Goodman, Charles Davis

GOODMAN, Charles Davis (1894-1962)
(biography in preparation)

C. Davis GOODMAN (Residential works in Montreal)

OUTREMONT, triplex for J. Eliosoff, Champagneur Avenue, 1924-25 (Outremont b.p. 1860, 27 Nov. 1924)
OUTREMONT, apartment block for M.H. Aronson, Villeneuve Avenue, 1925-26 (Outremont b.p. 1998, 10 Nov. 1925)
OUTREMONT, residence for A. Kadish, Bloomfield Avenue, 1927 (Outremont b.p. 2267, 3 Oct. 1927)
MONKLAND APARTMENTS, Monkland Avenue at Coronation Avenue, for A. Kadish, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 1 Feb. 1928, 49)
ALLENBY APARTMENTS, Vendome Avenue at Sherbrooke Street West, 1928 (Montreal, Les Appartements, 1991, 431-2, illus.)
RAMONA APARTMENTS, Old Orchard Avenue at Sherbrooke Street West, 1928-29 (Montreal, Les Appartements, 191, 256-7, illus.)
SURREY MANOR APARTMENTS, Edouard Montpetit Boulevard, 1931 (Montreal, Les Appartements, 1991, 188-9, illus.)
OUTREMONT, residence for Irving Freeman, Pagnuelo Avenue, 1932 (Outremont b.p. 2816, 20 May 1932)
OUTREMONT, residence for S. Lazar, Pagnuelo Avenue, 1932-33 (Outremont b.p. 2848, 14 Nov. 1932)
OUTREMONT, duplex for Strul Goldberg, Ducharme Avenue at Wilder Avenue, 1933 (Outremont b.p. 2850, 20 Dec. 1932; C.R., xlvii, 4 Jan. 1933, 34)
OUTREMONT, residence for Samuel Coorsh, Pagnuelo Avenue near Maplewood Avenue, 1933 (C.R., xlvii, 7 June 1933, 36)
WESTMOUNT, residence for I. Sydney Isaacs, Aberdeen Avenue, 1937 (C.R., vol. 50, 10 Feb. 1937, 38)
VERDUN, a tract of 88 new houses for returning war veterans, for the Parkdale Homes Development Corp,, Egan Avenue, 1945 (Montreal Daily Star, 24 July 1945, 3 & 4, descrip.; Gazette [Montreal], 25 July 1945, 4, descrip.)

C. Davis GOODMAN (Commercial & Industrial works in Montreal)

MACY'S DRUG STORE, St. James Street West near McGill Street, a three storey commercial block, 1926 (Gazette [Montreal], 24 Aug. 1926, 4; inf. Scott Edwards)
OUTREMONT, Pure Food Stores Ltd., Outremont Avenue, warehouse, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 9 May 1928, 56; Outremont b.p. 2384, 31 May 1928)
MURRAY'S SANDWICH SHOP, in the University Tower Building, Ste. Catherine Street West at University Street, 1929 (Const., xxiii, July 1930, 231-2, 238-40, illus. & descrip.)
MAISON STOBER INC., Notre Dame Street West, stores and apartments, 1930 (Montreal b.p. 3028, 1930)
COOPER CLOTHING MFR. CO., St. Lawrence Boulevard near Duluth Street, 1932 (see The Montreal Daily Star, 28 Feb. 1941, 35, which states that the original building was designed by C. Davis Goodman in 1932, and that he designed subsequent additions to the building in 1941)
UNITED DAIRY CO., St. Dominique Street, near St. Viateur Street East, offices, plant and garage, 1933 (Gazette [Montreal], 27 Dec. 1932, 4, descrip.; C.R., xlvii, 1 Feb. 1933, 39; inf. Scott Edwards)
KNIT-TO-FIT MFR. CO., [a.k.a. GROVER KNITTING MILLS], Parthenais Street at Lariviere Street, major 5 storey addition to factory, 1941 (Montreal Daily Star, 20 Feb. 1941, 31, descrip.; Gazette [Montreal], 3 May 1941, 23; C.R., liv, 14 May 1941, 32)
COOPER CLOTHING MFR. CO., St. Lawrence Boulevard near Duluth Street, major addition of five new floors to office block, 1941, and another addition, 1946 (Montreal Daily Star, 28 Feb. 1941, 35, descrip.; C.R., lix, June 1946, 140)
A. HOLLANDER & SON LTD., Wellington Street at Prince Street, a complete rebuilding of a factory after a fire and explosion in March 1941 (Gazette [Montreal], 14 June 1941, 25; inf. Scott Edwards)
(with L.A. & P.C. Amos) FORD HOTEL, Peel Street at Dorchester Street West, but later renamed The Laurentian Hotel [see entry below], designed in 1945 (Montreal Daily Star, 3 Dec. 1945, 4, illus. with architect's perspective; and 8 Dec. 1945, 3)
CANADIAN OUTFITTING CO., St. Lawrence Boulevard, stores, offices and showrooms, 1946 (C.R., lix, Oct. 1946, 94)
PESNER BROS. LTD., Notre Dame Street West, major addition to store, 1946 (C.R., lix, Oct. 1946, 96)
J. BECKER INC., Park Avenue, warehouse, 1946 (C.R., lix, April 1946, 148)
(with Mayerovitch & Bernstein) STERNTHAL BUILDING, St. Alexander Street, a 10 storey office block, 1947-48 (C.R., lx, May 1947, 120; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxvii, Nov. 1950, 386, illus.)
(with L.A. Amos & P.C. Amos) LAURENTIAN HOTEL, Peel Street at Dorchester Street West, including Murray's Restaurant, 1947-48; demol. 1978 (Gazette [Montreal], 22 March 1948, 26-38, illus. & detailed architectural descrip.; Canadian Hotel Review, xxvi, 15 April 1948, 23; Architecture Batiment Construction, iii, May 1948, 26-34, illus.)
(with Spence & Mathias) PHILLIPS SQUARE BUILDING, Phillips Square, an 11 storey office building, 1948-49 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxvii, July 1950, 42, illus. in advert.)
PASCAL'S HARDWARE DEPARTMENTAL STORE, Craig Street at Bleury Street, 1948-49 (Gazette [Montreal], 4 Sept. 1948, 10, illus. & detailed descrip.)
MURRAY'S RESTAURANT, Ste. Catherine Street West near Guy Street, 1949-50 (Gazette [Montreal], 28 Feb. 1950, 14, descrip.)
BEN'S BUILDING & RESTAURANT, Metcalfe Street at de Maisonneuve Boulevard, for Ben Kravitz, 1950; addition, 1954; demol. 2008 (C.R., lxiii, Feb. 1950, 134; Gazette [Montreal], 15 June 2007, p. 1 & p. 7, illus.; and 11 Oct. 2008, 7, illus.; Tim Morawetz, Art Deco Architecture Across Canada, 2017, 210, illus. & descrip.)
MANDARIN DINING ROOM, at Ruby Foo's Hotel, Decarie Boulevard near Jean Talon Street West, 1952-53 (Gazette [Montreal], 1 April 1953, 10, descrip.)

