LINES, Roland Walter (1876-1916)
(biography in preparation)
The Provincial Archives of Alberta in Edmonton holds a microfilm record of many sets of architectural drawings prepared by Roland W. Lines between 1910 and 1914. These are held in the Blakey Collection, PAA, Acc. 67.100.
Roland W. Lines (works in Edmonton)
POWELL & HANDLY CO., Fraser Street at Rice Street, 1907 (Edmonton b.p. 857, 21 Nov. 1907)
NORWOOD SCHOOL, Norwood Boulevard at Kirkness Street, 1908-09 (Edmonton b.p. 906, 26 Dec. 1907; Edmonton Journal, 8 Feb. 1909, 1; Const., iii, Dec. 1909, 104, illus.)
FIRE HALL NO. 2, 104th Street near Jasper Avenue, 1908 (list of works in the Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 13 June 1908, 10)
STRATHCONA HIGH SCHOOL, 72nd Avenue at 104th Street, begun by Johnson & Lines in 1907; completed by Roland Lines in 1908-09 (Medicine Hat News, 31 Oct. 1907, 6, descrip.; Edmonton Journal, 4 Feb. 1909, 7; C.R., xxiii, 23 June 1909, 20, t.c.; Const., iii, Dec. 1909, 116, illus.)
FRASER'S FLATS PUBLIC SCHOOL, Christibelle Street at Richards Street, 1909 (Edmonton School Board Archives, correspondence from R.W. Lines)
EDMONTON CITY POWER STATION, Fourth Street near Calgary Avenue, c. 1910 (Edmonton Capital, 16 July 1910, 1; NAC, MG30, B86, Vol. 16, item 8, Catalogue of the Fenestra Steel Sash Co., 44, list of works)
HOTEL CECIL, Jasper Avenue West at 104th Street, major addition, 1910 (Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 14 Feb. 1910, 6, t.c.; dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
6th STREET, residence for Robert Mays, c. 1910 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
115th STREET, residence for Edward C. Dobell, c. 1910 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
CANADA PERMANENT BUILDING, 100th Street near 101A Avenue, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 16 March 1910, 26, t.c.; Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 2 April 1910, 1, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. in Blakey Coll.; watercolour presentation dwg. in PAA, Acc. 7l.361)
11th STREET, at Hardisty Avenue, residence for Robert M. Andrew, c. 1910 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
6th STREET, residence for Alfred Driscoll, c, 1910 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
6th STREET, residence for James C. Cornwall, c. 1910 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
6th STREET, residence for John J. Anderson, 1910 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
ROYAL NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE HEADQUARTERS, residence for the Superintendent, 1910 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
23rd STREET, residence for Kenneth B. Mackenzie, c. 1910 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
UNION BANK, Jasper Avenue East near 100th Street, 1910 (Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 7 July 1910, 1, illus. & descrip.; and 3 May 1911, 1, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
EDMONTON HIGH SCHOOL (later called VICTORIA HIGH SCHOOL), 102nd Street, north of Churchill Avenue, 1910-11 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 16 July 1910, 44, illus. & descrip.; Edmonton Capital, 13 April 1911, 1 & 4, illus. & descrip.)
ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL, Kingsway at 102nd Street, 1910-12; additions, 1914; (C.R., xxiv, 30 March 1910, 24; xxviii, and 8 July 1914, 77; Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 5 April 1910, 1, illus. & descrip.; and 18 Dec. 1911, 1, descrip.; Edmonton Journal, 19 April 1912, 6, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
11th STREET, residence for Cornelius Gallagher, 1911 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
EXHIBITION GROUNDS, 112th Avenue at 78th Street, Livestock Pavilion, 1911-12 (Edmonton Capital, 20 Feb. 1911, 1, descrip.; C.R., xxv, 12 April 1911, 53; Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 24 July 1911, 1, illus. & descrip.; D. Person & C. Routledge, Edmonton: Portrait of a City, 1981, 126, illus.)
