GATES, Herbert Elliot (1874-1944)
(biography in preparation)
HALIFAX
SPRING GARDEN ROAD, additions and alterations to residence for A.P. Torrens, 1898 (C.R., ix, 16 Nov. 1898, 2)
W.H. DONOVAN CO., Granville Street, major additions to factory, 1898; 1902 (C.R., ix, 16 Nov. 1898, 2; xiii, 20 Aug. 1902, 2)
YOUNG AVENUE, residence for F.W. Green, 1900 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 25 April 1900, 1, descrip.)
LORNE TERRACE, in the North End, residence for M.O. Crowell, 1900 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 25 April 1900, 1, descrip.)
SOUTH STREET, residence for Miss Ada Ryan, 1901 (C.R., xii, 4 Sept. 1901, 2, t.c.)
WILLIAM STREET, residence for H.R. Cameron, 1901 (C.R., xii, 4 Sept. 1901, 2, t.c.)
UNION BANK, Hollis Street at Prince Street, major addition and extensive interior alterations, 1902; addition, 1906 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 8 Feb. 1902, 16, descrip.; C.R., xiii, 19 Feb. 1902, 5; xvii, 20 June 1906, 4)
SOUTH STREET, apartment house for Mrs. Teresa Gibson, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 12 Feb. 1902, 2)
BRUNSWICK STREET, at Gerrrish Street, double tenement house with 4 flats, for James Penny & Son, 1902 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 15 March 1902, 5; C.R., xiii, 28 May 1902, 2)
BEECH STREET SCHOOL, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 20 Aug. 1902, 2)
QUINPOOL ROAD PUBLIC SCHOOL, Quinpool Road, west of Oxford Street, 1902-03 (Halifax Herald, 4 Oct. 1902, 9, t.c.; Evening Mail [Halifax], 30 Oct. 1903, 4, detailed descrip.)
SOUTH STREET, apartment house for John Barnes, 1903 (dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
GOTTINGEN STREET, major addition to residence for Dr. Arthur C. Hawkins, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 24 May 1905, 5)
PROVINCIAL EXHIBITION GROUNDS, The Arts Building, 1905; Fisheries Building, 1905; Mines Building, 1905; new facade for the Horticultural Building, 1905; new facade and major addition to the Machinery Building, 1905; Office and Entrance Building, 1906 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 17 June 1905, 1; and 21 July 1905, 10, with descrip. of each building; and 15 Sept. 1905, 8, descrip. of the Women's Building; and 7 June 1906, 5, descrip. of the Fisheries Building; C.R., xvi, 28 June 1905, 2; xvii, and 30 May 1906, 4, t.c.; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.; Industrial Advocate [Sydney], x, Aug. 1905, 22, illus. & descrip.; Morning Chronicle [Halifax], 31 May 1906, 7)
T.H. & W.T. FRANCIS CO., Argyle Street, addition, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 28 June 1905, 2)
THE PARADE, cabmen's shelter, 1906 (dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
TOBIN STREET, residence for Allan W. Duffus, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 20 June 1906, 4)
NOVA SCOTIA TELEPHONE CO., Hollis Street at Salter Street, office building, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 1 May 1907, 1, t.c.; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
PLEASANT STREET, at Albert Street, major addition to residence for H.E. Hill, 1907 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 13 June 1907, 2)
HALIFAX COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Spring Garden Road, major addition, 1907; with another addition, 1929 (C.R., xviii, 10 July 1907, 6, t.c.; Evening Mail [Halifax], 25 Jan. 1929, 3 and 14; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
GLOBE LAUNDRY, Buckingham Street, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 25 Sept. 1907, 2, t.c.)
COBURG ROAD, residence for F.W. Hart, 1907 (dwgs. at PANS, Langille Coll.)
NOVA SCOTIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE, Spring Garden Road, 1908 (Morning Chronicle [Halifax], 1 Jan. 1908, 1 and 2, illus.; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
TOWER ROAD, at College Street, residence for Richard G. Beazley, 1908 (dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
EASTERN TRUST CO., Hollis Street, additions and alterations, 1908 (C.R., xix, 8 Jan. 1908, 19)
SACRED HEART ROMAN CATHOLIC CONVENT, Spring Garden Road near Summer Street, major addition for a school house and assembly hall, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 20 Jan. 1909, 20; Charlottetown Guardian, 4 Feb. 1909, 8, descrip.; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
NOVA SCOTIA TELEPHONE CO., a brick exchange building, 1912 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 20 Feb. 1912, 12, t.c.)
WENTZELL'S LTD., Barrington Street, commercial block, 1912 (Halifax Herald, 30 July 1912, 2, t.c.)
MOTT STREET, residence for D. Bellefontain, 1912 (dwgs. at PANS, Langille Coll.)
ST. MARY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC COLLEGE, Windsor Street, major addition of dining hall and dormitory, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 6 Aug. 1913, 64; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
N.H. PHINNEY & CO. MUSIC STORE, Barrington Street, retail store, 1914 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 27 June 1914, 12, descrip.)
