PARR, John Edmeston (1856-1923), a successful and prolific architect whose can be credited with over 200 projects for industrial, commercial, institutional and residential buildings in the Vancouver area. He was active in the following offices:
J.E. Parr, Vancouver, 1896-1898
Parr & Fee, Vancouver 1898-1912 (with Thomas A. Fee)
Parr, MacKenzie & Day, Vancouver, 1912- April 1915 (with John MacKenzie and John C. Day)
J.E. Parr, Vancouver, 1919-1921
(biography in preparation)
J.E. PARR (works in Vancouver unless noted)
HARVEY'S CHAMBERS, Homer Street at Hastings Street West 'opposite the Metropolitan Club', including new store for Dunlap, Cooke & Co., 1896 (Vancouver Daily World, 11 July 1896, 2; and 18 Feb. 1897, 6, descrip.)
SULLIVAN BLOCK, Cordova Street, 1896 (Vancouver Daily World, 13 March 1897, 3)
NANAIMO, B.C., Green Block, Church Street at Dallas Square, 1896; major alterations and conversion into the New Windsor Hotel for Joseph Fox, 1905-06 (Vancouver Daily World, 13 March 1897, 3; Nanaimo Free Press, 6 Feb. 1905, 4; and 13 Oct. 1905, 1, descrip.; and 22 March 1906, 1, descrip.; C.R., xvi, 10 Jan. 1906, 2)
McDOWELL, ATKINS & WATSON CO., Cordova Street at Cambie Street, warehouse, 1899 (Vancouver Daily World, 2 March 1899, 8, descrip.; Vancouver of Today Architecturally, c. 1908, illus.)
PARR & FEE (Commercial & Industrial Works in Vancouver unless noted)
NEW ENGLAND FURNITURE CO., West Hastings Street, 1898 (Province [Vancouver], 2 April 1898, 6)
NANAIMO, B.C., Merchants Bank of Halifax, Commercial Street, 1898 (Province [Vancouver], 2 April 1898, 6; Nanaimo Free Press, 22 June 1898, 4, descrip.; Vancouver Daily World, 25 June 1898, 3, descrip.)
BURNABY STREET, near Broughton Street, residence for Charles F. Law, 1898 (Province [Vancouver], 2 April 1898, 6)
THOMSON BOOK & STATIONERY CO., Hastings Street near Homer Street, 1898 (Vancouver Daily World, 26 March 1898, 2; Province [Vancouver], 6 August 1898, 2, descrip.; 11 Aug. 1898, 3, descrip.)
MERCHANTS BANK OF HALIFAX, West Hastings Street, 1898 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 June 1898, 3, descrip.)
ROGERS BLOCK, Hastings Street, for Jonathan Rogers, 1898 (Province [Vancouver], 6 August 1898, 2, descrip.; and 11 Aug. 1898, 3, descrip.)
OPPENHEIMER STREET, near Columbia Avenue, warehouse for F.S. Bernard, 1898 (Province [Vancouver], 6 August 1898, 2)
RALPH BLOCK, West Hastings Street, between Abbott Street and Cambie Street, a three storey retail store and warehouse for William Ralph Hardware Co., 1899 (Province [Vancouver], 13 July 1899, 1, descrip.; Vancouver of Today Architecturally, 1900, illus.; dwgs. at BCPA, PDP 4423)
HASTINGS STREET, three storey commercial block for Georges Kohn, 1899 (Vancouver Daily World, 30 Sept. 1899, 6)
DONALDSON & MATHEW'S STORE, Cordova Street, new facade and entrance, 1900 (Vancouver Daily World, 9 May 1900, 8)
PENDER STREET, a two storey retail store for Edward Howard, 1900 (Province [Vancouver], 16 July 1900, 3, t.c.)
MOUNT PLEASANT NEIGHBOURHOOD, commercial block for John F. Clark, 1900 (Province [Vancouver], 6 Sept. 1900, 8, t.c.)
