WAITE, Richard Alfred (1848-1911)
(biography in preparation)
R.A. WAITE (works in Toronto)
WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY, Wellington Street East at Scott Street, 1878-80; demol. (Mail [Toronto], 30 Sept. 1878, 3; 27 Feb. 1880, 2, descrip.; Globe [Toronto], 27 Nov. 1880, 7, descrip.)
THE MAIL BUILDING, for the Toronto Daily Mail, King Street West at Bay Street, 1879-1881; burned 1884 and rebuilt by William Storm; demol. 1938 (Queen City Daily [Buffalo, N.Y.], 4 Sept. 1879, 1, descrip.; The Mail [Toronto], 2 July 1881, 1-2, descrip. & illus.; 25 Jan 1882, 8, descrip.; W. Dendy, Lost Toronto, 1993, 118-19, illus.; dwgs. at OA, Horwood Coll., 638 A)
RIORDAN FURNITURE STORE, for John Riordan Cabinet Co., King Street East near Yonge Street, 1881; demol. (Toronto World, 1 Sept. 1881, 4)
JONES BROTHERS BLOCK, Front Street West near Bay Street, 1882, demol. (Mail [Toronto], 4 April 1882, 8, descrip.)
DOMINION BANK, Yonge Street at Melinda Street, major addition, 1883; demol. c. 1910 (Toronto Daily Mail, 18 Aug. 1883, 12, descrip.)
PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, Queen's Park, 1886-92 (Globe [Toronto], 13 Aug. 1886, 5, illus. & descrip.; and 11 March 1893, 11, descrip.; and Toronto World, 18 Oct. 1890, 1, descrip.; and Brantford Expositor, 4 April 1893, 1 & 3, detailed architectural descrip.; Victoria Daily Times, 10 April 1893, 3, detailed architectural descrip.; and The Architect & Contract Reporter [London], xlix, 12 May 1893, 307, descrip.; dwgs. at OA, RG 15-13-2; RG22, Acc. 19459; F. Yeigh, Ontario's Parliament Buildings 1792-1892, 1893, 107-16, illus. & descrip.; E. Arthur, From Front Street to Queen's Park, 1979, 56-63, illus.; W. Dendy and W. Kilbourn, Toronto Observed, 1986, 134-6, illus. & descrip.)
CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, King Street West near Bay Street, 1887-88; demol. c. 1940 (Toronto World, 26 April 1887, 1, descrip.; C.A.B., i, Jan. 1888, illus.; Globe [Toronto], 31 Jan. 1891, 1-3, illus. & descrip.)
BUNTIN REID & CO., Wellington Street West near Bay Street, warehouse, 1889; burned 1904 (The Globe [Toronto], 12 April 1889, 5, descrip.; Toronto World, 13 April 1889, 4, descrip.)
CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE, King Street West at Jordan Street, 1889-90; demol. 1928 (Toronto World, 18 Jan. 1890, 1, illus. & descrip.; Monetary Times [Toronto], xxiii, 24 Jan. 1890, 903; 6 June 1890, 1502, illus.; W. Dendy, Lost Toronto, 1978, 94-5, illus. & descrip.)
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, Wellington Street East near Yonge Street, 1891; demol. (C.R., ii, 1 Aug. 1891, 2)
YONGE STREET, new theatre on the site of the existing Bijou Theatre, for M.S. Robinson, 1897 (Ottawa Citizen, 15 Jan. 1897, 1, descrip.; C.R., vii, 21 Jan. 1897, 2)
R.A. WAITE (works elsewhere in Canada)
HAMILTON, ONT., Canada Life Assurance Company, King Street East at James Street South, 1880-82; demol. (Spectator [Hamilton], 7 July 1880, 4, descrip. 25 Jan. 1883, 4 and 26 Jan. 1883, 4, descrip.; Gazette [Montreal], 16 July 1884, 5, extensive descrip.)
HAMILTON, ONT., Clubhouse for the Hamilton Club, Main Street East at James Street South, a commission won in a competition, 1882 (Spectator [Hamilton], 13 May 1882, 1, t.c.; Mark Osbaldeston, Unbuilt Hamilton, 2016, 101-04, illus. & descrip.)
