STREET, commercial block for MacLeod Stewart 'adjacent to the Rideau Club', 1875 (Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 6 Dec. 1875, 4, descrip.)
DALY AVENUE, at King Street, residence for Benjamin Batson, 1875-76 (Daily Citizen [Ottawa] 6 Dec. 1875, 4, descrip.; Free Press [Ottawa], 22 Nov. 1876, 4)
(attributed) LAURIER AVENUE EAST, residence for John Mather, 1876; altered 1928 (Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin, xv, Dec. 1990, 103-04, illus.)
GEORGE STREET, at William Street, commercial building for Thomas Coffey, opposite the By Ward Market, 1876 (Free Press [Ottawa], 26 Jan. 1876, 2, t.c.)
BOLTON STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL, addition, 1876 (Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 22 April 1876, 1, t.c.)
METROPOLITAN BUILDING SOCIETY, Wellington Street 'beside the Banque Nationale', 1876 (Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 28 June 1876, 1, t.c.)
WELLINGTON WARD SCHOOL, Maria Street, 1876 (Free Press [Ottawa], 23 Aug. 1876, 2, t.c.)
DUFFERIN PRIMARY SCHOOL, Anglesea Square, 1877 (Free Press [Ottawa], 6 July 1877, 4)
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Elgin Street at Laurier Avenue, 1877-78 (Free Press [Ottawa], 25 July 1877, 4, descrip.; Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 4 March 1878, 1, descrip.; Canadian Illustrated News, xviii, 9 Nov. 1878, 290-91, 300, illus. & descrip.)
LAURIER AVENUE EAST, at Chapel Street, residence for John Leslie, 1878; later occupied by Sir Wilfrid Laurier (list of works in obituary, Journal [Ottawa], 4 Oct. 1927, 2; Society for the Study of Architecture In Canada Bulletin, xv, Dec. 1990, 104, illus.)
SPARKS STREET, commercial block for Herbert H. Brennan and S.&H. Borbridge, 1878 (Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 18 Oct. 1878, 2, t.c.)
GRAND UNION HOTEL, Elgin Street at Queen Street, 1880-82 (Free Press [Ottawa], 28 July 1880, 4, descrip.; 1 Feb. 1882, 4, descrip.)
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, O'Connor Street at Queen Street, 1888; swimming pool, 1897 (Ottawa Journal, 8 Feb. 1888, 4; Globe [Toronto], 17 Jan. 1891, 2, illus.; C.R., viii, 19 Aug. 1897, 2)
BRITISH AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO., Wellington Street, for G.B. Burland, 1888 (Journal [Ottawa], 8 Feb. 1888, 4)
ALBERT STREET, at O'Connor Street, two stores and dwelling for Hamlet Allan, 1891 (Ottawa Free Press, 11 March 1891, 2)
OTTAWA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, Lisgar Street, addition, 1892; reconstruction after fire, 1893, additions 1902-03 (C.R., iv, 23 March 1893, 1; Ottawa Free Press, 3 Nov. 1893, 5, descrip.; A History of the Ottawa Collegiate Institute 1843-1903, 15-6)
PROTESTANT HOME FOR THE AGED, Bank Street at Centre Street, addition, 1895 (C.R., vi, 30 May 1895, 2, t.c.)
RIDEAU STREET, commercial building for Robert B. Whyte, of J.G. Whyte & Son, 1901 (C.R., xii, 1 May 1901, 3)
(with Howard C. Stone) WOODS BUILDING, Queen Street, for James W. Woods, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 22 Oct. 1902, 3)
(with Howard C. Stone) ROXBOROUGH APARTMENT HOUSE, Cartier Square, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 4 May 1910, 40-1, illus. & descrip.)
DALHOUSIE STREET, at Murray Street, stores and apartments for M. Drazin, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 27 July 1910, 26)
ROCKCLIFFE PARK, residence for Admiral Charles E. Kingsmill, Acacia Avenue, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 24 Aug. 1910, 25)
SLINN-SHOULDIS BAKERY, Catherine Street at Bronson Avenue, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 28 June 1911, 59)
ROBINSON BUILDING, for Hiram Robinson, Queen Street through to Sparks Street, 1911-12 (C.R., xxv, 4 Oct. 1911, 61)
STEPHEN BUILDING, Queen Street near Bank Street, stores and offices for R.W. Stephens, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 19 Nov. 1913, 69)
MARLBOROUGH AVENUE, residence for Col. Eugene Fiset, c. 1913 (Ottawa Journal, 20 Sept. 1913, 17, illus.)

ELSEWHERE

HULL, QUE., Market Hall, 1877; burned 1900 (Free Press [Ottawa], 3 Jan. 1877, 4, descrip.)
NEPEAN TOWNSHIP HALL, Richmond Road, 1878 (Free Press [Ottawa], 30 Sept. 1878, 4)
MATTAWA, ONT., commercial block with Masonic Lodge Room, 1891 (C.R., ii, 4 July 1891, 2)
BUCKINGHAM, QUE., residence for A. MacLaren, 1895 (C.R., vi, 14 Feb. 1895)
ARNPRIOR, ONT., additions and improvements to Public School, 1896 (C.R., vii, 14 May 1896, 2)
HULL, QUE., Bank of Ottawa, 1900 (C.R., xi, 11 July 1900, 3)
PARRY SOUND, ONT., Bank of Ottawa, James Street, c. 1904 (dwgs. at Bank of Nova Scotia Archives, Toronto)