SHEARD, Matthew (1840-1910), son of the leading Toronto architect Joseph Sheard, and active in the following offices:
Horsey & Sheard, Chicago, Ill., 1871-72 (with Henry H. Horsey)
Horsey & Sheard, Ottawa, Ont. 1874-1877 (with Henry H. Horsey)
Matthew Sheard, Toronto, Ont. 1878-1904
(biography in preparation)
(works in Toronto unless noted)
TELEGRAM BUILDING, King Street West at Bay Street, 1878-79; printing plant, 1897; all demol. (Globe [Toronto], 15 June 1878, 5. t.c.; C.A.B., xi, Feb. 1898, 27)
WOODSTOCK, ONT., Central School, Hunter Street, 1879-80 (Stratford Beacon, 27 Sept. 1878, 2; Daily Advertiser [London], 6 July 1880, 2, descrip.)
LISTOWEL, ONT., High School, 1879-80 (Listowel Banner, 21 Feb. 1879, 8)
NEWCOMBE PIANO CO., Church Street at Richmond Street East, store and offices, 1879 (Globe [Toronto], 19 April 1879, 7, t.c.)
NORTH GOWER, ONT., Trinity Anglican Church, 1880 (Dominion Churchman, 29 April 1880, 210, descrip.)
LAMBTON MILLS, ONT., Masonic Hall, 1880 (Globe [Toronto], 8 Oct. 1880, 7, t.c.)
KING STREET WEST, near Yonge Street, commercial block for Willing & Williamson, 1880 (Globe [Toronto], 27 Nov. 1880, 7, descrip.)
OTTAWA, ONT., Russell House Hotel, Sparks Street at Elgin Street, a complete rebuilding of the earlier hotel buildings on the property, 1880-82 (Free Press [Ottawa], 25 Jan. 1882, 4, descrip.; Gazette [Montreal], 5 Feb. 1880, 3; 6 Feb. 1882, 2, descrip.)
JARVIS STREET, at Carleton Street, row of four houses, c. 1882 (dwgs. at OA, Horwood Coll. 628a)
PARLIAMENT STREET, north of Carleton Street, pair of houses for Mrs. Catherine O'Malley and P. Coulin, 1883 (Toronto b.p. 255, 21 April 1883)
BELLEVILLE, ONT., City Hospital & Home for the Aged, 1885-86 (Annual Report of the Women's Christian Association for 1883-84; inf. Mrs. Lois Foster, Belleville)
ONTARIO COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, Gerrard Street East near Church Street, 1885; laboratory 1891; major addition and new facade by Page & Steele, 1940; altered and restored 2016-18, and now called The Centre for Urban Innovation at Ryerson University (Toronto Daily Mail, 26 June 1885, 8, descrip.; C.R., i, 7 Feb. 1891, 2; Toronto Daily Mail, 4 Feb. 1892, 6; Building [Toronto], lxix, October/November 2019, 41-43, illus. & descrip.)
HERR & CO. PIANOS, The Esplanade near Jarvis Street, factory, 1887 (Toronto World, 9 July 1887, 2)
CHURCH STREET, at Shuter Street, residence for Dr. L.M. Sweatman, 1888 (Telegram [Toronto], 19 May 1888, 3, t.c.)
McGILL STREET, near Yonge Street, row of three houses, 1893 (C.R., iv, 4 May 1893, 2, t.c.)
(with Charles H. Wheeler, local supervising architect) WINNIPEG, MAN., Bank of Ottawa, Main Street near Portage Avenue, 1893-94; demol. (C.R., iv, iv, 13 July 1893, 2; Evening Journal [Ottawa], 15 May 1894, 7, descrip.; Winnipeg Tribune, 22 Aug. 1894, 5, descrip.)
OTTAWA, ONT., residence for Charles Magee, Lisgar Street at Cartier Street, 1895 (Globe [Toronto], 5 July 1895, 4)
PHILIP JAMIESON DEPARTMENT STORE, interiors for a large indoor barber shop for men and young men within the existing department store, 1904 (Toronto Daily Star, 18 June 1904, 23, descrip.)
COMPETITIONS
ST. THOMAS, ONT., Grand Central Hotel, 1881. Sheard was one of several architects who submitted a design for this large hotel block, and he was awarded Second Prize of $30 for his effort (Globe [Toronto], 18 Nov. 1881, 8). The winner was the Toronto firm of James, Mallory & Mallory.