STEAD, Matthew Sr. (1808-1879)
(biography in preparation)
(works in England)
LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE, Union Workhouse, New Road at Gravel Hill, for The Poor Law Commissioners, 1836, still standing as of 2018 and now part of the Ludlow Community Hospital (Derek Williams, The Study of Ludlow Workhouse, 2012; inf. Lynne Speake, Ludlow)
LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE, The Assembly Rooms [also called "The Public Rooms" and "The New Rooms"], Castle Street at Mill Street, 1840; still standing as of 2018 and now a public theatre complex facing Castle Square (inf. Ludlow Civic Society; inf. Lynne Speake, Ludlow)
SAINT JOHN
(Institutional & Ecclesiastical)
SAILOR'S HOME, 1847 (New Brunswick Courier [Saint John], 17 July 1847, 2, t.c.; 28 Aug. 1847, 2, t.c.)
PROVINCIAL LUNATIC ASYLUM, Lancaster Avenue, 1847-48; South Wing, 1858; North Wing 1861; addition to Centre Block, 1870 (New Brunswick Courier [Saint John], 26 June 1847, 2, descrip.; New Brunswick Reporter [Fredericton], 20 May 1853, 2; Daily Sun [Saint John], 27 Feb. 1904, 3, illus. & descrip.)
TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH, Germain Street, reconstruction after a fire, with new tower, 1849; burned 1877 (F. Brigstocke, History of Trinity Church 1791-1891, 24, illus.; L. Maitland, Neoclassical Architecture in Canada, 1984, 112, illus.)
ST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH, Main Street, 1851; burned 1877 (Echo & Protestant Recorder [Port Hope], 18 Nov. 1851, 3, descrip.; D. Jack, Essay on Saint John, New Brunswick, 1883, 139)
FIRST INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, a pavilion erected in front of the Mechanics Institute, 1851 (New Brunswick Courier [Saint John], 13 Sept. 1851, 2, descrip.)
BELL TOWER, King Square, 1852; with new wings and pillars added for the visit of the Prince of Wales, 1860 (New Brunswick Courier [Saint John], 10 July 1852, 2, t.c.; Morning News [Saint John], 6 Aug. 1860, 2, descrip.)
CARLETON, First Presbyterian Church, King Square, 1855-57 (Daily Sun [Saint John], 11 May 1907, 8, illus.; West Side Kirk - A Century of Service 1857-1957, 30-4)
EUROPEAN & NORTH AMERICAN RAILWAY, City Road, passenger station, engine house and car sheds, 1858-59 (Proceedings of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, 1858-59, Appendix, 422, 499; G. Hughes, Music of the Eye, 1991, 31-41, illus.)
ALMS HOUSE, addition, 1859 (Daily News [Saint John], 20 July 1859, 2, t.c.)
CARLETON, St. Jude's Anglican Church in Brook's Ward, 1859-61 (Daily News [Saint John], 27 July 1859, 2, t.c.; Morning Freeman [Saint John], 13 April 1861, 2, descrip.)
ST. MARY'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Waterloo Street at Alma Street, 1860-61; demol. 1967 (Morning Freeman [Saint John], 18 April 1861, 2, descrip.; D. Jack, Essay on Saint John New Brunswick, 1883)
ST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH (the Stone Church), Carleton Street, extensive interior alterations and improvements, 1862 (Weekly Telegraph [Saint John], 17 Oct. 1862, 1, descrip.)
ST. JOHN COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Sydney Street facing King Square, addition and alterations, 1862 (Daily News [Saint John], 13 Aug. 1862, 3, t.c.)
GENERAL PUBLIC HOSPITAL, Waterloo Row, 1862-64 (New Brunswick, Proceedings of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, 1864, Appendix - General Public Hospital)
CARLETON TOWN HALL, Guilford Street facing King Square, West Saint John, 1863-64 (Morning News [Saint John], 26 June 1863, 2, descrip.; Morning Telegraph [Saint John], 26 Oct. 1864, 2, descrip.; Canada, Town Halls of Canada, 1987, 269-70)
LEINSTER STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, 1864 (Morning Telegraph [Saint John], 27 June 1864, 2, descrip.)
