TRIMEN, Leonard Buttress (1846-1892)
(biography in preparation)
L. Buttress TRIMEN (works in Victoria, B.C.)
FORT STREET, commercial block for Hon. Wymand Hamley, 1887 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 14 Sept. 1887, 4)
FORT STREET, block for Mr. Anderson, 1887 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 14 Sept. 1887, 4)
BEACON HILL PARK, bandstand, 1888 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 17 Feb. 1888, 1, t.c.; Victoria Daily Times, 28 June 1888, 4)
KINGSTON STREET, at Montreal Street, residence for J. Adrian T. Caton, 1888; demol. 1974 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 12 April 1888, 1, t.c.; Victoria Daily Times, 28 June 1888, 4; inf. Jennifer Barr, Victoria)
SUPERIOR STREET, near Menzies Street, residence for Miss Emma McCandless [sic], actually McCandlish, 1888 (Victoria Daily Times, 28 June 1888, 4)
VICTORIA CITY HALL, Douglas Street at Pandora Avenue, addition, 1888 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 16 May 1888, 1, t.c.; Victoria Daily Times, 28 June 1888, 4)
JOHNSON STREET, at Waddington Alley, commercial block of two stores and adjoining warehouse, for Felix Le Claire, 1888 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 16 June 1888, 1, t.c.; and 1 Jan. 1889, Supplement, 2; Victoria Daily Times, 28 June 1888, 4)
ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Douglas Street at Broughton Street, 1888-90 (Victoria Daily Times, 10 Aug. 1888, 1, descrip.; and 29 Nov. 1888, 3; and 7 March 1889, 4, descrip.; Daily Colonist [Victoria], 13 Jan. 1889, 1, t.c.; and 12 Jan. 1890, 4, illus. & descrip.; C.A.B., xi, March 1898, illus. plate; M. Segger & D. Franklin, Victoria, 1979, 220-21, illus.; Barry Magrill, A Commerce of Taste: Church Architecture in Canada 1867-1914, pub. 2012, 163-65, descrip.; )
GORGE ROAD, 'Ashnola', a residence for Capt. Northing P. Snowden, 1888; demol. 1971 (Victoria Daily Times, 28 June 1888, 4; and 27 Dec. 1888, 3; Daily Colonist [Victoria], 1 Jan. 1889, Supplement, 2; M. Segger & D. Franklin, Victoria, 1979, 30, illus.)
BEACON HILL PARK, residence on Park Road for G. A. McTavish, 1889 (Victoria Daily Times, 27 Dec. 1888, 3; Daily Colonist [Victoria], 1 Jan. 1889, Supplement, 2)
E.G. PRIOR HARDWARE CO., Government Street at Johnson Street, a four storey commercial block for Edward G. Prior, 1888 (Victoria Daily Times, 28 June 1888, 4; and 27 Dec. 1888, 3; Daily Colonist [Victoria], 1 Jan. 1889, Supplement, 2)
BRACKMAN & KER LTD., Government Street, near Johnston Street, a three storey commercial block, 1889 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 27 April 1889, 1, t.c.; Victoria Daily Times, 25 Sept. 1889, 1, descrip.)
MOSS STREET, at Belcher Street, 'Ellesmere', a large residence for James Angus, 1889-90 (Victoria Daily Times, 7 April 1890, 4, descrip., but incorrectly credited to S.C. Burris, with printed correction on 8 April 1890, 4, with credit to L.B. Trimen; M. Segger & D. Franklin, Victoria, 1979, 272-5, illus.; Victoria Heritage Foundation, This Old House: Victoria's Heritage Neighbourhoods, Vol. 3, 2021, 200-01, illus. & descrip.)
DICKSON CAMPBELL & CO., Store Street, major addition, 1889-91 (M. Segger & D. Franklin, Exploring Victoria's Architecture, 1996, 27, illus.)
JOHNSON STREET, at Oriental Alley, commercial block for Henry Saunders, 1890 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 5 Feb. 1890, 1, t.c.)
ANDERSON BLOCK, Johnson Street, east of Oriental Alley, a three storey commercial block for James Anderson, 1890; still standing as of 2019 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 20 July 1890, 4, descrip.; Victoria Daily Times, 2 Aug. 1890, 7, descrip.; inf. Jennifer Barr, Victoria)
COLONIAL HOTEL, Johnson Street, 1890; rebuilding and conversion of the old building, 1890, with adjacent addition by Thomas Hooper, 1891; still standing as of 2019 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 7 May 1890, 6; inf. Donald Luxton, Vancouver)
FORT STREET, near Cadboro Bay Road, residence for Sir Henry P. Pellew Crease, c. 1890 (list of works in Williams British Columbia Directory, 1892, 1190; dwgs. at BCPA; Victoria Heritage Foundation, This Old House: Victoria's Heritage Neighbourhoods, Vol. 3, 2021, 148, illus. & descript.)
ESQUIMALT ROAD, 'Mount Adelaide', a large residence for Henry Croft, M.P.P., to cost $30,000, 1890-91 (Victoria Daily Times, 8 Jan. 1891, 8, detailed architectural descrip.; and list of works in Williams British Columbia Directory, 1892, 1190)
BELCHER STREET, a gate lodge, fencing and gateway at the residence of Mr. Dunsmuir, 1891 (Victoria Daily Times, 6 April 1891, 8, t.c.)
POWELL HARDWARE CO., Government Street near Johnson Street, retail block for George Powell, of Powell & Currall, 1891 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 13 May 1891, 5; Victoria Daily Times, 20 June 1891, 3, t.c.)
L. Buttress TRIMEN (works elsewhere in British Columbia)
WELLINGTON, B.C., residence for John Bryden, Manager of Wellington Collieries, 1888 (Nanaimo Free Press, 29 Aug. 1888, 3, t.c.; list of works in Williams British Columbia Directory, 1892, 1190)
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., commercial block for L. Wolff 'on the site of the present Caledonia Hotel', 1888 (Mainland Guardian [New Westminster], 24 Oct. 1888, 3)
VANCOUVER, B.C., Harrison Block, Granville Street at Smithe Street, 1888 (Vancouver Daily World, 1 Oct. 1888, 4, t.c.; and 23 Oct. 1888, 1, descrip.; and 31 Dec. 1888, 4)
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., addition to the Caledonia Block for a hotel, Front Street, 1889, (Vancouver Daily World, 13 Feb. 1889, 4; Daily British Columbian [New Westminster], 28 May 1889, 4, t.c.)
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., Douglas Hotel, Columbia Avenue, c. 1890 (list of works in Williams British Columbia Directory, 1892, 1190)
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., Bank of Montreal, Columbia Avenue, c. 1890 (list of works in Williams British Columbia Directory, 1892, 1190)
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., Hamley Block, c. 1890 (list of works in Williams British Columbia Directory, 1892, 1190)