PENNINGTON, James Carlisle (1885-1963), the acknowledged dean of the architectural scene in Windsor and Essex County, and who was active for over fifty years in the following offices:
Crane & Pennington, with dual offices in Windsor, Ont. and Detroit, Mich. (with C. Howard Crane)
J.C. Pennington, Windsor, Ont. 1913-1920
Pennington & Boyde, Windsor, Ont. 1921-1937 (with John R. Boyde)
J.C. Pennington, Windsor, Ont., 1937 to 1950 and after
(biography in preparation)
The City of Windsor Archives holds an extensive collection of original architectural drawings prepared by J.C. Pennington between 1908 and 1963. These drawings document over 600 projects designed by Pennington, and by Pennington & Boyde, and virtually every project listed below is accompanied by drawings in this collection which was donated to the City of Windsor by William Fraser, Architect, in 1987 (see full article on this collection is The Windsor Star, 7 Feb. 1987, A5, illus. & descrip.).
J.C. PENNINGTON (works in Windsor)
PIERRE AVENUE, at Assumption Street, a two-family flat for Miss C. Langlois, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 30 July 1913, 5)
VICTORIA AVENUE, residence for Charles A. Smith, 1913-14 (C.R., xxvii, 12 Nov. 1913, 74)
EMPRESS THEATRE, Pitt Street East, 1914 (C.R., xxvii, 18 March 1914, 80)
VICTORIA AVENUE, residence for Walter G. Bartlet, 1914 (C.R., xxviii, 7 Jan. 1914, 43)
SANDWICH, ONT., residence for Robert M. Morton, Main Street, on the river front, 1914 (C.R., xxviii, 7 Jan. 1914, 43)
J.T. WING & CO., Pitt Street East, between McDougall Avenue and Mercer Avenue, factory, 1914; garage, showroom and warehouse, 1929 (Detroit Free Press, 29 Jan. 1914, 12, descrip.; C.R., xxviii, 8 July 1914, 80, t.c.; and xliii, 24 April 1929, 66)
WINDSOR COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, Ann Street at Goyeau Street, major addition, 1915-16; addition 1919-20; demol. 1979 (Detroit Free Press, 21 May 1915, 8; Evening Record [Windsor], 27 Dec. 1915, 9, t.c.; and 6 June 1917, 9, illus. & detailed descrip.; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 27 Dec. 1915, 9, t.c.; Const., xi, July 1918, 215-18, illus. & descrip.)
WYANDOTTE STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, [later called J.E. Benson School], Wyandotte Street, between McEwan Avenue and Curry Avenue, 1914-15 (Detroit Free Press, 7 June 1914, 10, illus. & descrip.; Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
LEGGETT & PLATT CO., McDougall Street, bed spring factory, c. 1914; addition of a second floor, 1919; major addition, 1922 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 26 April 1919, 7; 13 July 1922, 11; 11 Sept. 1922, 7, descrip.)
HUPP MOTOR CAR CO., McDougall Street at Giles Boulevard, factory, 1914 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
CHURCH STREET, residence for John C. Conibear, c. 1914 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
VICTORIA AVENUE, residence for W. Ronald McGregor, c. 1914 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
MERETSKY BLOCK, Pitt Street East, c. 1914 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
SANDWICH STREET WEST, residence for Samuel Buchanan, c. 1914 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
WYANDOTTE STREET, east of Langlois Avenue, a two storey retail block for Paul Gilbert, 1915 (Evening Record [Windsor], 18 May 1915, 7)
MASONIC TEMPLE, Ouellette Avenue at Erie Street, designed 1915, but not built until 1921; see Pennington & Boyde, below; (Evening Record [Windsor], 3 June 1915, 2; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 17 Dec. 1921, 5, illus. & extensive descrip.)
