EWART, John (1788-1856)
(biography in preparation)
(works in Toronto unless noted)
(with Dr. W.W. Baldwin) HOME DISTRICT COURT HOUSE & GAOL, King Street East at Church Street, 1823 (OA, Minutes of Quarter Sessions, Home District, 17 May 1823; M. MacRae & A. Adamson, Cornerstones of Order, 1983, 40-2, illus.)
ST. PAUL'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Power Street at Queen Street East, 1823; demol. 1903 (A. Sylvester, Sketches of Toronto, 1858, 67; M. MacRae & A. Adamson, Hallowed Walls, 1975, 82-3, illus.)
LONDON, ONT., Middlesex County Court House, Ridout Street, 1827-30 (Gore Gazette [Ancaster], 4 Aug. 1827, descrip.; Colonial Advocate [Toronto], 14 July 1831, descrip.; M. MacRae & A. Adamson, Cornerstones of Order, 1983, 95-8, illus.; H. Kalman, History of Canadian Architecture, 1994, 274-5, illus. & descrip.)
UPPER CANADA COLLEGE, King Street West at Simcoe Street, 1829-30 (Univ. of Toronto Archives, Account Books for King's College and Upper Canada College, cxxxii, 136; G. Dickson & G. Adam, History of Upper Canada College 1829-1892, 1893, 194-6)
OSGOODE HALL, East Wing, 1829-32; portico added in 1844 by Henry B. Lane (Law Society of Upper Canada Minutes, 24 June 1829, 19 Nov. 1831; Kingston Chronicle, 29 Aug. 1830, 2, descrip.; A. Sylvester, Sketches of Toronto, 1858, 29, descrip.; M. MacRae & A. Adamson, Cornerstones of Order, 1983, 46-9, illus.; W. Dendy & W. Kilbourn, Toronto Observed, 1986, 71-7, illus.)
ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Church Street at Adelaide Street East, 1830-31; spire 1840 by John G. Howard; demol. 1877 (J.R. Robertson, Landmarks of Toronto, 1904, iv, 121-3, illus. & descrip.; Eric Arthur, Toronto - No Mean City, 1964, 65, illus. & descrip., M. MacRae & A. Adamson, Hallowed Walls, 1975, 85-7, illus.; H. Kalman, History of Canadian Architecture, 1994, 182-3, illus. & descrip.)
INFANT SCHOOL, 1832 (Courier of Upper Canada, 26 Feb. 1832, 2, t.c.)
KING STREET, at Yonge Street, wholesale stores for Mr. Ware, 1833 (Brockville Recorder, 11 Oct. 1833)
COMPETITIONS
TORONTO, ONT., Parliament Building, Simcoe Place, Front Street West, 1826. Ewart submitted a design in competition with Dr. William W. Baldwin, John Ford, Francis Hall and Joseph Nixon. The design by Nixon was declared winner but was not built, and a scheme by Thomas Rogers was eventually completed (OA, Upper Canada Sundries, Vol. 80, 43443-46, letter dated 12 Dec. 1826; E. Firth, The Town of York 1815-34, 1966, 22)