MONTREAL, QUE., Standard Life Assurance Company, Great St. James Street, near John Street, an 4 storey office block, 1883-85; alterations 1897 by A.F. Dunlop; interior alterations by MacVicar & Heriot, 1912; building burned in 1922 and demol. (Evening Star [Montreal], 23 Feb. 1883, 3, descrip.; and 2 May 1883, 4, descrip.; and 25 April 1885, 5, detailed architectural descrip.; Gazette [Montreal], 23 Feb. 1883, 3, descrip.; 2 May 1885, 3, descrip.; American Architect & Building News [New York], xxii, 5 Nov. 1887, illus.; inf. Scott Edwards). A full page engraved elevation of this building, together with a history of the company, appears in the publication called Dominion Illustrated: Special Number Devoted to Montreal, 1891, 141-42.
HAMILTON, ONT., Bank of Hamilton Head Office Building, King Street West at James Street South, 1890-91; demol. (Globe [Toronto], 5 May 1890, 8, descrip.; and 21 May 1890, 7, t.c.; Toronto Daily Mail, 24 June 1892, 6, illus. & descrip.)
MONTREAL, QUE., Canada Life Assurance Building, St. James Street at St. Peter Street, 1894-96 ( Evening Times [Hamilton], 16 Feb. 1894, 8, descrip., inf. Robert Hamilton; C.A.B., vii, March 1894, 42; and x, Feb. 1897, 36; Gazette [Montreal], 25 April 1894, 6, descrip.; and 23 May 1895, 6, extensive descrip.; and 17 April 1896, 6, extensive descrip.; Montreal, Les Hotels Les Immeubles de Bureaux, 1983, 19-21, illus.)
PORT MAITLAND, ONT., Red Jacket Inn, on Lake Erie, 1897 (Daily Advertiser [London], 24 Sept. 1897, 5)
FORT ERIE, ONT., Fort Erie Jockey Club, a grandstand, clubhouse, stables, judge's stand, paddock, band stand, and other buildings at the Exhibition Grounds, 1896-97 (Gazette [Montreal], 24 Oct. 1896, 8, descrip.; Globe [Toronto], 12 Nov. 1896, 10; Evening Record [Windsor], 13 Feb. 1897, 4, descrip.; C.R., viii, 4 March 1897, 1)
MONTREAL, QUE., Grand Trunk Railway Building, McGill Street at William Street, 1898-1902 (Railway & Shipping World, i, Aug. 1898, 154-55, descrip; and ii, Jan. 1899, 9, illus.; Globe [Toronto], 4 Nov. 1898, 5, descrip.; Gazette [Montreal], 20 Dec. 1898, 2, illus. & descrip.; and 3 June 1902, 5, descrip.; Montreal Daily Star, 5 Aug. 1898, 6; and 19 Dec. 1898, 8, illus. & detailed architectural descrip.; and 10 Feb. 1899, 7, and 16 Jan. 1901, 8, descrip.; Montreal, Les Hotels Les Immeubles de Bureaux, 1983, 235-7, illus.)
MONTREAL, QUE., Canadian Bank of Commerce, interior finishing and decoration of the banking hall, 1898 (Gazette [Montreal], 7 Oct. 1898, 3, detailed descrip.)
MONTREAL, QUE., residence for James R. Wilson, Sherbrooke Street West near Drummond Street (reconstruction of the house originally designed by John J. Browne, built in 1881), 1900-01 (C.R., xi, 21 March 1900, 3; Montreal, Les Residences, 1987, 159, illus.; F. Remillard & B. Merrett, Mansions of the Golden Square Mile, Montreal, 1987, 168-71, illus.)
MONTREAL, QUE., grain elevators for the Connors Syndicate, 1899-1900 (Perth Courier [Perth, Ont.], 22 Dec. 1899, 2, descrip.; Gazette [Montreal], 4 Jan. 1900, 5, descrip.)
MONTREAL, QUE., The Electric Fireproofing Co. of Canada, at Cote St. Paul, large factory, 1900-01 (Montreal Daily Star, 4 Oct. 1901, 6)
MONTREAL, QUE., grain elevator for the Grand Trunk Railway at Windmill Point, 1901-02 (Montreal Daily Star, 4 Oct. 1901, 6, descrip.; C.R., xii, 9 Oct. 1901, 3)
R,A. WAITE (works in New York State)
BUFFALO, N.Y., Music Hall, for the German Young Men's Association, 1885 (Toronto Daily Mail, 15 July 1885, 4, descrip.)