HAI HING LUNG CO., Carrall Street near Pender Street, block of three stores, 1901 (C.R., xii, 24 April 1901, 3)
CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Granville Street near Pender Street, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 26 Feb. 1902, 2)
EDWARDS BROTHERS, Granville Street, store and office, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 16 April 1902, 3, t.c.)
BARR & ANDERSON BLOCK, Hastings Street West, 1902, with additional two storeys added in 1907 (Vancouver b.p. 5 July 1902; C.R., xviii, 3 April 1907, 6, t.c.; inf. Donald Luxton, Vancouver)
CORDOVA STREET WEST, between Cambie Street and Homer Street, block for Theodore Simpson, 1902-03 (Province [Vancouver], 11 Nov. 1922, 32, historical article from 1902; C.R., xiii, 19 Nov. 1902, 2)
ORILLIA ROOMING HOUSE, Robson Street, for William L. Tait, 1903-04; demol. 1985 (C.R., xiv, 16 Dec. 1903, 3; H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1978, 187, illus.)
STANLEY, WHITE & CO., Westminster Avenue, two stores, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 10 June 1903, 3, t.c.)
HASTINGS STREET, commercial block for Henry J. Franklin, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 9 Ag. 1905, 4)
SEYMOUR STREET, near Dunsmuir Street, commercial block for Andrew M. Forbes & Co., 1905 (C.R., xvi, 23 Aug. 1905, 2, t.c.)
C.S. McCONNELL & CO., Powell Street, warehouse, 1905-06 (C.R., xvi, 22 Nov. 1905, 5)
ARMY & NAVY CLOTHING STORE, Cordova Street West, 1906 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
FLETCHER BUILDING, Hastings Street West, 1906 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
WEST HASTINGS STREET, between Carrall Street and Abbott Street, 3 storey block for Mr. DeGrey, 1906 (Vancouver Daily World, 10 Feb. 1906, 5)
WEST HASTINGS STREET, between Carrall Street and Abbott Street, 3 storey block for William A. Clark, 1906 (Vancouver Daily World, 10 Feb. 1906, 5)
McLENNAN, McFEELY & CO., Cordova Street East at Columbia Street, a large 5 storey warehouse, 1906-07 (C.R., xvi, 14 Feb. 1906, 4; Vancouver Daily Province, 24 July 1906, 1, descrip.; Vancouver Daily World, 8 Feb. 1908, 20, illus. & descrip.)
MARTIN & NICHOL'S BLOCK, Pender Street West at Seymour Street, 1906 (Vancouver Daily World, 10 March 1906, 1, descrip.; C.R., xvii, 14 March 1906, 4)
ALEXANDRA HOTEL, Water Street at Alexander Street, for A. St. George Hamersley, 1906; demol. 1917 (C.R., xvii, 14 March 1906, 4; Pacific Builder & Engineering Record [Seattle], iv, 26 May 1906, 9)
EMPIRE HOTEL, Hastings Street East at Columbia Street, major addition, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 14 March 1906, 4)
CORDOVA STREET, at Seymour Street, a 3 storey commercial block for J. Chamberlain "of London, England", 1906 (C.R., xvii, 6 June 1906, 4; Pacific Builder & Engineering Record [Seattle], iv, 9 June 1906, 11)
FREDERICK BUSCOMBE & CO., Hastings Street West near Homer Street, commercial block, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 27 June 1906, 4)
ALBERTA HOTEL, Pender Street, between Granville Street and Seymour Street, for Cavanaugh & Holden, 1906 (Vancouver Daily World, 30 June 1906, 2, descrip.)
GRANVILLE STREET, at Smithe Street, block for McCaulay & Nicolls, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 22 Aug. 1906, 5)
WATER STREET, commercial block for A. St. George Hamersley, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 5 Sept. 1906, 4)
W.J. MASSEY AUTO CO., Pender Street, 1906-07 (C.R., 19 Dec. 1906, xvii, 19 Dec. 1906, 2, t.c.)