MORTON & FOWELL BLOCK, Goyeau Street near Pitt Street, block of stores and public motor garage, 1915 (Detriot Free Press, 5 Aug. 1915, 9)
VICTORIA AVENUE, residence for the architect J.C. Pennington, 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 10 April 1916, 3)
SANDWICH, ONT., Registry Office, Brock Street at Sandwich Street, c. 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
AUDITORIUM BUILDING, Ouellette Avenue, c. 1916; with rear addition for the Knights of Columbus Hall, 1922 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48; and 4 Jan. 1923, Section One, 3, illus.; C.R., xxxvi, 17 May 1922, 145, t.c.)
LA BELLE BUILDING, Ouellette Avenue at London Street West, c. 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
BARTLET, MacDONALD & GOW BLOCK, Sandwich Street East, c. 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
WINDSOR MACHINE & TOOL WORKS LTD., Pitt Street West, extensive addition to factory, 1917 (Evening Record [Windsor], 19 June 1917, 7, illus. & descrip.)
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL, Tecumseh Road at Bruce Avenue, 1917 (Evening Record [Windsor], 1 Aug. 1917, 8, t.c.)
MENARD MOTOR TRUCK CO., London Street West, factory, 1918-19 (C.R., xxxii, 13 Nov. 1918, 41)
AUTO SPECIALTY MFR. CO. OF CANADA, Albert Road, in Ford City, a large factory, 1919 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 31 March 1919, 3; C.R., xxxiii, 16 April 1919, 51)
MARSH'S CANDIES LTD., Pitt Street East, factory for Benjamin H. Marsh, 1919 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 31 March 1919, 3)
SANDWICH, ONT., a new movie theatre, 1919 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 31 March 1919, 3)
B'NAI ZION HEBREW SCHOOL, Tuscarora Street at Aylmer Avenue, new school and auditorium, 1919 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 15 May 1919, 15, t.c.; and 17 May 1919, 3, descrip.)
RIVERSIDE DRIVE, residence for Thomas Chick, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 10 March 1920, 65)
UNIVERSAL CAR AGENCY, Chatham Street West at Church Street, garage, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 31 March 1920, 62)
BARTLET BLOCK, London Street West, between Ouellette Avenue and Pellissier Street, for E.N. Bartlet, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 19 May 1920, 59, t.c.; and xxxvi, 26 July 1922, 738, illus.; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 29 July 1920, 3, illus. & descrip.; and 19 March 1921, 12, illus. & descrip.)
J.C. PENNINGTON (works outside Windsor)
HARROW, ONT., high school, c. 1914 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
AMHERSTBURG, ONT., residence for Walter Chater, c. 1914 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
MAIDSTONE TOWNSHIP, ONT., township hall at South Woodslee, 1915 (Detroit Free Press, 9 April 1915, 15; Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
AMHERSTBURG, ONT., large auto garage, Dalhousie Street "adjoining the Post Office", 1915 (Detroit Free Press, 9 May 1915, 8; Evening Record [Windsor], 10 May 1915, 5)
AMHERSTBURG, ONT., Echo Printing Co., 1915 (Detroit Free Press, 23 May 1915, Section Five, p. 2; Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
AMHERTSBURG, ONT., restoration and remodeling of the historic Hackett House (built c. 1795), overlooking the Detroit River, and facing Bois Blanc Island, 1915 (Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 1915, 9, descrip.)
