HORSEY, Edward (1809-1869)
(biography in preparation)
(biog. and port. in Jennifer McKendry, Architects Working in the Kingston Region 1820-1920, 2019, 63-66, illus.)
(works in Kingston unless noted)
BROCK STREET, 'Balescourt', a pair of houses including a residence for Henry Horsey, architect, 1843 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural and Historic Significance, ii, 1973, 114-16, illus.)
BROCK STREET, at Clergy Street, 'Elizabeth Cottage', residence for Elizabeth Horsey and Dr. Fyfe Fowler, 1846 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural and Historic Significance, ii, 1973, 108-13, illus.; M. MacRae & A. Adamson, Ancestral Roof, 1963, 164-5, illus.; H. Kalman, History of Canadian Architecture, 1994, 278, illus. & descrip.; J. McKendry, 'A Reassessment of the Architectural History of Elizabeth Cottage, Kingston' in Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, xxxv, No. 2, 2010, 27-34, illus.)
CATARAQUI RIVER BRIDGE, 1844 (Historic Kingston, xi, March 1963, 25)
KINGSTON PENITENTIARY, several buildings from 1847 to 1870, including:
South (Main) Workshop Building, 1848 (Daily British Whig [Kingston], 12 April 1848, 2, descrip.);
Hospital Wing of the Main Cellblock, 1847-49;
East Workshops, 1855-59;
West Workshops, 1858-59; rebuilt by James Adams, 1876-82; altered 1926-38 for new shops and a school;
Dome and Rotunda for the Main Building, 1859-61; burned 1954 and rebuilt to a different profile (Canada, Sessional Papers, First Annual Report of the Board of Inspectors of Asylums & Prisons, 1860, No. 24);
Stables and Carriage House, 1861; demol. 1955;
Farm House, 1861; demol.;
Engine House addition to the South Workshops, 1866;
North Lodge and Gate House, major addition, 1867;
Warden's Residence, outside the walls of the Prison, 1869-73; completed under the direction of H.H. Horsey and now the Penitentiary Museum (Daily British Whig [Kingston], 14 May 1870, 2, descrip.);
Solitary Confinement Building, inside the walls of the Prison, 1870 (Daily British Whig [Kingston], 14 May 1870, 2);
(inf. from Dana Johnson, Ottawa; J. McKendry 'The Early History of the Provincial Penitentiary, Kingston' in the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin, xiv, Dec. 1989, 97; J. McKendry, Portsmouth Village Kingston - An Illustrated History, 2010, 44-5, illus. & descrip.)
PENITENTIARY FARM, large stone storage warehouse, 1868 (Canada, Sessional Papers, 1870, No. 5, First Annual Report of the Directors of Penitentiaries for 1868, 13-14, descrip.)
EDWARD HORSEY & SON
FRONTENAC COUNTY COURT HOUSE & JAIL, Court Street at West Street, 1855-58; burned 1875; rebuilt by John Power; jail demol. 1973-74 (Leader [Toronto], 20 July 1855, 4, t.c.; Daily British Whig [Kingston], 16 Dec. 1858, 2; Canadian Illustrated News, xi, 3 April 1875, 219, illus.; M. Angus, Old Stones of Kingston, 1966, 58-9, illus.; Kingston, Buildings of Architectural and Historic Significance, i, 1971, 28-32, illus.; V. Stewart, 'Justice Done: The Restitution of the Frontenac County Court House within the Classical Tradition', in Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin, xxvii, No. 3-4, Dec. 2002, 29-34, illus.)
NAPANEE, ONT., Town Hall, 1856 (Lennox & Addington County Museum, Benson Papers, Letters 2936-39, 4289-90)
(attributed) JAILER'S RESIDENCE, Barrie Street, adjacent to the Frontenac County Jail, 1858 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural and Historic Significance, i, 37-9, illus.)
WOLFE ISLAND, Township Hall, 1859 (Wolfe Island Township, Minutes of Council for 7 June 1859)
MILTON, ONT., Peel County Jail, adjacent to the Court House, 1860 (dwgs. at OA, Acc. 13140)
OTTAWA, ONT., Carleton County Jail and Jailer's Residence, Nicholas Street, 1860; completed in 1861 by Henry H. Horsey (Union [Ottawa], 29 Aug. 1860, 3, t.c.; Ottawa Citizen, 26 July 1861, 2, extensive descrip.)