MALKIN CO., Water Street, warehouse, 1907; addition 1911-12 (Pacific Builder & Engineer [Seattle], v, 23 March 1907, 12; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives; H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1978, 26, illus.)
BARR & ANDERSON BLOCK, Hastings Street West, addition of two storeys, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 3 April 1907, 6, t.c.)
BOYD-BURNS BLOCK, Alexander Street, 1907-08 (Vancouver Daily World, 18 Nov. 1907, 1; C.R., xviii, 4 Dec. 1907, 20)
BOWSER & WILSON BLOCK, 1907-08 (Vancouver Daily World, 18 Nov. 1907, 1)
VANCOUVER HARDWARE CO., Hastings Street West, c. 1908 (Vancouver of Today Architecturally, c. 1908, illus.)
DRYSDALE-STEVENSON CO., Hastings Street West, commercial block, c. 1908 (Vancouver of Today Architecturally, c. 1908, illus.)
IMPERIAL BLOCK, West Pender Street at Seymour Street ",,,adjoining the Delmonico Hotel", 1907-08 (Vancouver Daily World, 18 Nov. 1907, 1, descrip.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
MARTIN & ROBERTSON BLOCK, Water Street near Cambie Street, for Robert Martin and Arthur Robertson, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 14 Feb. 1908, 12, descrip.; C.R., xix, 4 March 1908, 19)
EDISON CO., Richards Street, commercial block, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 21 March 1908, 20, illus.)
HOTEL EUROPE, Powell Street at Alexander Street, for A. Calori, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 22 Feb. 1908, 20, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xix, 29 April 1908, 19, t.c.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
GIBBS BLOCK, Dunsmuir Street at Richards Street, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 July 1908, 23)
TWIGGS BLOCK, Richards Street at Pender Street, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 July 1908, 23)
FULLER BLOCK, Pender Street near Hornby Street, a three storey office block, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 July 1908, 23)
GRANVILLE STREET, near Smithe Street, three storey office and apartment block for Mr. Cushing, M.P. from Calgary, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 July 1908, 23)
HOWE STREET, at Hastings Street West, a seven storey hotel for Bauer & Harrison, 1908 (C.R., xxii, 26 Aug. 1908, 26; Vancouver Daily World, 5 Dec. 1908, 15)
GRANVILLE STREET, near West 4th Avenue, a three storey brick block for Mrs. Lydia H. Drayton ".....directly opposite the southerly approach to the new Granville Street bridge", 1908-09 (Vancouver Daily World, 26 Nov. 1908, 1; 22 March 1909, 15)
FERGUSON BLOCK, Carrall Street, major addition for store for Frank Filion, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 24 Feb. 1909, 22)
WEST PENDER STREET, between Hornby Street at Burrard Street, a three storey block of stores and apartments, 1909 (Vancouver Daily World, 12 Feb. 1909, 10)
SAVOY ROOMS, West Pender Street, a commercial block for MacLennan & Campbell, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 3 March 1909, 22)
GRANVILLE STREET, near Davie Street, commercial block "..next to the Tourist Hotel", for C.S. Douglas & A.E. Thorley, 1909 (Vancouver Daily World, 13 March 1909, 25, descrip.; C.R., xxiii, 31 March 1909, 23)
WEST PENDER STREET, between Cambie Street and Abbott Street, stores and rooming house for the National Finance Co., 1909 (Vancouver Daily World, 5 April 1909, 10, descrip.)
GRANVILLE STREET, at Davie Street, commercial block ",,,to be built alongside the present Lester Building", 1909 (Vancouver Daily World, 10 Sept. 1909, 12)
ROBSON STREET, at Granville Street, office block for J.M. Cameron, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 31 March 1909, 23)
BUTE STREET, at Melville Street, block for John J. Banfield, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 17 March 1909, 21)
IMPERIAL BANK, Granville Street, between 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue, 1909 (Vancouver Daily World, 15 May 1909, 29, descrip.)