AMHERSTBURG, ONT., a new two storey residence for Charles Hackett, 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 28 Jan. 1916, 6)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., residence for Charles Porter, Windemere Road, c. 1915 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., residence for Dr. L.D. Hogan, Kildare Road, c. 1915 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., residence for William Woollatt, Kildare Road, 1915-16 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 Nov. 1915, 2, descrip.; Detroit Free Press, 24 Nov. 1915, 11)
UNION-ON-THE-LAKE, ONT., major addition to the Essex Tuberculosis Hospital, 1916 (Detroit Free Press, 26 March 1916, 14)
ESSEX, ONT., railway station for the Windsor, Essex & London Railway Co., c. 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
NORTH RIDGE, ONT., public school, 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 22 Feb. 1916, 2, descrip.; and 23 May 1917, 48)
BATTEN, ONT., public school, c. 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 23 May 1917, 48)
FORD CITY, ONT, McGregor Public School, Sandwich Street at Belle Isle Avenue, 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 7 June 1916, 9, t.c.; and 20 Oct. 1916, 10, illus. & descrip.; and 28 Feb. 1917, 9, detailed architectural descrip.; and 23 May 1917, 48)
PELEE ISLAND, ONT., store and warehouse for Norman MacCormick, 1916; and residence for Mr. McCormack [sic], c. 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 17 Feb. 1916, 3; and 23 May 1917, 48)
EAST WINDSOR, ONT., residence "...in the colonial style, on the Riverfront east of Ford City" for E. Fitzgibbons of Detroit, 1918-19 (Evening Record [Windsor], 21 Nov. 1918, 3)
AMHERSTBURG, ONT., Imperial Bank, 1919 (C.R., xxxiii, 19 Feb. 1919, 45)
ESSEX, ONT., I.O.O.F. Building, addition and alterations, 1919 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 16 July 1919, 13, t.c.)
FORD CITY, ONT. a large colonial style residence for George Parent, "...on the River Front", 1919 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 23 July 1919, 3)
FORD CITY, ONT., residence for C. Holmes of Detroit, on Rosini Boulevard, 1919 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 12 Aug. 1919, 3, descrip.;)
FORD CITY, ONT., Ecole Lucien Beaudoin, Drouillard Road, 1919-20 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 26 Sept. 1919, 3, illus. & descrip.)
LEAMINGTON, ONT., public school, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 31 March 1920, 60)
PENNINGTON & BOYDE (Institutional & Ecclesiastical works in Windsor)
MASONIC TEMPLE, Ouellette Avenue at Erie Street, a commission won in a competition by J.C. Pennington in 1915, but not built until 1921 (Evening Record [Windsor], 3 June 1915, 2; C.R., xxxv, 25 May 1921, 60, t.c.; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 28 April 1921, 3; 25 June 1921, 4, illus. & descrip.; 17 Dec. 1921, 5, illus. & extensive descrip.)
OUELLETTE PUBLIC MARKET BUILDING, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 24 Feb. 1922, 11)
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS HALL, Ouellette Avenue, major addition at the rear of the present building, facing Pellisier Street, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 April 1922, 7; 1 June 1922, 3, illus. & descrip.)
DOUGALL AVENUE PUBLIC SCHOOL, major addition of auditorium and gymnasium, 1925 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 27 June 1925, 5)
OUR LADY OF PROMPT SUCCOR ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, McEwan Avenue at Wyandotte Street West, church and rectory, 1926 (C.R., xl, 31 March 1926, 51; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 18 Jun. 1927, 3, illus. & descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, v, Jan. 1928, 7-13, illus. & descrip.)
WOOLLATT CHURCH HOUSE & SUNDAY SCHOOL HALL, Lincoln Road near Wyandotte Street East, 1926, adjacent to, and attached to, Lincoln Road United Church (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 28 Aug. 1926, Section Two, 11, illus. & descrip.; inf. Andrew Foot, Windsor)
WEST END UNITED CHURCH, London Street West, a Sunday School for the church, 1927 (C.R., xli, 13 April 1927, 52)
SACRED HEART ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Ottawa Street at Benjamin Avenue, 1927 (C.R., xli, 2 Feb. 1927, 50)
WESTERN PUBLIC SCHOOL, Peter Street West near Grove Avenue, 1927 (Border Cities Star, 18 June 1927, 5; C.R., xli, 29 June 1927, 50)
VILLA MARIA, a Roman Catholic Home for the Aged & Orphans, near the Roseland Golf & Country Club, 1929 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 1 Feb. 1929, 1, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xliii, 3 July 1929, 62, t.c.; Detroit Free Press, 5 May 1929, Section Seven, 1 & 2, illus; 5, descrip.)
