OGILVY, David (1866-1934), son of James Angus Ogilvy, a wealthy and successful department store merchant in Montreal, attended McGill University and graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1884. He worked in the office of Hutchison & Steele in Montreal, then moved to Omaha, Nebraska where he practised in partnership with John McDonald in the firm of Ogilvy & McDonald from 1886 until 1890. He relocated in Portland, Oregon and worked there until 1894 before returning to Montreal to open an architectural office, at first with his brother Robert F. Ogilvy, and then under his own name. His first important architectural project was completed for his father who commissioned him to prepare a design for the new Ogilvy's Department Store on Ste. Catherine Street West (1894-96). This family connection later led his father to once again ask his son to oversee the construction of a much larger headquarters for the store in 1909 located directly across the street from the original building. Ogilvy was briefly in partnership with Charles A. Mitchell in 1910 (see list of works under Mitchell & Ogilvy). He continued to practise in Montreal until 1914 but no information on his work has been found after this date; he may have suffered from a lingering mental illness which necessitated treatment at the Homewood Sanatorium in Guelph, Ont., a private clinic for patients with psychiatric disorders. He died there on 24 January 1934 (death notice Gazette [Montreal], 31 January 1934, 7; biog. Harvey K. Hines, Illustrated History of the State of Oregon, 1893, 608-09; inf. from American Inst. of Architects, Wash., Box 16, S 15, Application for Membership dated 4 Nov. 1898; biog. in Richard E. Ritz, Architects of Oregon, 2002, 301)
(McDONALD & OGILVY (works in Nebraska)
OMAHA, NEB., a large warehouse for Edwards & Crome, Eleventh Street at Nicholas Street, 1889 (Omaha Daily Bee, 17 Feb. 1889, 2)
OMAHA, NEB., a retail store for John Ercks, Sixteenth Street at Webster Street, 1889 (Omaha Daily Bee, 17 Feb. 1889, 2)
OMAHA, NEB., residence for Herman E. Cochrane, 1890 (Omaha Daily Bee, 21 Oct. 1890, 8)
DAVID OGILVY (works in Oregon and Washington State)
PORT ANGELES, WASH., The Hotel Angeles, for Capt. James S. Coolican, 1892 (The Stone [Indianapolis], iv, March 1892, 465)
PORTLAND, ORE., residence for James Havely, SE 40th Avenue at SE Harold Street, 1893 (Historic Resource Inventory of Portland; inf. Prof. James R. Goodman, Portland)
DAVID OGILVY (works in Montreal unless noted)
JAMES A. OGILVY & SONS, northeast corner of Ste. Catherine Street West at Mountain Street, a large department store, 1894-96 (C.R., v, 8 Feb. 1894, 2; Gazette [Montreal], 13 May 1895, 2, descrip.; Montreal Daily Star, 5 Sept. 1896, 14, detailed architectural descrip.; C.A.B., x, Feb. 1897, 36; Montreal, Les Magasins Les Cinemas, 1985, 210-12, illus.; F. Remillard & B. Merrett, Montreal Architecture, 1990, 150, illus.)
STE. CATHERINE STREET WEST, near Mountain Street, residence for an unidentified client, 1896-97 (C.R., vii, 3 Dec. 1896, 3)
DRUMMOND STREET, residence for John D. Duncan, 1897 (C.R., viii, 3 June 1897, 4; and 28 Oct. 1897, 3)
STE. CATHERINE STREET WEST, near Mountain Street, a three storey commercial block for Alexander Scott, 1896-97 (Gazette [Montreal], 20 Nov. 1896, 5, descrip.; C.R., vii, 28 Jan. 1897, 3)
WESTERN LOAN & TRUST CO., St. Sacrament Street, a complete reconstruction of the former Montreal Stock Exchange Building with addition of two floors, 1898 (Gazette [Montreal], 28 Jan. 1898, 3, descrip.; Montreal Daily Star, 21 July 1898, 6, descrip.)
STE. CATHERINE STREET WEST, a theatre for an unidentified client, 1898 (C.R., ix, 3 Feb. 1898, 3)
GUARANTEED PURE MILK CO., Ste. Catherine Street West near St. Mark Street, warehouse, 1900 (Le Prix Courant, xxix, 6 July 1900, 82)
STE. AGATHE LAKE, QUE., rebuilding of the Castle des Monts Hotel, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 15 Oct. 1902, 2)
JAMES A. OGILVY & SONS, northwest corner of Ste. Catherine Street West at Mountain Street, a 6 storey department store, 1909-11 (C.R., xxiii, 7 July 1909, 22-3; Montreal Star, 4 Dec. 1909, 12, illus. & descrip.; and 25 March 1912, 10, illus. & descrip.; Const., v, Dec. 1912, 23, illus. in advert.; Montreal, Les Magasins Les Cinemas, 1985, 213-15, illus.)