LEESON, DICKIE GROSS & CO., Water Street, warehouse, 1909 (Vancouver Daily World, 31 Aug. 1909, 1; City of Vancouver b.p. 31 Aug. 1909)
HOTEL BARRON, Granville Street, 1910 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
F.R. STEWART & CO., Water Street, store, 1910 (City of Vancouver b.p. 14 Sept. 1910)
SEYMOUR STREET, near Pender Street, commercial block, 1910 (Province [Vancouver], 17 Dec. 1910, 1)
VANCOUVER BLOCK, Granville Street near Georgia Street, a five storey block for W.A. Clark, 1911-12 (Vancouver Daily World, 22 Nov. 1910, 19, descrip.; 7 Feb. 1911, 18, descrip.; C.R., xxv, 25 Jan. 1911, 28, descrip.; Vancouver & Victoria Architecturally, 1911, illus.; Province [Vancouver], 2 March 1912, 34, illus. & descrip.; H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1978, 83, illus.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
KILROY & MORGAN BLOCK, Granville Street, 1911 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
C.P.R. BUILDING, False Creek, 1911 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
DOMINON THEATRE, Granville Street near Nelson Street, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 24 May 1911, 62; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
GEORGE H. COTTRELL CO., Railway Street, warehouse, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 7 June 1911, 66, t.c.)
CAMBIE STREET, at Robson Street, warehouse for G.H. Cottrell 'adjoining the Tingley Block', 1911 (Province [Vancouver], 29 June 1911, 2)
NANAIMO, B.C., Windsor Hotel, Church Street, major addition, for Joseph Fox, 1910-11 (Nanaimo Free Press, 14 Feb. 1910, 1, descrip.; C.R., xxv, 25 Oct. 1911, 63, t.c.)
KERRISDALE, B.C., stores and apartments for Mr. Bowser, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 15 Nov. 1911, 63)
BURNS BLOCK, Granville Street, 1911-12, for Dominic Burns, with The Commercial Club occupying the two top floors, and tower with four clock faces each 23 feet in diameter, 1912 (The Sun [Vanocuver], 12 Feb. 1912, 13, descrip.; 11 March 1912, 13, descrip. of The Commercial Club interiors)
DUNSMUIR HOTEL, Dunsmuir Street at Richards Street, 1912 (Const., vi, May 1913, 39, illus. in advert.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
SUTHERLAND BLOCK, Hastings Street East near Main Street, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 2 March 1912, 36)
McDONALD'S CONSOLIDATED WAREHOUSE, Cambie Street, 1913 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
PARR & FEE (Residential Works in Vancouver)
NICOLA STREET, at Barclay Street, for A.T. Hollyier, 1898 (Vancouver Daily World, 26 March 1898, 2)
BARCLAY STREET, near Nicola Street, for James Collcutt, 1898 (Vancouver Daily World, 26 March 1898, 2)
BURNABY STREET, at Nicola Street, for Charles F. Law, 1898 (Vancouver Daily World, 26 March 1898, 2)
DAVIES STREET, near Nicola Street, for W.H. Malkin, 1898 (Vancouver Daily World, 26 March 1898, 2)
BURRARD STREET, near Smithe Street, for Basil Hock, 1898 (Vancouver Daily World, 26 March 1898, 2)
DENMAN STREET, at Haro Street, residence for Francis Western, 1898 (Province [Vancouver], 19 July 1898, 8, t.c.)
NICOLA STREET, residence for Cesare J. Marani, 1898 (Province [Vancouver], 18 Aug. 1898, 1, t.c.; Daily World [Vancouver], 18 Aug. 1898, 5, t.c.)