ST. VINCENT'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CONVENT & ORPHAN ASYLUM, Cliff Street beside the Cathedral, 1864 (Morning Telegraph [Saint John] 19 Oct. 1864, 2, descrip.)
KING SQUARE, fountain and landscape design, c. 1866 (Morning Telegraph [Saint John] 28 May 1868, 2)
FOURTH INDUSTRIAL PROVINCIAL EXHIBITION, alterations and improvements to the Skating Rink Building, 1867 (Morning Freeman [Saint John], 10 Oct. 1867, 2, descrip.; New Brunswick, Proceedings of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, 1881)
CALVIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Hazen Street, new chancel, pulpit, tower and turrets, 1868 (Morning Telegraph [Saint John] 30 April 1868, 2, descrip.)
PORTLAND, St. Paul's Anglican Church (also called The Valley Church), Winter Street at Wall Street, 1869-70; burned 1981 (Morning Telegraph [Saint John] 8 May 1869, 2; Daily News [Saint John], 3 Sept. 1869, 3; Daily Morning News [Saint John], 16 Aug. 1871, 4, descrip.)
OPERA HOUSE, Dock Street, for Otis Small, 1870-71 (Saint John Daily Telegraph, 30 Sept. 1870, 3, descrip.; M. Smith, A History of Theatre in Saint John, 1981, 106-7, descrip.)
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL, Waterloo Street, addition of a spire, 1871 (Saint John Daily Telegraph, 5 May 1871, 3)
CUSTOM HOUSE, Water Street, addition of mansard roof 'in the French style', 1871; burned 1877 (Daily Morning News [Saint John], 24 Aug. 1871, 3, t.c.; Saint John Daily Telegraph, 22 April 1872, 3, descrip.)
POST OFFICE, Prince William Street at Princess Street, 1873-75; burned 1877 (Saint John Daily Telegraph, 31 May 1873, 2, descrip.; Canada, Sessional Papers, 1873, No. 6, 1873, Appendix 20, 145)
SACRED HEART ROMAN CATHOLIC CONVENT, near Waterloo Street, major addition, 1872 (Saint John Daily Telegraph, 2 May 1872, 3, descrip.)
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, Charlotte Street, 1873 (Saint John Daily Telegraph, 28 May 1873, 1, descrip.)
SYDNEY STREET, a public school 'on the site of the old Temperance Hall' for the Roman Catholic Bishop John Sweeny, 1878 (Daily Sun [Saint John], 8 Oct. 1878, 2)
POST OFFICE, Prince William Street at Princess Street, 1878-81; erected to replace the old Post Office destroyed by fire in June 1877; work begun by Stead in 1878; completed after the death of Stead by Thomas S. Scott and local architect W. Morgan Smith in 1880-81 (Citizen [Halifax], 2 May 1878, 1, t.c.; Saint John Globe, 21 Feb. 1881, 2, descrip.; Canada Sessional Papers, 1880, Appendix 3, 14-15, descrip.; G. Hughes, Music of the Eye, 1991, 60-3, illus.)
(Commercial & Industrial)
KING STREET, commercial block for Joseph W. and George H. Lawrence, 1849 (Morning News [Saint John], 5 Nov. 1849, 2, descrip.)
IMPERIAL BUILDING (also called Coffee House Corner), King Street, for John Gillis, 1853 (New Brunswick Courier [Saint John], 5 Nov. 1853, 2, descrip.)
COMMERCIAL PALACE, King Street, office block for Doherty & McTavish, 1855 (Morning News [Saint John], 20 July 1855, 2, descrip.)
BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, Chipman Hill, Prince William Street, 1861 (Nova Scotian [Halifax], 11 Feb. 1861, 7, t.c.)
