ADAMS, Homer Austin (1882 -1960) was born in Montreal, Que. on 9 October 1882. His application for membership in the Province of Quebec Association of Architects submitted on 2 May 1912 noted that he had trained in the atelier of Donn Barber, a leading architect in New York City, and that he possessed '.....eleven years experience with Alexander F. Dunlop, Edward & William S. Maxwell [all of Montreal] and with Ernest Flagg' (ANQM, Files of the P.Q.A.A., 1912). Adams is listed in Montreal directories as an architect from 1912 until after 1950, but the only published references that can be found to his work are those for the Chalet Apartments (1911), executed in an eclectic 'Swiss Chalet character', and for the Adams Apartments, Doctor Penfield Avenue (1926); and later called McGregor Apartments. This six storey block, executed in collaboration with Atwell J. King, employed a domestic Mission style aesthetic with tile roofs and banded stone trim, and is unique in the varied range of early 20th century residential architecture in the Montreal area. Adams later died in Westmount, Que. on 28 August 1960 (death notice Gazette [Montreal], 30 Aug. 1960, 29).
(works in Montreal, Que.)
CHALET APARTMENTS, Prince Arthur Street at Oxenden Avenue, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 21 June 1911, 49, descrip.)
ADAMS APARTMENTS, Atwater Street at McGregor Street, 1926-27 (Gazette [Montreal], 9 Sept. 1926, 4, descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, vi, April 1929, page xix, illus. in advert.; Montreal, Les Appartements, 1991, 156-60, illus.)