COBB, Charles Sherman (1882-1964)
(biography in preparation)
(works in Toronto unless noted)
(with Frank A. Spangenberg) NATIONAL SANITARIUM ASSOCIATION, College Street at Ross Street, office and administration building,1914 (Toronto b.p. 9180, 13 Feb. 1914; Const., x, Oct. 1917, 349-51, illus. & descrip.; Toronto Architectural Conservancy, College Street: A Study - Part One, 2012, 11-13, illus. & descrip.) )
REGISTRY OFFICE, Albert Street, west of Bay Street, 1914-16; demol. 1960 for the new Toronto City Hall (Const., vi, Dec. 1913, 467-70, illus. & descrip.; x, Oct. 1917, 334-44, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xxix, 13 Oct. 1915, 1056-7, illus. & descrip.; W. Dendy, Lost Toronto, 1978, 150-1, illus.; dwgs. at Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, Baldwin Room)
NATIONAL SANITARIUM ASSOCIATION, Buttonwood Avenue off Weston Road, Weston, new cottages at the Hospital, 1916 (Const., ix, July 1916, 241)
DUNVEGAN ROAD, at Lonsdale Road, residence for Charles S. Blackwell, 1917-18 (Const., ix, Oct. 1916, 362; xii, June 1919, 172-5, 177-8, illus. & descrip.)
DAVENPORT ROAD, near Bathurst Street, mansion for Sir William J. Gage, and now fronting onto Burnside Drive, 1917-18 (Const., xi, June 1918, 168-72, illus. & descrip.; inf. Barbara Myrvold, Toronto Public Library)
FAIRWEATHERS STORE, Yonge Street near King Street West, 1918-19; altered 1988 (Const., xii, Sept. 1919, 260-66, illus. & descrip.; xviii, Feb. 1925, 64-5, illus. & descrip.)
IMPERIAL BANK, Market Branch, King Street East near Jarvis Street, 1919; demol. (Const., xii, Aug. 1919, 228, 239, illus.)
IMPERIAL BANK, Danforth Avenue at Monarch Park Avenue, 1919; demol. in 1927 and replaced by a new and larger bank designed by Langley & Howland (Const., xii, Aug. 1919, 239, illus.)
IMPERIAL BANK, Kingston Road at Willow Avenue, 1919-20 (Const., xvi, June 1923, 208-10, illus. & descrip.)
KITCHENER, ONT., residence for Albert W. Augustine, Margaret Avenue, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 10 March 1920, 64, t.c.)
IMPERIAL BANK, Queen Street East at Carlaw Avenue, 1920 (Const., xvi, June 1923, 208-10, illus. & descrip.)
CEDARVALE PARK, houses for unnamed clients, 1918-19 (Const., xii, June 1919, 176-7, illus.)
PARKDALE SCHOOL, Jameson Avenue, addition, 1919 (C.R., xxxiii, 4 June 1919, 45)
MACLEAN PUBLISHING CO., University Avenue at Edward Street, office building, 1919; demol. (C.R., xxxiii, 19 March 1919, 46)
WHITNEY AVENUE, residence for Levon Babayan, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 10 March 1920, 65, t.c.)
IMPERIAL BANK, St. Clair Avenue West at Boon Avenue, 1921 (Const., xvi, June 1923, 208-10, illus. & descrip.)
WINDSOR, ONT., Imperial Bank, Ouellette Avenue at University Avenue, 1921 (Const., xvi, April 1923, 120-7, illus. & descrip.)
CANADA BREAD CO., Danforth Avenue at Ladysmith Avenue, factory, 1920 (Const., xiv, Nov. 1921, 324-9, illus. & descrip.)
SANDWICH, ONT., Essex County Sanitarium, new administration, service and hospital buildings, 1921 (C.R., xxxv, 22 June 1921, 43, t.c.)
GRAVENHURST, ONT., Muskoka Free Hospital for Consumptives, 1921-22 (C.R., xxxvi, 8 Nov. 1922, 1076-77, illus. & descrip.)
(works in Calfornia)
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., master plan for Los Angeles Civic Centre, Broadway at Temple Street, designed 1925, but not built (Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 1925, Section One, p. 6, illus. & descrip.; with correction, 3 Feb. 1925, Section Two, p. 6)
CENTRAL AUTO GARAGE, Grand Avenue at 8th Street, a 10 storey parking garage with club facilities for the Central Auto Club, 1926, but perhaps not built (Los Angeles Evening Express, 7 Aug. 1926, Real Estate Section, p. 1, descrip.)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF., Hacienda Arms Apartments, a five storey apartment block, Sunset Boulevard at Queen's Road, 1927; renovated and restored 1984-85 and now called the Piazza del Sol Building (Los Angeles Times, 22 May 1927, Section Five, p. 3, illus. & descrip.)
CALIEXCO, CALIF., a large three storey hotel with one hundred rooms, Rockwood Avenue at East Third Street, 1928-29 (Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 1928, Section Two, p. 10, descrip.)
PASADENA, CALIF., small apartment block for Benson A. Talbot, South Wilson Avenue near East Del Mar Boulevard, 1948 (Pasadena Independent, 20 June 1948, 35)
COMPETITIONS
TORONTO, ONT., Central Technical School, Bathurst Street at Harbord Street, 1912. Cobb was one of seventeen architects to submit designs for this major insititutional building. He received the Third Prize of $500 for his effort (Ottawa Journal, 20 June 1912, 14). The winners were Ross & MacFarlane of Montreal.
MOOSE JAW, SASK., City Hall, 1912. This national competition produced 30 entries by architects from Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and elsewhere. Charles Cobb received the 4th Prize for his effort (Edmonton Journal, 24 Dec. 1912, 18; Const. vi, Jan. 1913, 18, illus.). The First Prize was awarded to John D. Atchison of Winnipeg, but his winning design was never built.
FRANCE & BELGIUM, Canadian Battlefields Memorial, 1921. Cobb was among more than 100 Canadian architects and artists who submitted plans in this national competition. He was one of 17 finalists who were selected for the second stage of the competition (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 25 April 1921, 3, list of finalists). The First Premium was eventually awarded to F.C. Clemesha of Regina, and to the sculptor Walter Allward of Toronto.