ST. GENEVIEVE ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Irvine Street, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 29 May 1929, 180; dwgs. Windsor City Archives)
ST. FRANCOIS ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Tuscarora Street, 1930 (C.R., xliv, 19 Feb. 1930, 58)
H.E. GUPPY PUBLIC SCHOOL, Tecumseh Road at Highland Avenue, 1929-30 (Detroit Free Press, 16 Sept. 1927, 4; and 19 Dec. 1928, 17, descrip.; and 5 May 1929, Section Seven, 3; C.R., xliv, 6 Aug. 1930, 64)
HOTEL DIEU HOSPITAL, Ouellette Avenue, major addition, 1932; Nurse's Residence, 1946 (C.R., xlvi, 9 March 1932, 112; Windsor Star, 28 May 1938, 14-15, illus. & descrip.; Canadian Hospital, xv, Sept. 1938, 26-7, 49, illus. & descrip.; xxiii, June 1946, 40-1, illus.)
PENNINGTON & BOYDE (Commercial and Industrial works in Windsor)
CRAWFORD HOUSE HOTEL, Sandwich Street, major addition, 1921 (C.R., xxxv, 19 Oct. 1921, 47)
KING BLOCK, Ouellette Avenue, 1922 (dwgs. Windsor City Archives)
GRINNELL BROTHERS MUSIC STORE, Ouellette Avenue, 1925 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 7 March 1925, 5, descrip.)
BAYER ASPRIN CO. LTD., [also called Sterling Products], Elliott Street West at Oak Avenue, large 3 storey factory and offices, 1925 (C.R., xxxix, 25 March 1925, 51, t.c.; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 25 April 1925, 3, descrip.; and 21 May 1925, 5, descrip.)
SECURITY BUILDING, Pelissier Street at London Street, a 10 storey office tower, 1927-28 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 31 Dec. 1926, Section Three, 15, illus.; and 29 Oct. 1927, Section Three, 4-10, illus. & detailed architectural descrip.; C.R., xli, 7 Dec. 1927, 24, illus. in advert.)
U.S. PLAYING CARD CO., Mercer Street, factory, 1927 (C.R., xli, 17 Aug. 1927, 54, t.c.)
METROPOLITAN BUILDING, London Street at Victoria Avenue, office tower, 1928-29 (C.R., xlii, 30 May 1928, 174; and 26 Dec. 1928, 45, illus. in advert.; Detroit Free Press, 22 July 1928, Section Six, p. 3, illus. & descrip.; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 1 June 1929, Section Four, 1-6, illus. & detailed architectural descrip.)
MERLORAY TOWER, London Street at Ouellette Avenue, an 18 storey skyscraper for Louis A. Merlo and John A. Ray, 1929 (Detroit Free Press, 3 March 1929, Section Seven, 2, descrip.)
STERLING PRODUCTS LTD., Elliott Street, major addition, 1930 (Detroit Free Press, 3 April 1930, 10)
PASCOE BLOCK, Ouellette Avenue at Maiden Lane, 1931 (C.R., xlv, 16 Dec. 1931, 1499)
A.S. BOYLE CO., College Avenue at Campbell Avenue, factory, 1932 (C.R., xlvi, 13 April 1932, 47, t.c.)
PENNINGTON & BOYDE (Residential works in Windsor)
RIVERSIDE DRIVE, residence for Fred J. White, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 April 1922, 7)
VICTORIA AVENUE, residence for J. Dewhirst, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 April 1922, 7)
VICTORIA AVENUE, residence for E.A. Cleary, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 April 1922, 7)
VICTORIA AVENUE, at Hanna Street, large residence for John Digby Chick, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 18 May 1922, 3)
KAPLAN APARTMENTS, Moy Avenue at Wyandotte Street, a three storey block of stores and apartments, for Louis Kaplan, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 5 July 1922, 3, descrip.)