WATER STREET, at Princess Street, commercial block for Thomas Furlong, 1864; burned 1877 (Morning Telegraph [Saint John], 17 Oct. 1864, 2, descrip.)
INDIANTOWN, three warehouses on the Public Wharf for Mathias Hamm, 1865 (Morning Telegraph [Saint John] 19 Aug. 1865, 2)
CHARLOTTE STREET, at Market Street, commercial block for Thomas Furlong, 1871; demol. 1955 (Saint John Daily Telegraph, 8 June 1871, 3, descrip.)
CANTERBURY STREET, near Church Street, commercial block for Thomas R. Jones, 1872-73 (Saint John Daily News, 16 Oct. 1872, 3, descrip; Saint John Daily Telegraph, 2 Aug. 1873, 1, descrip.)
SAVINGS BANK BUILDING, Princess Street at Canterbury Street, extensive alterations and addition of second floor and new roof, 1872-73; burned 1877 (Saint John Daily Telegraph, 30 May 1873, 3, descrip.; dwgs. at NAC, Acc. 80103/11, dwg. 10; Canada, Sessional Papers, No. 6, 1873, Appendix 20, 145; G. Hughes, Music of the Eye, 1991, 54-5, illus.)
MANCHESTER, ROBERTSON & ALLISON, King Street, commercial block, 1873 (Daily Morning News [Saint John], 3 May 1873, 3, descrip.)
(Residential)
PORTLAND, a mansion for Hon. Robert L. Hazen, at the Hazen Street, 1849; demol. c. 1955 (Morning News [Saint John], 31 Oct. 1849, 2, descrip.)
PORTLAND, cottage for Thomas E. Millidge, near Fort Howe, 1849 (Morning News [Saint John], 31 Oct. 1849, 2)
PORTLAND, residence for Mr. Burtis, 1849 (Morning News [Saint John], 31 Oct. 1849, 2)
(attributed) PORTLAND, 'Reed's Castle', a mansion for Robert Reed, Mount Pleasant Avenue, c. 1852; demol. 1919 (signed dwgs. at PANB, MC 91 showing proposed conversion of the mansion into a residence for the Lieutenant Governor in 1859; Univ. of New Brunswick, thesis by M. Williamson, 1974)
ELLIOT ROW, residence for John W. Beard, 1866 (dwgs. at New Brunswick Museum; G. Hughes, Music of the Eye, 1991, 48-50, illus.)
PORTLAND, residence for Frederick A. Hatheway, Main Street, c. 1871 (New Brunswick Museum, Quinton Papers, 23 Nov. 1871)
ELSEWHERE
DORCHESTER, N.B., Female Prison, 1851-52 (Proceedings of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, 1852, Appendix, clvii)
FREDERICTON, N.B., Wilmot Wesleyan Methodist Church, Carleton Street at King Street, 1851-52 (New Brunswick Reporter [Fredericton], 6 Aug. 1852, 2; 24 Dec. 1852, 2, descrip.; Wilmot United Church Fredericton 1791-1928, 15, illus.)
FREDERICTON, N.B., Provincial Exhibition Hall, 1852; demol. (Courier [Saint John], 10 July 1852, 2; Morning News [Saint John], 29 Nov. 1852, 2, descrip. & illus.)
CALAIS, MAINE, U.S.A., residence for Alexander Gilmour, c. 1854 (signed perspective on Map of Calias-St. Stephen, 1856; inf. from Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Augusta)
CARAQUET, N.B., St. Pierre-aux-Liens Roman Catholic Church, 1856 (dwgs. at PANB, Dugas Coll., MC 185)
SUSSEX VALE, N.B., 'The Knoll', a cottage for O.R. Arnold, 1859 Morning News [Saint John], 16 Feb. 1859, 3, t.c.)