BURNABY STREET, near Bute Street, for James Beveridge, 1899 (Province [Vancouver], 4 May 1899, 5, t.c.)
BURNABY STREET, near Thurlow Street, two houses for Joseph Mannion, 1899 (Province [Vancouver], 19 April 1899, 1, t.c.)
PENDER STREET, two houses for H. Widdicombe, 1899 (Province [Vancouver], 16 Aug. 1899, 2, t.c.)
JERVIS STREET, for John R. Greenfield, 1899 (C.R., x, 23 Aug. 1899, 2, t.c.)
BARCLAY STREET, for Mr. Davidson, 1899 (Daily World [Vancouver], 2 Sept. 1899, 5, t.c.)
PENDER STREET, for William A. Bauer, 1899 (Vancouver Daily World, 30 Sept. 1899, 3)
BURNABY STREET, for James M.K. Letson, 1899 (C.R., x, 15 Nov. 1899, 2, t.c.)
BURNABY STREET, for Simon F. Mackenzie, 1899 (C.R., x, 29 Nov. 1899, 2, t.c.)
HARWOOD STREET, for Arthur E. Salsbury, 1900 (C.R., xi, 7 March 1900, 2, t.c.)
BROUGHTON STREET, near Comox Street, for William Hickey, 1900 (C.R., xi, 4 April 1900, 2, t.c.)
BURNABY STREET, for George H. Halse, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 25 Feb. 1903, 3, t.c.)
DENMAN STREET, for Charles Thompson, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 21 Oct. 1903, 4; Vancouver of Today Architecturally, c. 1908, illus.)
BROUGHTON STREET, at Pendrill Street, residence for the architect Thomas A. Fee, 1904 (H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1978, 137, illus.)
COMOX STREET, for Andrew D. Johnson, 1904 (Vancouver Heritage Inventory-Summary Report, 1986, 25, illus.)
HASTINGS STREET EAST, at Dunlevy Avenue, for Dr. Thomas H. Wilson, 1905 (C.R., xv, 15 Feb. 1905, 12)
BARCLAY STREET, at Chilco Street, for Frederick Buscombe, 1905; major addition, 1913 (C.R., xvi, 22 March 1905, 6; Province [Vancouver], 30 Aug. 1913, 3, illus.)
GILFORD STREET, at Nelson Street, for Richard H. Alexander, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 27 Sept. 1905, 6)
BROUGHTON STREET, at Pendrill Street, for John Lewerke, 1906 (Vancouver Daily World, 15 Jan. 1906, 9, t.c.; Pacific Building & Engineering Record [Seattle], iv, 27 Jan. 1906, 10)
BEACH AVENUE, for William H.P. Clubb, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 14 March 1906, 4)
BEACH AVENUE, at Chilco Street, for Capt. George H. French, 1906; demol. (Vancouver Daily World, 24 April 1906, 4, t.c.; inf. Patrick Gunn, Vancouver)
MELVILLE STREET, at Thurlow Street, three houses for William McNeish, 1906-07 (C.R., xvii, 19 Dec. 1906, 2)
MANHATTAN APARTMENTS, Robson Street at Thurlow Street, 1907 (Province [Vancouver], 26 Feb. 1907, 7; Const., vi, May 1913, 37, illus. in advert.; H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1978, 123, illus.; L. Maitland, Queen Anne Revival Style in Canadian Architecture, 1990, 185, illus.; H. Kalman, History of Canadian Architecture, 1994, 637-8, illus. & descrip.)
BUTE STREET, for John J. Banfield, 1908 (Vancouver of Today Architecturally, c. 1908, illus.)
DAVIE STREET, for Donald G. MacDonell, 1908 (Vancouver of Today Architecturally, c. 1908, illus.)
