SIMMONDS, Henry Holdsby (1893-1954)
(biography in preparation)
H.H. SIMMONDS (works in Vancouver)
PACIFIC NATIONAL EXHIBITION, East Hastings Street, dance pavilion, 1920; Grandstand and bleachers in Callister Park, opposite the P.N.E. Grounds, 1921 (Vancouver Daily World, 4 March 1921, 11, descrip.; dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
COLUMBIA STREET, at Cordova Street, commercial block of 7 stores for J. Merenstein, 1920 (Vancouver Sun, 21 July 1920, 12, descrip.)
SOLDIERS HOUSING ACT, a total of 69 detached houses in various locations in Vancouver, for returning soldiers, 1920 (Vancouver Sun, 14 Aug. 1920, 16, descrip.)
LEIGH BLOCK, West 37th Avenue at West Boulevard, for Thomas E. Leigh, 1921 (C.R., xxxvi, 1 Feb. 1922, 54; dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
GRANDVIEW THEATRE, Commercial Drive, for the Vancouver Little Theatre Co., 1921-23; demol. 1969 (Vancouver Daily World, 15 Oct. 1921, 8, illus. & descrip.; and 8 Nov. 1923, 5; dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
BELAIRE APARTMENTS, Hardwood Street near Bidwell Street, 1923 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
THE PROVINCE BUILDING, West Hastings Street at Cambie Street, office building for the Vancouver Daily Province Pub. Co., 1924 (C.R., xxxviii, 12 March 1924, 50)
CONNAUGHT DRIVE, in Shaughnessy Heights, residence for an unidentified owner, 1925 (C.R., xxxix, 8 July 1925, 685, illus. & descrip.)
B.C. POWER & GAS BUILDING, Carrall Street, gas retort house, quenching tower, carbonizing plant and stack, 1932 (C.R., xlvi, 27 Jan. 1932, 49; Vancouver Sun, 30 Jan. 1933, 8 and 9, illus. & detailed descrip.; dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
COLLISTER PARK, grandstand and baseball park, 1934 (Vancouver News-Herald, 6 Sept. 1934, 4, descrip.; dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
CAMBIE MOVIE THEATRE, West Broadway near Ash Street,, 1937 (The Province [Vancouver], 3 July 1937, 5)
ST. MARGARET'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Dumfries Street at East 22nd Avenue, 1938 (Vancouver Sun, 19 Feb. 1938, 6, illus.; dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
ODEON THEATRE, West Hastings Street, major alterations and modernization, 1946 (C.R., lix, Sept. 1946, 144)
G.H. COTTRELL LTD., Terminal Avenue, warehouse, 1947 (C.R., lx, May 1947, 130)
ODEON FRASER THEATRE, Fraser Street at East 47th Avenue, 1948 (Vancouver News-Herald, 13 Aug. 1949, 4, detailed descrip.; Province [Vancouver], 13 Aug. 1949, 6; dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
STUDIO THEATRE, Granville Street, 1948 (inf. D. Luxton, Vancouver)
H.H. SIMMONDS (works elsewhere)
CHILLIWACK, B.C., The Strand Theatre, a conversion with major alterations to the old Opera House, for Mr. Sweetman, 1924; burned April 1926; rebuilt by Simmonds (Chilliwack Progress, 28 Feb. 1924, 2; and 15 May 1924, 1, descrip.; 19 May 1926, 1, descrip. )
WEST VANCOUVER, major additions to Inglewood High School, 1936 (Vancouver Sun, 4 July 1936, 22, descrip.)
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., movie theatre, 4th Avenue, 1941 (C.R., liv, 5 Feb. 1941, 31)
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., Civic Theatre, Second Avenue, 1941 (C.R., liv, 25 June 1941, 94)
VICTORIA, B.C., Odeon Theatre, Yates Street near Blanshard Street, 1947-48 (C.R., lix, Sept. 1946, 142; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxvii, Sept. 1950, 294, illus.; M. Segger & D. Franklin, Exploring Victoria's Architecture, 1996, 80-1, illus.)
CLOVERDALE, B.C., Clova Movie Theatre, Pacific Highway, 1947 (Surrey Leader [Cloverdale], 15 May 1947, 1, illus. & descrip.)
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., Royal City Bowladrome, 8th Street, bowling alley, 1948 (C.R., lxi, July 1948, 134)
CLOVERDALE, B.C., Bank of Nova Scotia, 1949 (dwgs. at Bank of Nova Scotia Archives, Toronto)