COBURG ROAD, near Oxford Street, residence for Geoffrey J. Boak, 1914 (Halifax b.p., 1914)
CASINO THEATRE, Gottingen Street, 1914 (C.R., xxviii, 8 July 1914, 80)
ST. MARY'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE & BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, Barrington Street, major extension of the assembly hall, 1915 (C.R., xxix, 10 March 1915, 58)
ST. PATRICK'S ROMAN CATHOLIC BOY'S SCHOOL, Brunswick Street, 1917-18 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 9 Jan. 1917, 8, descrip.; C.R., xxxi, 31 Jan. 1917, 41; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
(with Stevens & Lee) VICTORIA GENERAL HOSPITAL, Tower Road, major 4 storey addition facing South Street, 1920-22; large Tuberculosis Hospital, 1920; Dormitory, Morris Street, 1922 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 3 March 1919, 13, t.c.; and 6 July 1920, 11; and 6 March 1922, 6, illus. & descrip.; Montreal Daily Star, 10 July 1920, 19; C.R., xxxiv,14 July 1920, 49, t.c.; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.; inf. from G. Shutlak, Halifax)
PILKINGTON BROS., Upper Water Street, warehouse, 1920 (dwgs. at PANS, Langille Coll.)
LARCH STREET, flats for L.G. Esther, 1923 (dwgs. at PANS, Langille Coll.)
PATHOLOGICAL BUILDING, Morris Street, a three storey block, located "......beside the Nurse's Home at the Victoria General Hospital", 1924 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 31 May 1924, 2, descrip.)
VICTORIA ROAD, residence for Frank Hope, 1924 (dwgs. at PANS, Langille Coll.)
INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL, Morris Street, 1927-28 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 25 Jan. 1927, 1; and 13 July 1928, 20; C.R., xli, 9 Feb. 1927, 47; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
McDOUGALL & COWANS BROKERAGE LTD., Hollis Street, new facade and extensive interior alterations, 1928 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 12 April 1928, 24; and 16 April 1928, 13, illus. & descrip.)
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, Morris Street, a new 3 storey Nurse's Residence, 1928 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 12 June 1928, 12, descrip.)
DARTMOUTH
ST. JAMES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Portland Street at Canal Street, a manse for the church, 1894 (C.R., v, 9 Aug. 1894, 2)
PLEASANT STREET, residence for James Simmonds, 1894; addition, 1905 (C.R., v, 9 Aug. 1894, 2; xvi, 28 June 1905, 2)
DUNDAS STREET, barn for Dr. A.B. Smith, 1896 (Atlantic Weekly [Dartmouth], 8 Aug. 1896, 3)
LOWER WATER STREET, two houses for John Forsyth, 1897 (Atlantic Weekly [Dartmouth], 10 July 1897, 3)
COLE HARBOUR ROAD, pair of houses for John Simmonds, 1897 (Atlantic Weekly [Dartmouth], 28 Aug. 1897, 3)
PLEASANT STREET, residence for J.L. Wilson, 1897 (Atlantic Weekly [Dartmouth], 16 Oct. 1897, 3)
PORTLAND STREET, residence for William Pierce, 1897-98 (Atlantic Weekly [Dartmouth], 11 Dec. 1897, 3)
PORTLAND STREET, residence for B.A. Weston, 1897-98 (Atlantic Weekly [Dartmouth], 11 Dec. 1897, 3)
NORTH STREET, residence for Judge Arthur C. Johnstone, 1898 (C.R., ix, 4 Jan. 1898, 3)
WATER STREET, commercial block for C.E. Peveril, 1898 (C.R., ix, 16 Nov. 1898, 2)
WATER STREET, two stores with lodge rooms above for Allen McDonald, 1899 (C.R., x, 12 July 1899, 2)
PLEASANT STREET, at Albert Street, residence for Edwin J.H. Pauley, 1900 (Halifax Herald, 3 Jan. 1900, 8; C.R., xi, 21 Feb. 1900, 2)
NOVA SCOTIA HOSPITAL, Pleasant Street, addition, 1901 (C.R., xii, 29 May 1901, 3)
FERRY TERMINAL, Water Street at Portland Street, for the Dartmouth Ferry Commission, 1902; with new Waiting Hall for passengers, 1906 (Halifax Herald, 18 Nov. 1901, 4, descrip.; C.R., xiii, 12 Feb. 1902, 2; Evening Mail [Halifax], 6 March 1906, 2, descrip.)
ACADIA SUGAR CO., house for G.A. Ormon, company engineer, 1902 (C.R., xiv, 17 June 1903, 2)
INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 28 May 1902, 2)
PORTLAND STREET, residence for Charles E. Pearce, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 28 May 1902, 2)
BANOOK CANOE CLUB, a new boat house and ballroom, on the shores of First Lake, 1903 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 13 Aug. 1903, 2, descrip.)