PENNINGTON & BOYDE (Institutional & Ecclesiastical works outside Windsor)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., Collegiate Institute, Richmond Street at Argyle Road, 1921-22 (C.R., xxxvi, 26 July 1922, 746, 748, illus.; Const., xvi, Jan. 1923, 2-7, illus. & descrip.; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 2 Nov. 1922, 15, descrip.)
AMHERSTBURG, ONT., High School, 1921; major addition, 1950 (C.R., xxxv, 16 March 1921, 59; lxiii, Sept. 1950, 122-3, t.c.)
ESSEX, ONT., High School, 1921; with major addition, 1948 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 20 May 1921, 3; 2 July 1921, 17, t.c.; C.R., xxxv, 13 July 1921, 46, t.c.; lxi, May 1948, 175)
CHATHAM, ONT., Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church, Victoria Avenue, 1922 (C.R., xxxvi, 5 April 1922, 56, t.c.; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 April 1922, 7; and 11 Jan. 1923, 2, descrip.)
TECUMSEH, ONT., Beach Grove Country Club, a new clubhouse, Riverside Drive East, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 April 1922, 7; 18 May 1922, 3)
FORD CITY, ONT., Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Separate School, Drouillard Road, 1922; with major addition of classrooms and auditorium in 1923 (C.R., xxxvi, 3 May 1922, 54, t.c.; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 17 March 1923, Section Two, p. 5, illus.)
PETITE COTE, ONT, Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 10 Jan. 1922, 14, descrip.; C.R., xxxvi, 17 May 1922, 139)
LEAMINGTON, ONT. St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 April 1922, 7)
WOODSLEE, ONT., Roman Catholic Convent, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 April 1922, 7)
LEAMINGTON, ONT., major addition to the High School, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 13 July 1922, 11; C.R., xxxvi, 13 Sept. 1922, 50)
OLINDA, ONT., public school, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 13 July 1922, 11)
RIVERSIDE, ONT., St. Rose de Lima Roman Catholic Church, Intersection Road near Ottawa Street, 1924 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 17 Dec. 1923, 3, descrip.; and 23 June 1924, 5, descrip.; C.R., xxxviii, 27 Feb. 1924, 52)
PORT ARTHUR, ONT., St. Andrew;s Roman Catholic Church, Arthur Street, 1924 (C.R., xxxviii, 21 May 1924, 49)
FORD CITY, ONT., St. Jules Roman Catholic School, Elizabeth Road at Norman Road, 1924 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 8 July 1924, 9, t.c.; and 27 March 1925, 3, illus.)
FORD CITY, ONT., Roman Catholic School, near Pillette Road and Tecumseh Road, 1924 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 July 1924, 3)
FORD CITY, ONT., Roman Catholic School, Rossini Street, between Ottawa Street and the CNR tracks, 1924 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 July 1924, 3)
PETIT COTE, ONT., a two room school, River Front Road, 1924 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 21 Aug. 1924, 9, t.c.)
FORD CITY, ONT., St. Joseph's Roman Catholic School, 1925 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 6 May 1925, 5)
LONDON, ONT., Brescia Hall, for the Ursuline Sisters, near Western Road at Sarnia Road, on the campus of the University of Western Ontario, 1924-25 (C.R., xxxviii, 2 Jan. 1924, 46; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 Sept. 1924, 8, descrip.; Const., xix, Jan. 1926, 4-12, illus. & descrip.)
