LANGTON, William Alexander (1854-1933)
(biography in preparation)
(works in Toronto unless noted)
ST. MARGARET'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Spadina Avenue near Queen Street West, 1889-90; altered with new commercial facade c. 1930 (J.R. Robertson, Landmarks of Toronto, iv, 106-07, illus. & descrip.)
ST. STEPHEN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS ANGLICAN CHURCH, Bellevue Avenue at College Street, additions and alterations, 1890; still standing in 2023 (C.R., i, 5 July 1890, 3, t.c.)
CANADA PUBLISHING CO., Wellington Street West near Yonge Street, alterations to warehouse, 1893 (C.R., iv, 30 Nov. 1893, 1, t.c.)
ASSINIBOIA, MAN., design for a church, 1893 (Designs for Village, Town and Country Churches, 1893, 10-12, illus. & descrip.; Barry Magrill, A Commerce of Taste: Church Architecture in Canada 1867-1914, pub. 2012, 101-102, illus. &, descrip.)
LOWTHER AVENUE, near Admiral Road, residence for George F. Burton, 1894 (C.R., v, 26 July 1894, 1)
BERLIN, ONT., (now Kitchener), G.B. Ryan & Co., retail store, King Street, 1897-98 (C.R., viii, 14 Oct. 1897, 2, t.c.; C.A.B., xi, Aug. 1898, illus.)
BEDFORD ROAD, near Elgin Avenue, residence for Archibald H. Campbell, 1899 (C.A.B., xiii, Jan. 1900, 22, illus. & descrip.)
DUNBAR AVENUE, near South Drive, residence for Hugh H. Langton, c. 1902 (Toronto Architectural Eighteen Club Catalogue, 1902, Item 269)
BISMARK AVENUE, residence for Prof. A. Halliday Douglas, 1902 (C.A.B., xv, Aug. 1902, illus.)
BOBCAYGEON, ONT., Hill Croft School for Boys, 1907-08 (Const., ii, Nov. 1908, 48-50, illus.)
MACKENZIE AVENUE, near Hawthorne Avenue, residence for Mrs. Eleanor Street, 1908 (Toronto b.p. 12585, 18 Sept. 1908; Const., ii, Sept. 1909, 41-3, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. at OA, Sproatt & Rolph Coll.)
ST. MARY THE VIRGIN ANGLICAN CHURCH, Westmoreland Avenue near Bloor Street West, 1910; altered 2011-12 (C.R., xxv, 28 June 1911, 58; Const., v, Jan. 1912, 85-7, illus.; National Post [Toronto], 16 Feb. 2013, PH1 & PH3, illus.)
WYCHWOOD PARK, residence for Dr. Edmund M. Walker, Alcina Avenue, 1912 (Toronto b.p. 32291, 5 Jan. 1912)
ETOBICOKE, ONT., Toronto Golf Club House, near Long Branch, overlooking the Etobicoke River, 1912 (Telegram [Toronto], 12 Feb. 1912, 15, illus. & descrip.; Const., v, April 1912, 66-7, illus.)
WARREN ROAD, near Frybrook Road, residence for Frederick Mowat, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 5 Nov. 1913, 74)
BOBCAYGEON, ONT., Bank of British North America, 1913-14 (Watchman-Warder [Lindsay], 2 Oct. 1913, 8; dwgs. at Bank of Montreal, Premises Div., Toronto)
GALT, ONT., Grand River Golf & Country Club, Roseville Road near Dickie Settlement Road, major additions to the Clubhouse, 1915 (Berlin News Record [Kitchener], 1 May 1915, 11, descrip.)
KITCHENER, ONT., Waterloo Pioneers Memorial Tower, Lookout Lane, on the east side of the Grand River, overlooking Homer Watson Park, 1925-26 (dwgs. at Kitchener Public Library, Waterloo Pioneers Memorial Tower Coll., MC 113; Parks Canada, Canadian Register of Historic Places, designated 22 April 1992; inf. Karl Kessler, Kitchener)
SELECTED ARTICLES
'Principles of Design', with comments by Frank Darling and David B. Dick, in C.A.B., x, Feb. 1897, 31-5
'The Advancement of Public Taste in Architecture', in C.A.B., xii, Feb. 1899, 28-9
'The Method of H.H. Richardson', in C.A.B., xiii, Feb. 1900, 28-9, with illus.
'Library Design', in C.A.B., xv, April 1902, 47-8
'City Planning', in C.A.B., xv, April 1902, 49-51
'A Study of the Basis of Professional Etiquette', in C.A.B., xv, May 1902, 59-60
'Office Management', in C.A.B., xv, Dec. 1902, 143-4; xvi, Jan. 1903, 26-7
'High Building', in C.A.B., April 1903, 55-6
'Apartment Life', in C.A.B., May, 1903, 77-8
'Art Nouveau', in C.A.B., xvii, Jan. 1904, with illus.
'Meditations in a Church', in C.A.B., xvii, March 1904, 51-3, with illus.
'Wren's Churches', in C.A.B., xvii, June 1904, 100-01, illus.; Aug. 1904, 131-2, illus.
'Plan of Improvements to Toronto', with proposal for the Waterfront, 1906, in C.A.B., xix, Feb. 1906, 18-20, descrip. and illus. plates
'The Tendency of Our Architecture', in The Lamps (pub. by the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto), Dec. 1911, 7
'Professional Ethics', in Const., x, Sept. 1917, 345-8
'Bishop Strachan School Chapel', a critique by Langton of the work of Sproatt & Rolph, in Const., xix, May 1926, 138-44
COMPETITIONS
TORONTO, ONT., St. Hilda's College, University of Toronto, 1894. W.A. Langton exhibited his architectural drawings for this project at the Montreal Art Association Autumn Exhibition in 1894 (Montreal Daily Star, 5 Oct. 1894, 6, list of exhibitors). His drawing was "....a charming sketch, very scholarly, quaint and peaceful looking place". This may have been one of several designs submitted in an earlier competition in Toronto.