UNION BANK OF HALIFAX, Water Street, "...on the McDonald property", 1904 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 24 March 1904, 2, descrip.; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
ERSKINE STREET, addition to residence for I. W. Vidito, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 24 May 1905, 5)
COLIN McNAB & CO., Portland Street, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 21 Nov. 1906, 4)
FREEMASON'S MASONIC HALL, Octerloney Street at Wentworth Street, 1909 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 5 Aug. 1909, 3, descrip.; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.; E. Pacey & A. Comiter, Landmarks: Historic Builidngs of Nova Scotia, 1994, 148-9, illus.)
NOVA SCOTIA HOSPITAL, Pleasant Street, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 9 Aug. 1911, 60; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
TEASDALE & FOOTE, Prince Albert Road, auto showroom and garage, 1930 (dwgs. at PANS, Langille Coll.)
ELSEWHERE
WOODSIDE, N.S., public school, 1894 (C.R., v, 9 Aug. 1894, 2)
CHARLO, N.B., a church, 1898 (Atlantic Weekly [Dartmouth], 23 July 1898, 3)
LIVERPOOL, N.S., Town Hall, 1901-02 (C.R., xii, 8 May 1901, 2, t.c.; Canada, Town Halls of Canada, 1987, 268, 270 ff, illus.)
CHESTER, N.S., public school, 1901 (C.R., xii, 29 May 1901, 3; Halifax Herald, 13 June 1901, 8, t.c.)
KENTVILLE, N.S., addition to railway station for the Dominion Atlantic Railway, 1902 (inf. from Robert Hunter, Ottawa)
BRIDGETOWN, N.S., public school, 1902 (Halifax Herald, 18 April 1902, 10, t.c.)
SYDNEY, N.S., warehouse for H.W. Wentzell & Co., 1902 (C.R., xiii, 28 May 1902, 2)
BADDECK, N.S., additions to school, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 20 Aug. 1902, 3)
PARRSBORO, N.S., Union Bank of Halifax, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 17 June 1903, 2; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
ROCKINGHAM, N.S., residence for George E. Boak, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 17 June 1903, 2)
TRURO, N.S., College of Agriculture, College Road, 1903; Dairy Building, 1908 (C.R., xiv, 17 June 1903, 2; xxii, 4 Nov. 1908, 25, t.c.; dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
TRURO, N.S., Nova Scotia Telephone Co., 1905 (C.R., xvi, 24 May 1905, 5)
ADVOCATE, N.S., public school, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 24 May 1905, 5)
AMHERST, N.S., The Maritime Block, Church Street, a large 3 storey commercials block for Rhodes, Fillmore & Morris, 1906 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 28 July 1906, 4, descrip.)
AMHERST, N.S., Nova Scotia Telephone Co., LaPlanche Street at Victoria Street, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 11 April 1906, 4, t.c.; Evening Mail [Halifax], 28 July 1906, 4, descrip., but lacking attribution)
AMHERST, N.S., residence for Mrs. George Hewson, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 20 June 1906, 2)
NEW GLASGOW, N.S., residence for W.D. Chisholm, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 20 June 1906, 2)
NORTH SYDNEY, N.S., Eastern Telephone Co., 1906 (C.R., xvii, 21 Nov. 1906, 4)
WOODSIDE, N.S., six cottages for the Acadia Sugar Refining Co., 1906 (C.R., xvii, 21 Nov. 1906, 4)
WINDSOR, N.S., residence for H.W. Sangster, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 21 Nov. 1906, 4)
CHESTER, N.S., residence for Rev. Walsh, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 21 Nov. 1906, 4)
PICTOU, N.S., Nova Scotia Telephone Co., 1907 (C.R., xviii, 13 March 1907, 4, t.c.)
NEW GLASGOW, N.S., residence for R.M. McGregor, 1909 (dwgs. at PANS, Langille Coll.)
NEW GLASGOW, N.S., public school, 1910 (Halifax Herald, 20 Aug. 1910, 16, t.c.)
YARMOUTH, N.S., Nova Scotia Telephone Co., Central Street, exchange building, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 13 Sept. 1911, 62, t.c.; Evening Mail [Halifax], 16 Sept. 1911, 16, t.c.; and 20 Feb. 1912, 12, t.c.)
WOLFVILLE, N.S., Dominion Atlantic Railway Station, 1912 (dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
AMHERST, N.S., Maritime Telegraph & Telephone Co. Building, 1912 (Evening Mail [Halifax], 25 Sept. 1912, 2, t.c.)
SYDNEY, N.S., Maritime Telegraph & Telephone Co., addition, 1913 (dwgs. at PANS, Gates Coll.)
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S., residence for Hon. J.C. Tory, 1922 (dwgs. at PANS, Langille Coll.)
NEW GLASGOW, N.S., major addition to the Norfolk Hotel, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 27 Feb. 1929, 145)
WEST POINT BEACH, N.S., West Point Beach Lodge, 1929 (dwgs. at PANS, Langille Coll.)
COMPETITIONS
HALIFAX, N.S., South African War Memorial, 1900. Gates was one of several local Halifax architects who submitted a design. His proposal was for a large outdoor archway, and was illustrated in the Halifax Herald, 27 Oct. 1900, 10, illus. & descrip. It is unclear who won the competition.