BUSCH, Walter Johannes (1865-1924), son of Henry F. Busch, trained under his father and worked as an assistant in his office for more than fifteen years. After the death of his father in January 1902 Walter carried on the practice, specializing in the design of educational buildings for both the public and separate school boards in Halifax. He may also be credited with schemes for several ecclestiastical works in the region, but his designs are often unprepossessing and bleak, and contained few of the refinements found in similar works erected in Quebec and Ontario before WWI. Busch died in Halifax on 14 July 1924 (obit. and port. Evening Mail [Halifax], 15 July 1924, 5; Acadian Recorder [Halifax], 15 July 1924, 3; biog. M. Rosinski, Architects of Nova Scotia: A Biographical Dictionary, 1994, 192-3). The Public Archives of Nova Scotia holds several sets of drawings by W.J. Busch for institutional and ecclesiastical projects.
(works in Halifax)
ST. JOSEPH'S PUBLIC SCHOOL, Kaye Street, 1904 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 7 May 1904, 6, t.c.; dwgs. at PANS)
ST. MARK'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Russell Street, parish hall and Sunday School, 1905 (Canadian Churchman [Toronto], 2 March 1905, 134, descrip.)
ST. PATRICK'S GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, Brunswick Street, 1906 (dwgs. at PANS)
ALBRO STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, major alterations and remodelling of the school, 1907 (dwgs. at PANS)
COBURG ROAD, near Walnut Street, residence for James Coolen, 1907 (inf. PANS)
CHEBUCTO PUBLIC SCHOOL, Chebucto Road, 1908-09, a commission won in a competition (Evening Mail [Halifax], 3 April 1908, 1 & 2; Const., ii, Dec. 1908, 67; dwgs. at PANS)
OXFORD STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, a commission won in a competition, 1908 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 1 May 1908, 1; Report of the Board of School Commissioners for Halifax, 1908, 11)
NORTH STREET, at Gottingen Street, residence for Nathaniel Evans, 1909 (inf. PANS)
ROBIE STREET, near Jubilee Street, residence for William W. Hoyt, 1910 (inf. PANS)
TOWER ROAD PUBLIC SCHOOL, Tower Road, a commission won in a competition, 1911 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 15 March 1911, 1 & 6; C.R., xxv, 19 July 1911, 59, t.c.; dwgs. at PANS)
MAYFLOWER CURLING CLUB, Agricola Street, near North Street, a new indoor clubhouse and ice rinks, 1910-11; destroyed in Halifax Explosion, 1917; rebuilt by Busch in 1918 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 8 Nov. 1910, 12, descrip.; and 23 Aug. 1911, 6, illus. & descrip.; and 10 Jan. 1918, 9)
ST. GEORGE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH (The Round Church), Cornwallis Street, new entrance and lobby, 1914 (dwgs. PANS)
BLOOMFIELD HIGH SCHOOL, Bloomfield Street, 1913-14 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 4 March 1913, 1; dwgs. at PANS)
CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION (Lutheran), Windsor Street at Allen Street, 1915-16 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 13 Nov. 1913, 6; and 11 Sept. 1915, 2, t.c.; dwgs. at PANS)
MORRIS STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, 1916 (C.R., xxx, 21 June 1916, 44)
ALEX MacKAY PUBLIC SCHOOL, Russell Street at Gottingen Street, 1916 (Minutes of the Board of School Commissioners for Halifax, 6 July 1916, 113)
ST. JOSEPH'S ROMAN CATHOLIC BOY'S SCHOOL, Gottingen Street, 1916 (dwgs. at PANS)
ST. JOHN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Windsor Street at Willow Street, designed 1917; rebuilt 1920-21 after the Halifax Explosion (C.R., xxxi, 14 March 1917, 68; Evening Mail [Halifax], 8 May 1920, 22; and 27 July 1920, 3, descrip.; and 9 April 1921, 17, descrip.; Halifax Herald, 28 July 1920, 9; dwgs. at PANS)
TUFT'S COVE, public school, for School Section No. 82, 1918 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 8 Aug. 1918, 16, t.c.)
ROSEBANK AVENUE, residence for A. Newman, 1919 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 9 July 1919, 25, t.c.)
QUINPOOL ROAD, near Harvard Street, store and dwelling for Alfred R. Cook, 1919 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 12 July 1919, 7, t.c.; inf. PANS)
PROVINCIAL BUILDING, Annex No. 3, Hollis Street, 1919 (Journals of Assembly for Nova Scotia, 1920)
ST. MARK'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Gottingen Street at Russell Street, 1920 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 14 April 1920, 13, detailed descrip.; and 19 July 1920, 10, descrip.; dwgs. at PANS)
LORNE AMATEUR AQUATIC CLUB, at the foot of Russell Street, new clubhouse, 1921-22 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 20 April 1922, 9, illus. & detailed descrip.)
ROYAL NOVA SCOTIA YACHT SQUADRON, club house at Point Pleasant Park, 1922 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 8 April 1922, 2, t.c.; inf. PANS)