LONDON, ONT., St. Peter's Roman Catholic Seminary, Huron Street, at Sunshine Park, designed 1923; built 1925-26; addition of a cloister, 1929; Chapel, 1929-30 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 15 Nov. 1923, 3; and 3 Feb. 1925, 5, illus. & descrip.; and 27 May 1925, 2, detailed descrip.; Free Press [London], 12 Dec. 1925, 32, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xli, 13 July 1927, 74, illus. in advert.; and xliii, 20 March 1929, 68; R.A.I.C. Journal, vii, Oct. 1930, 361-73, illus. & descrip.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., Metropolitan General Hospital, Lens Avenue at Byng Road, a project won in a competition, 1926-28; with Nurse's Residence, 1942; major additions to hospital, 1944, 1950 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 4 Dec. 1926, 5, illus. & descrip.; C.R., lx, 10 Feb. 1926, 54; and xliii, 10 July 1929, 17, illus. in advert; and lv, 29 July 1942, 27; and lviii, 22 March 1944, 29; and lxiii, July 1950, 121; Detroit Free Press, 15 May 1927, Section Four, 8, illus.; and 6 Feb. 1928, 2 & 20, illus. & descrip.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT. Fire Hall, Huron Street at Walker Road, 1927 (C.R., xli, 8 June 1927, 55)
TECUMSEH, ONT., clubhouse for the Beach Grove Country Club, 1927 (Daily Commercial News [Toronto], 30 July 1927, 5; Border Cities Star [Windsor], 31 Dec. 1927, Section Four, 8, illus. & descrip.; and 13 July 1929, Section Three, 5, illus. & descrip.)
SARNIA, ONT., St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Stuart Street, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 9 May 1928, 53)
FORD CITY, ONT., David Maxwell Public School, Francois Road at Alice Street, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 28 March 1928, 48, t.c.; inf. Andrew Foot, Windsor)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., Public Market Hall, Huron Street at Walker Road, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 28 March 1928, 48)
PENNINGTON & BOYDE (Commercial and Industrial works outside Windsor)
FORD CITY, ONT., commercial block of stores and apartments for Samuel K. Baum, Drouillard Road, between Charles Street and Huron Street, 1924 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 6 Feb. 1924, 3)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., Chrysler Corp. of Canada, Tecumseh Road East at Walker Road, major addition of a third floor above the existing assembly building, 1928-29 (Gazette [Montreal], 19 April 1928, 19; C.R., xliii, 7 Aug. 1929, 17, illus. in advert.; inf. Scott Edwards)
SANDWICH, ONT., rebuilding of a large factory for the Sandwich Foundry Co., to replace building destroyed by fire, 1929-30 (Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 1929, 20)
CHATHAM, ONT., William Pitt Hotel, Sixth Street at King Street, 1930 (Canadian Hotel Review, viii, Nov. 1930, 17-20, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xlv, 23 Dec. 1931, 51, illus. in advert.)
PENNINGTON & BOYDE (Residential works outside Windsor)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., residence for S.A. Griggs, Argyle Road, 1921 (C.R., xxxv, 2 March 1921, 61)
SANDWICH, ONT., residence for Lorne Wilkie, 1921 (C.R., xxxv, 2 March 1921, 60)
FORD CITY, ONT., residence for Joseph Lapierre, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 April 1922, 7)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., residence and rectory for Rev. Father Neville, next to St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church, Argyle Road, 1923 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 20 Jan. 1923, 3)
WALKERVILLE, ONT, residence for Henry A. White, Niagara Street, between Kildare Road and Devonshire Road, 1924 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 23 June 1924, 5, illus. & descrip.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., The Walker Apartments (a.k.a. The Argyle Apartments), Argyle Road at Tuscarora Street, 1925; still standing in 2023 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 31 Dec. 1925, Section Three, p. 7, illus. & descrip.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., The Renfrew Apartments, Argyle Road near Wyandotte Street East, 1925; still standing in 2023 (Border Cities Star (Windsor), 29 Oct. 1927, Section Three, 8, list of works by Pennington & Boyde)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., 'Cooper Court', a large residence for James S. Cooper, Devonshire Road at Ontario Street, 1925 (Const., xix, Jan. 1926, 24-7, illus. & descrip.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., residence for Dr. Reginald B. Dobson, Devonshire Road, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 21 Mrch 1928, 67, t.c.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., residence for Charles W. Issacs, Willisted Crescent, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 27 Feb. 1929, 148)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., residence for A.E. Thompson, Willisted Crescent, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 14 Aug. 1929, 69)
J.C. PENNINGTON (works in Windsor)
ESSEX COUNTY SANATORIUM, major 3 storey addition, Prince Road, 1937-38; Central Kitchen Block, 1939-40 (C.R., vol. 50, 13 Oct. 1937, 32; Windsor Daily Star, 19 Feb. 1938, Section Two, p. 8, illus. & descrip.; and 22 Nov. 1937, Section Two, p. 9, t.c.; and 4 Jan. 1938, 3, illus.; and 6 March 1939, 3 & 8, descrip.; and 17 Feb. 1940, Section Two, p. 4, illus. & descrip.; Detroit Free Press, 4 March 1939, 7)
GLENGARDA URSULINE ACADEMY, a Roman Catholic Convent School, Riverside Drive, 1938-39 (C.R., li, 19 Oct. 1938, 54; Windsor Daily Star, 14 Oct. 1938, 3, descrip.; and 26 Nov. 1938, 8, descrip.; and 17 June 1939, 8, illus. & descrip.)
