Borter, Charles Martin

BORTER, Charles Martin (1872-1925), born in Watervliet, N.Y. on 29 June 1872, moved to Niagara Falls, Ont. in 1905. He opened an office there in 1908 and specialized in designing school buildings, many of which still stand throughout the Niagara Peninsula. In 1913 he was one of sixteen architects who submitted plans in the competition for the new Public School at Welland (Welland Tribune, 11 Dec. 1913, Second Section, 1). His entry was passed over in favour of the winning design by A.E. Nicholson. Borter died in Niagara Falls on 14 April 1925 (obit. Niagara Falls Review, 15 April 1925, 4). One of his students was Norman Mann.

C.M. BORTER (works in Niagara Falls)

NORTH END PUBLIC SCHOOL, 1908 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 27 April 1908, 5)
FRONTIER AMUSEMENT PARK, a 70 ft. high Electric Tower at the Park, River Road, 1908; demol. (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 1 May 1908, 5, but erroneously credited to "C.M. Porter" [sic], architect)
CARNEGIE LIBRARY, Victoria Avenue at Armoury Street, 1909; still standing in 2022 (C.R., xxiii, 9 June 1909, 22)
NIAGARA FALLS COLLEGIATE, addition of a new assembly and convention hall, 1910 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 23 April 1910, 4)
FIRE HALL, Main Street, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 31 Aug. 1910, 24)
MARLAND WOOLNOUGH CO., Victoria Avenue near Magdalen Street, warehouse, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 28 Sept. 1910, 27, t.c.)
CITY HALL, Queen Street at Erie Avenue, major addition, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 12 July 1911, 59)
NIAGARA FALLS HOCKEY & ATHLETIC CLUB, Victoria Avenue, hockey arena, 1911-12 (C.R., xxv, 13 Dec. 1911, 118, t.c.)
QUEEN STREET FURNITURE LTD., store for George Badger, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 27 March 1912, 69, t.c.)
SANITARY PACKING CO. LTD, River Road, factory, "....adjoining the railroad line", 1912, and Foreman's Residence, 1912-13 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 4 May 1912, 11, but erroneously credited to "Charles Bolton [sic], architect of Niagara Falls"), and The Times [Niagara-on-the-Lake], 3 May 1912, 8; and 31 Jan. 1913, 8)
ROYAL BANK, 1916 (dwgs. Royal Bank Archives, Montreal)
NIAGARA FALLS TECHNICAL SCHOOL, Second Avenue, 1919 (C.R., xxxiii, 25 June 1919, 136)
NIAGARA WIRE WEAVING CO., Robinson Street, factory, 1919 (C.R., xxxiii, 17 Sept. 1919, 49)
WEB THEATRE, Main Street, a movie theatre for Drummond Realty Co., 1922 (C.R., xxxvi, 11 Jan. 1922, 51)
MURRAY STREET, at Main Street, transformer station for Hydro Electric System, 1922 (C.R., xxxvi, 26 April 1922, 58)
MASONIC TEMPLE, Second Avenue near Stamford Street, extensive alterations and addition, 1924 (C.R., xxxviii, 25 June 1924, 56)

C.M. BORTER (works elsewhere)

FORT ERIE, ONT., Douglas Public School, Stanton Street, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 9 March 1909, 20; dwgs. Niagara Falls South Board of Education)
STAMFORD TOWNSHIP, ONT., public school for S.S. No. 4, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 17 March 1909, 20, t.c.)
GRIMSBY, ONT., public school for S.S. No. 1, North Grimsby Township, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 21 July 1909, 22)
FENWICK, ONT., public school, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 8 Sept. 1909, 20, t.c.)
STAMFORD TOWNSHIP, Ont., large residence for George Horne, to be built on his farm, 1910 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 20 April 1910, 2)
CHIPPAWA, ONT., public school, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 22 Feb. 1911, 29)
ST. DAVID'S, ONT., public school, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 14 Feb. 1912, 63; Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 28 March 1912, 7, t.c.)
THOROLD, ONT. public school, 1912, but erroneously credited to "...architect Porter [sic] of Niagara Falls" (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 13 March 1912, 8)
VIRGIL, ONT., public school for S.S. No. 5, Niagara Township, 1912 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 2 May 1912, 4, descrip.)
PORT COLBORNE, ONT., St. James Anglican Church, Charlotte Street at King Street, 1916-17, rebuilding of the church destroyed by fire in November 1915 (C.R., xxx, 29 March 1916, 50, t.c.; inf. Scott Edwards)
PORT COLBORNE, ONT., continuation school, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 17 March 1920, 59)
STAMFORD TOWNSHIP, major addition to Falls View Consolidated School, 1922 (C.R., xxxvi, 14 June 1922, 54, t.c.)
BRIDGEBURG (now called FORT ERIE), ONT., Town Hall, Jarvis Street, 1922-23 (Brantford Expositor, 5 May 1922, 3; Owen Sound Sun-Times 13 May 1922, Second Section, p. 2; Parks Canada, Town Halls of Canada, 1987, 285)