Dangerfield, Bernard

DANGERFIELD, Bernard (1891-1973) was born in London, Engl. on 26 May 1891 and graduated from the Regent Street Polytechnical School of Architecture in 1913. He articled in London with G.A. Mitchell and then worked in the offices of several prominent London architects including Sir Edwin Lutyens, Ernest George and Sir Aston Webb in 1912-14. After serving with the Royal Air Force during WWI he joined His Majesty’s Office of Works in 1919 to assist with the renovations to Westminster Hall. In 1922 he emigrated to Canada and formed a partnership in Guelph, Ont. with H. Reginald Coales (see list of works under Coales & Dangerfield). In 1925 he moved to Detroit to join Albert Kahn as staff designer responsible for much of the interior decoration of major commissions for banks, museums and theatres. Dangerfield moved to Windsor in 1928 and formed a new partnership with Douglas C. Winter, but the recession of 1930 forced Dangerfield to terminate his activity there and move to Toronto where he was employed as a staff architect by the Toronto Hydro Electric Commission, advising on the headquarters building on Carlton Street designed by Chapman & Oxley. He later joined that firm as a draftsman, and resigned from the Ontario Assoc. of Architects in June 1932 (inf. R.I.B.A., London; Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh). Dangerfield died at Eastbourne, Co. Sussex, England in March 1973.

DANGERFIELD & WINTER

(works in Windsor unless noted)

OUELLETTE AVENUE, six stores for Fred W. Martin, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 8 Aug. 1928, 64)

RIVERSIDE, ONT., hotel on the Detroit River for A. Hebert of the Riverside Brewery Co., 1928 (C.R., xlii, 12 Sept. 1928, 53)

BRITISH AMERICAN BREWING CO. LTD., Bruce Avenue at Sandwich Street West, 1928 (dwgs. at Windsor Municipal Archives, RG4, Item 29)

ALBER BUILDING, Wyandotte Street, commercial block, 1928 (OA, Horwood Coll., 139)

RIVERSIDE, ONT., Viking Yacht Club, 1929 (Canadian Hotel Review, vii, June 1929, 41)

WYANDOTTE STREET, at Ouellette Avenue, office building for F.W. Martin & Assoc., 1929 (C.R., xliii, 17 July 1929, 61)

MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, for the Border Cities Aviation League, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 4 Sept. 1929, 72)