VICTORIA AVENUE, residence for Benjamin Matthews, between Pine Street and Grove Street, 1939 (Windsor Daily Star, 11 Sept. 1939, 3)
POOLE'S FISH MARKET, Wyandotte Street West at Pelissier Street, a two storey retail store for Max Goldhar, 1939-40 (Windsor Daily Star, 13 Dec. 1939, 6; and 27 June 1940, 23, illus. & descrip.)
MARIO'S RESTAURANT. Jackson Park at Ouellette Avenue, 1941 (Windsor Daily Star, 19 July 1941, 15, illus. & detailed descrip.)
BRITISH AMERICAN HOTEL Ouellette Avenue at Riverside Drive East, new Dining Hall and extensive interior alterations, 1941; demol. 1975 (Windsor Daily Star, 18 Oct. 1941, 13, illus. & descrip.)
HOTEL DIEU HOSPITAL, Ouellette Avenue, School of Nursing, with Nurse's Residence, 1944-45 (Windsor Daily Star, 21 July 1944, 5, descrip.; and 25 July 1944, 3, illus. & descrip.; and 23 Feb. 1946, Section Two, p. 3, illus. & descrip.)
CHRIST THE KING ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Dominion Boulevard at Grand Marais Road, South Windsor, 1946 (Windsor Daily Star, 15 Jan. 1946, 5)
JACKSON PARK, a new Tennis Clubhouse, 1946, to replace clubhouse which burned in 1945 (Windsor Daily Star, 14 March 1946, 3)
LONG HARDWARE LTD., Chatham Street West, retail store, 1946 (Windsor Daily Star, 26 Sept. 1946, 16)
ASSUMPTION COLLEGE, a new Science Building, 1947 (Windsor Daily Star, 12 Feb. 1947, 14, illus. & descrip.)
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING SHOP, Ouellette Avenue, a three storey retail store, 1947 (Windsor Daily Star, 22 March 1947, Section Two, p. 9, illus. & descrip.)
ST. THERESA ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH & RECTORY, Norman Road, 1947 (C.R., lx, Aug. 1947, 260; Windsor Daily Star, 11 Sept. 1947, 10, descrip.)
SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF CHARITY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, children's dormitory and school, Parent Avenue at Grand Marais Road, 1948 (C.R., lix, April 1948, 144)
ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH,, Ouellette Avenue, 1948-49 (Huron Church News, Feb. 1963)
VICTORIA AVENUE, at Shepherd Street West, residence for B. Matthews, 1950 (dwgs. Windsor City Archives)
J.C. PENNINGTON (works elsewhere)
KINGSVILLE, ONT., Epworth United Church, 1935-36 (C.R., xlix, 3 July 1935, 31)
PUCE, ONT., major addition to public school for S.S. No. 7, Maidstone, 1937 (Windsor Daily Star, 7 July 1937, Section Two, p. 9, t.c.)