HORNBY APARTMENTS, Hornby Street, 1908 (C.R., xix, 25 March 1908, 23)
THURLOW STREET, at Robson Street, addition of ten apartments to block for W.L. Tate, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 July 1908, 23)
BUTE STREET, at Nelson Street, three storey apartment block for Mr. Honeyman, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 July 1908, 23)
9th AVENUE, in Fairview, apartment block for Mr. Desrossier, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 July 1908, 23)
SMITHE STREET, near Hornby Street, three storey apartment block for Mr. Reinhart, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 July 1908, 23)
WESTMINSTER AVENUE, three storey rooming house for James Borland, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 July 1908, 23)
WEST END, an 8 storey apartment block for T.F. Paterson, 1909 (Vancouver Daily World, 17 April 1909, 27, illus.)
WEST 12th AVENUE, near Yukon Street, residence for Narcisse Morin, 1909 (H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1993, 139, illus.)
POINT GREY ROAD, near Balsam Street, for Westen G. Fullerton, 1909 (C.R., xxii, 22 Sept. 1909, 22)
PRINCESS APARTMENTS, Granville Street, 1910 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
DENHAM COURT APARTMENTS, Jervis Street, 1913; demol. 1975 (inf. from Vancouver Building Register)
PARR & FEE (Institutional & Ecclesiastical Works in Vancouver)
VANCOUVER TENNIS CLUB, Denman Street at Barclay Street, a new clubhouse and pavilion, 1898 (Province [Vancouver], 9 May 1898, 4)
CHINESE METHODIST MISSION, Carrall Street at Pender Street, 1899 (C.R., x, 22 March 1899, 2; Vancouver Daily World, 24 July 1899, 3, descrip.; Vancouver of Today Architecturally, c. 1908, illus.)
LORD ROBERTS PUBLIC SCHOOL, Comox Street, 1900 (Province [Vancouver], 21 July 1900, 6; C.R., xi, 1 Aug. 1900, 3; Vancouver Daily World, 17 March 1901, 6)
ENGLISH BAY, Bathing Pavilion, Beach Avenue, 1905; addition, 1906 (C.R., xvi, 22 March 1905, 6; xvii, 11 April 1906, 5; Vancouver Daily World, 5 July 1905, 4, Letter to the Editor by Parr & Fee)
SACRED HEART ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, addition of a new Parish Hall, Campbell Avenue at Keefer Street, 1908 (Vancouver Daily World, 6 June 1908, 17, t.c.)
MOUNT PLEASANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 10th Avenue East at Quebec Street, 1908-09 (Vancouver Daily World, 25 July 1908, 23; 29 May 1909, 10, illus. & descrip.; H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1978, 180, illus.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
PARR, MacKENZIE & DAY (works in Vancouver unless noted)
BORLAND BLOCK, Hastings Street Est near Main Street, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 2 March 1912, 35)
OSLER STREET, near Shaughnessy Park, residence for J. W. Van Houten, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 2 March 1912, 34)
ANGELUS HOTEL, Dunsmuir Street, 1912 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
CAMERON BLOCK, Granville Street, 1912 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
ROBSON STREET, store for Oscar Schuman, 1912 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
GRANVILLE BROTHERS, Granville Street near Pacific Street, store and cleaning plant, 1912 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
BEATTY STREET, near the Cambie Street Bridge, a 5 storey warehouse for J.W. Gibb, 1912-13 (The Sun [Vancouver], 4 Nov. 1912, 11, descrip.)
CANADIAN FAIRBANKS MORSE CO., Robson Street at Beatty Street, 1912-13 (Province [Vancouver], 14 Dec. 1912, 36, illus. & descrip.; 22 March 1913, 26, descrip.; The Sun [Vancouver], 16 Dec. 1912, 19, descrip.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
ESPLANADE ROOMS, Beach Avenue near Burnaby Street, 1913 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
HOWE STREET, near Dunsmuir Street, a 4 storey mixed use commercial block with 7 stores and apartments above, for Bowser & Wilson, 1913 (Province [Vancouver], 4 Jan. 1913, 14; Daily News-Advertiser [Vancouver], 5 Jan. 1913, 28, descrip.; C.R., xxvii, 26 March 1913, 71)
HASTINGS STREET, between Columbia Avenue at Main Street, an 8 storey office building for an unnamed client, 1913 (Vancouver Daily World, 20 Feb. 1913, 24)
PENDER STREET, at Main Street, a 4 storey block of stores and a rooming house "...on the site of the old Glasgow Hotel", 1913 (Province [Vancouver], 15 March 1913, 24, descrip.; Vancouver Sun, 17 March 1913, 4, descrip.)