NINE MILE STATION, N.B., Presbyterian Church, 1859-60, and an Anglican Church 'in the same district', 1859-60 Morning News [Saint John], 14 Oct. 1859, 2)
RICHMOND, N.S., near Halifax, station house for the Intercolonial Railway, 1860 (Daily News [Saint John], 22 June 1860, 2)
SUSSEX VALE, N.B., Provincial Exhibition Hall, 1861 (New Brunswick, Journal of the House of Assembly, 1862, Appendix 2, 114-18, descrip.; P. Hachey, The New Brunswick Landscape Print 1760-1880, 1980, plate 99, illus.)
FREDERICTON, N.B., Provincial Exhibition Hall, Westmoreland Street, 1864; burned 1873 (Saint John Globe, 13 June 1864, 2, descrip.; Morning Telegraph [Saint John], 27 Sept. 1864, 2, descrip.; P. Hachey, The New Brunswick Landscape Print 1760-1880, 1980, plate 105, illus.)
ST. GEORGE, N.B., Roman Catholic Church, 1864-65 (Morning Freeman [Saint John], 7 Jan. 1865, 2)
SHEDIAC, N.B., St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, 1866-71; demol. 1914 (Morning Freeman [Saint John], 2 Aug. 1866, 2)
PORTLAND, MAINE, U.S.A., Merchants National Bank, Exchange Street, 1867 (Daily News [Saint John], 3 April 1867, 2, descrip.; Morning Freeman [Saint John], 4 April 1867, 2, descrip.; Daily Eastern Argus [Portland], 15 June 1867, descrip.)
PORTLAND, MAINE, U.S.A., bakery store for G.W.H. Brooks, Brackett Street, 1867 (Portland Transcript, 30 Nov. 1867, descrip.)
ORONO, MAINE, U.S.A., a new building on the campus of he State Agricultural College, 1867 (Portland Daily Press, 31 Aug. 1867, 3, t.c.)
PORTLAND, MAINE, U.S.A., Marrett & Poor Carpet Co., Middle Street, a four storey retail store and warehouse, 1867; demol. c. 1930 (Portland Daily Press, 22 May 1867, 2, detailed descrip.)
PORTLAND, MAINE, U.S.A., Hale's Store, Free Street, for Ebenezer Libby, 1868 (Daily Eastern Argus [Portland], 11 Sept. 1868)
PORTLAND, MAINE, U.S.A., residence for Albert B. Butler, Walker Street, 1868 (Portland Daily Press, 15 June 1868, 2, descrip.)
PORTLAND, MAINE, U.S.A., a two storey apothecary store for Dr. H.T. Cummings, Congress Street, 1868 (Portland Daily Press, 18 June 1868, 2, descrip.)
PORTLAND, MAINE, U.S.A., Indoor Skating Arena, Congress Street at Mellen Street, 1868 (Portland Daily Press, 26 Oct. 1868, 2, descrip.)
BASS RIVER, N.B., St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, for Rev. Fowler, 1868-70; burned 1911 (Daily News [Saint John], 13 March 1868, 3; History of St. Mark's Presbyterian Congregation, Miramichi Presbytery, 1972)
(attributed) SHEDIAC, N.B., St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, 1872; demol. 1914 (inf. J.E. Belliveau, Shediac)
PETITCODIAC, N.B., hotel for the Wortman Brothers, 1872 (Saint John Daily Telegraph, 8 June 1872, 3)
MARYSVILLE, N.B., Wesleyan Methodist Church, built for Alexander Gibson, 1872; burned 1911 (Daily Morning News [Saint John], 6 Jan. 1873, 2, descrip.)
SACKVILLE, N.B., improvements and alterations to the Marine Hospital, 1875 (Daily News [Saint John], 19 March 1875, 3)
TRACADIE, N.B., St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church, 1874-75 (Daily News [Saint John], 22 Oct. 1875, 3, descrip.)
MONCTON, N.B., St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church, Church Street, 1877-79; demol. (Saint John Weekly Freeman, 4 Oct. 1879, 3)