HARROW, ONT., Town Hall, 1938 (C.R., li, 3 Aug. 1938, 29, t.c.; Windsor Daily Star, 9 July 1938, Section Two, p. 8, descrip.; and 27 Jan. 1939, Section Two, p. 6, illus. & descrip.)
AMHERSTBURG, ONT., Museum of the War of 1812, near Laird Avenue, on the site of the original Fort Malden, designed "....in the French Chateau style", 1938-39 (Windsor Daily Star, 2 Dec. 1938, 5, descrip.; Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 1938, 3)
MERSEA TOWNSHIP, Essex County, a public school at Ridge, Ont., 1941 (Windsor Daily Star, 17 July 1941, 31, t.c.)
LEAMINGTON, ONT., Ruthven United Church, Mersea Road East, 1941-42 (Windsor Daily Star, 11 April 1942, Section Two, p. 6, descrip.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., Metropolitan General Hospital, major addition, 1943-44 (Windsor Daily Star, 13 March 1943, 3)
KINGSVILLE, ONT., Lutheran Church, 1945 (Kingsville Through the Years 1783-1952, 47)
TILBURY, ONT., Roman Catholic School, 1946 (Windsor Daily Star, 23 Feb. 1946, Section Two, p. 7, t.c.)
HARROW, ONT., Roman Catholic school, 1946 (Windsor Daily Star, 10 April 1946, Section Two, p. 8, t.c.)
KINGSVILLE, ONT., Roman Catholic School, 1946 (Windsor Daily Star, 14 June 1946, Section Two, p. 2, t.c.)
ESSEX, ONT., Roman Catholic school, 1946 (Windsor Daily Star, 4 July 1946, 16, t.c.)
HARROW, ONT., J.H. Madill Funeral Home & Chapel, King Street, 1946 (Windsor Daily Star, 3 Aug. 1946, 11, illus. & descrip. in advert.)
BIG POINT, ONT., Roman Catholic church and rectory, 1949 (C.R., lxii, March 1949, 137)
SARNIA TOWNSHIP, ONT., Roman Catholic Separate School, for S.S. No. 15, 1949 (C.R., lxii, May 1949, 164)
PUCE, ONT., public school for S.S. No. 7, Maidstone, 1949 (Windsor Daily Star, 25 July 1949, Section Two, p. 11, t.c.)
CHATHAM, ONT., Canada & Dominion Sugar Co., office and warehouse, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, Aug. 1950, 241)
SANDWICH EAST TOWNSHIP, ONT., Roman Catholic Separate School, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, Nov. 1950, 120)
COMPETITIONS
SANDWICH, ONT., Essex County Municipal Building, 1914. Pennington was one of three local architects from Windsor who submitted plans for this building (Detroit Free Press, 29 Jan. 1914, 12).
KITCHENER, ONT., This architect was one of 4 designers who were asked to submit plans for the new Collegiate Institute & Technical School at Kitchener in 1919 (News Record [Kitchener], 23 Dec. 1919, 6). The winner was Stephen B. Coon & Son of Toronto, and his design was later built in 1922-23.
WINDSOR, ONT., John A. Campbell Public School, Hall Avenue at Tecumseh Road, 1925. Pennington & Boyde were one of seven local architects who submitted designs for this large 24 room school (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 2 Sept. 1925, Section Two, p. 8, detailed analysis of competition). They received Third Prize of $250 for their effort, and a Fifth Prize of $100 for another alternative design which they submitted. The winners were Nichols, Sheppard & Masson
WINDSOR, ONT., new Collegiate Institute, Tecumseh Road East, between Mercer Street and Highland Avenue, 1925. Shortly after the competition for the John Campbell School noted above, the Board of Education staged another competition for public Collegiate School (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 21 Nov. 1925, 5). Pennington & Boyde were awarded Third Prize of $250. The winners were Cameron & Ralston, but the site was later occupied by H. Guppy Public School, designed by a different architect.