NORTHERN HOTEL, Namayo Avenue at Rice Street, 1911 (Edmonton Capital, 1 June 1911, 6, descrip.; and 8 July 1911, 1, descrip.; C.R., xxv, 26 July 1911, 61)
18th STREET, at Victoria Avenue, residence for Lorne M. York, 1912 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
127th STREET, at 104th Avenue and Stoney Plain Road, large residence for Oliver M. Biggar, 1912 (Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 5 Jan. 1912, 6, t.c.)
4th STREET, warehouse for D.R. Kerr, 1912 (Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 2 May 1912, 10, t.c.)
ROYAL NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE HEADQUARTERS, 101A Avenue at 95th Street, 1912-13 (Edmonton, Historical Walking Tours of Downtown Edmonton, 1988, 56, illus.; dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
CANADIAN CONSOLIDATED RUBBER CO., 104th Street at 102nd Avenue, a five storey warehouse for D.R. Ker, 1912; burned Jan. 1913; rebuilt (Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 4 July 1912, 5, descrip.; Edmonton, Historical Walking Tours of Downtown Edmonton, 1988, 27, illus.)
EDMONTON COUNTRY CLUB, clubhouse, 1913 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
NURSES HOME, for the Royal Alexandra Hospital, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 25 June 1913, 67; dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, Jasper Avenue near 100th Street, 1913-14 (C.R., xxvii, 26 Nov. 1913, 68; dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
123rd STREET, residence for the Manager of the Bank of British North America, 1914 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
ST. JOSEPH'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL, 5th Street West, between 2nd and 3rd Avenue North, basement & crypt 1914-17; construction halted after the death of Lines in 1916, then resumed in 1924 at a new site, following the new plans prepared by Edward Underwood (Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 28 March 1914, 6, descrip.)
BOYLE BLOCK, 97th Street at 110 A Avenue, a three storey apartment block for Hon. J.R. Boyle, 1914 (Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 24 June 1914, 3, descrip.; Edmonton b.p. 817, 1914)
Roland W. Lines (works elsewhere)
DAYSLAND, ALTA., public school, 1908 (C.R., xix, 29 April 1908, 17, t.c.)
VERMILION, ALTA., public school, 1908 (list of works in the Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 13 June 1908, 10)
PRINCE ALBERT, SASK., High School, West 20th Street, 1908 (C.R., xxii, 3 June 1908, 26, t.c.)
DAYSLAND, ALTA., Providence General Hospital, 1908 (C.R., xxii, 28 Oct. 1908, 23)
CLARESHOLM, ALTA., major addition to public school, 1909 (Claresholm Review, 13 May 1909, 1; and 27 May 1909, 1)
LETHBRIDGE, ALTA., public school, 1909 (Claresholm Review, 13 May 1909, 1)
WETASKIWIN, ALTA., Alexandra Public School, 1909 (Wetaskiwin Times, 15 July 1909, 1, article and t.c.)
LEDUC, ALTA., King George School, 1912 (Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 6 May 1912, 7, illus.)
PRINCE ALBERT, SASK., Union Bank, Central Avenue at 12th Street West, 1913 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
FORT MACLEOD, ALTA., public school, c. 1914 (list of works in R.I.B.A. Application, dated 19 March 1914)
LAC LA BICHE, ALTA., Hotel for the Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Co., 1915 (dwgs. in Blakey Coll.)
COMPETITIONS
SASKATOON, SASK., major addition to Alexandra Public School, Avenue G near 20th Street, 1908. Roland Lines was one of at least six architects from the Prairies who submitted a design for large institutional project (Daily Phoenix [Saskatoon], 24 April 1908, 6). His proposal was set aside and David Webster of Saskatoon was declared as the winner.
SASKATOON, SASK., Nutana Collegiate, 11th Street at Victoria Avenue, 1909. Undeterred by his loss in Saskatoon during the previous year, Lines was one of 25 competitors from as far away as Vancouver and Toronto who sent in designs for this major commission (Daily Phoenix [Saskatoon], 12 June 1909, 12), The four finalists included Roland Lines, but the First Prize was later awarded to Storey & Van Egmond of Regina.