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C., hotel and stores for the Coquitlam Terminal Co., 1913-14 (C.R., xxvii, 3 Dec. 1913, 65)
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C., City Hall, 1914 (Vancouver Sun, 1 May 1914, 3)
J.E. PARR (works in Vancouver)
SOUTH VANCOUVER MEMORIAL HALL & COMMUNITY CENTRE, 1919 (Vancouver Daily World, 31 Oct. 1919, 8, illus., perspective signed by J.E. Parr, but incorrectly credited to the architect "F.E. Varr" [sic] )
DOMINION CANNERS LTD., Homer Street at Drake Street, conversion of existing warehouse, 1920 (Vancouver Sun, 19 June 1920, 11)
BEACH AVENUE, apartment block for an unidentified client, 1923 (dwgs. at Vancover City Archives)
COMPETITIONS
VICTORIA, B.C., James Bay Bridge, 1894. Parr submitted a design in the competition for a new bridge to James Bay, and for his effort he received the Second Premium (Vancouver Daily World, 22 June 1895, 8)
OLYMPIA, WASH., USA, State Capitol Building, 1894. Parr was one of several architects from Canada and the United States who submitted an entry in this major competition (Vancouver Daily World, 22 June 1895, 8). The competition was won by Ernest Flagg of New York, but construction of the winning design was halted after two years, and the project was completed by another American architect (H.R. Hitchcock, Temples of Democracy: The State Capitols of the U.S.A., 1976, 226)
VANCOUVER, B.C., Lord Roberts Public School, West End, 1900. Ten local architects submitted designs for the new West End School (also called Lord Roberts Public School), and Parr & Fee were awarded the commission (Province [Vancouver], 21 July 1900, 6).
VANCOUVER, B.C., Hotel Vancouver, 1900. Parr & Fee were one of six architectural firms from British Columbia who were invited by the C.P.R. head office in Montreal to submit designs for a new hotel (Province [Vancouver], 15 Oct. 1900, 7). It is unclear who won this competition, but the entry by Parr & Fee may have resulted in that firm receiving the commission in 1902 to design a major addition to the existing hotel (see item below)
VICTORIA, B.C., "Cary Castle", the Official Residence of the Lieut. Governor of British Columbia, 1901. Parr & Fee were one of nine architectural firms from British Columbia who submitted a design, and their scheme, signed with the nom de plume "Domus Consulis" was awarded 4th Prize of $75 (Province [Vancouver], 17 Jan. 1901, 1, with extensive description of the design by Parr & Fee; Peter Cotton, Vice-Regal Mansions of British Columbia, 1981, 72). The winners were Byrens & Sait, but their proposal was never built, and the B.C. Government later gave the commission to F.M. Rattenbury and Samuel Maclure.
VANCOUVER, B.C., major additions to the Hotel Vancouver, 1902. Parr & Fee were one of several local firms who submitted plans for this project. A perspective view of the elaborate 7 storey Romanesque Revival design by Parr & Fee was published as a full page plate in the Canadian Architect & Builder, xv, March 1902, illus. Their proposal was not built.
VANCOUVER, B.C., Vancouver High School, 1903. The office of Parr & Fee was one of seven firms invited to submit plans for the new High School in Fairview (Vancouver Daily World, 9 Sept. 1903, 2). The School Board later declared W.T. Whiteway as the winner.