BALLANTYNE, Henry Francis (1871-1957) submitted the winning design in the competition for the Town Hall at Ottawa East, Ont. in 1895. Born in Ottawa on 26 March 1871 he attended the School of Practical Science at the University of Toronto and later enrolled at Columbia University in New York City where he established an office. In 1901-03 he was partner in the New York firm of Ballantyne & Evans, then worked there for the prominent American architect Egerton Swarwout from 1904 to 1907. He practised under his own name there from 1907 to 1915 and during this period completed another commission in Canada, that for MacKay Presbyterian Church, MacKay Street at Dufferin Road, Ottawa, Ont. (1909). While living in New York he contracted typhoid fever and decided to return to his home town in Canada in late 1915. He was an instructor at the Ottawa Technical School from 1919 to 1935, and remained active in the profession until the mid-1930's. After retiring he served as a director of J. & T. Ballantyne Fuels Ltd., a family-owned business in Ottawa. He later held the post of Chairman of the Ottawa Town Planning Commission. Ballantyne died in Ottawa on 28 September 1957 (obituary Ottawa Citizen, 30 Sept. 1957, 34; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects; inf. Bruce Ballantyne, Kanata, Ont.).
H.F. BALLANTYNE
OTTAWA EAST, ONT., Town Hall, 1895 (C.R., vi, 14 Feb. 1895, 2)
BALLANTYNE & EVANS
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y., five storey factory for the Estate of Hamilton Fish, north-east corner of Third Avenue at 12th Street, 1902 (City of New York, b.p. 263, 1902)
(with Tracy & Swartwout) SYRACUSE, N.Y., First Presbyterian Church, West Genesee Street, 1904 ([American] Architectural Review [Boston], xi, February 1904, 124, illus.; The Brickbuilder [Boston], xvii, Dec. 1907, 278)
H.F. BALLANTYNE
OTTAWA, ONT., MacKay Presbyterian Church, MacKay Street at Dufferin Road, 1909 (historical article in the Ottawa Journal, 16 Nov. 1935, 20, illus. & descrip.; Andrew Waldron, Exploring the Capital: An Architectural Guide to the Ottawa-Gatineau Region, 2017, 118-19, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. in the possession of Bruce Ballantyne, Kanata, Ont.)
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y., Packard Commercial School, Lexington Avenue at East 35th Street, and now part of Yeshiva University, 1910 (New York Times (New York), 4 Aug. 1910, 11, descrip.)
GOLDEN BRIDGE, Westchester County, N.Y., large residence for James Cannon, c. 1914 (orig. drwgs. in the possession of Bruce Ballantyne, Kanata, Ont.)
OTTAWA, ONT., major addition to Chalmers Presbyterian Church, O'Connor Street, 1927 (dwgs. in the possession of Bruce Ballantyne, Kanata, Ont.)