C. Davis GOODMAN (Institutional & Ecclesiastical works in Montreal)

MOOSE LODGE FRATERNAL TEMPLE, for the Loyal Order of Moose, 1927 (Montreal Daily Star, 8 July 1927, 6)
(with J.C. McDougall) JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL, Cote Ste. Catherine Road, 1931-33 (C.R., xlv, 10 June 1931, 53, t.c.; Gazette [Montreal], 7 May 1934, 13, descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, xiii, June 1936, 120-1, illus.)
SHAARE ZION JEWISH SYNAGOGUE, Cote St. Luc Road, 1938-39 (C.R., li, 23 Nov. 1938, 26)
JEWISH HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES, Sherbrooke Street East near Cadillac Street, designed 1934; built 1939-40; with major addition for the Nurse's Home, 1948 (Gazette [Montreal], 30 Aug. 1934, 2, descrip.; and 30 Aug. 1938, 2; C.R., lii, 11 Jan. 1939, 27, t.c.; and lxi, Feb. 1948, 167; Gazette [Montreal], 4 May 1946, 10; and 6 Jan. 1948, 3, descrip.)
JEWISH PUBLIC LIBRARY, Espia Avenue, 1944 (C.R., lvii, 20 Sept. 1944, 100)
(with Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Heughan) YOUNG MEN'S & YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION (The Snowdon Building), Westbury Street, large office block and club house, 1948-49 (C.R., lxi, June 1948, 164; Financial Post [Toronto], 21 October 1950, 5, illus.)

C. Davis GOODMAN (works elsewhere)

(with D.J. Spence) STE. AGATHE, QUE., Mount Sinai Sanatorium, 1929-30 (Canadian Hotel Review, viii, Jan. 1930, 62; R.A.I.C. Journal, vii, Aug. 1930, 289, illus.)
(with Herbert Duerr) HULL, QUE., Cartier Cinema, Main Street, 1936-37 (Le Droit [Ottawa], 25 March 1937, 6-9, illus. & descrip.)
IBERVILLE, QUE., Cooper Clothing Mfr. Co., factory, 1937-38 (C.R., vol. 50, 24 Nov. 1937, 29)
BAIE COMEAU, QUE., commercial block for an unidentified client, 1938 (C.R., li, 10 Aug. 1938, 32)
(with Richards & Abra) OTTAWA, ONT., Murray's Restaurant, Queen Street at Bank Street, 1940-41 (Canadian Hotel Review, xix, 15 March 1941, 18-19, illus.)
OTTAWA, ONT., Murray's Restaurant, in the Lord Elgin Hotel, Elgin Street, 1941 (Canadian Hotel Review, xix, 15 Aug. 1941, 14-17, illus. & descrip.)
TORONTO, ONT., major interior alterations to the Ford Hotel, Dundas Street West at Bay Street, 1942; demol. (Canadian Hotel Review, xx, 15 June 1942, 8-9, 38, illus. & descrip.)
FREDERICTON, N.B., Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, Queen Street, 1946; still standing in 2023 (Gazette [Montreal], 30 April 1962, obituary & list of works)
(with Dewar, Cawston & Stevenson) EDMONTON, ALTA., The Hotel Crystal, a 10 storey hotel for the Cristall Brothers, 1950-51 (Financial Post [Toronto], 30 Sept. 1950, 2, descrip.)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., major addition to textile factory for Bruck Silk Mills Ltd., 1950-51 (Financial Post (Toronto), 23 Dec. 1950, 5, descrip.)