Colonna, Edward

COLONNA, Edward (1862-1948)
(biography in preparation)

SHERBROOKE, QUE., C.P.R. Station, 1889 (C.P.R. Archives, Shaughnessy Correspondence Register, iv, 95, 10 Aug. 1899)
BANFF, ALTA., C.P.R. Station, 1889 (C.P.R. Archives, Van Horne Letterbook, xxxi, 558; Memoranda from Colonna to C. Drinkwater, 1 Nov. 1889, No. 26201)
MONTREAL, QUE., major addition and alterations to the mansion of Sir William Van Horne, Sherbrooke Street West at Stanley Street, 1890; demol. 1973 (L. d'Iberville-Moreau, Lost Montreal, 1975, 88-9, illus.; Dr. Martin Eidelberg, E. Colonna, 1983, pub. Dayton Art Institute, 24-6, illus. & descrip.)
TROIS RIVIERES, QUE., C.P.R. Station, 1890 (C.P.R. Archives, Shaughnessy Correspondence Register, vii, 21, 82)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., C.P.R. Station, 1890 (C.P.R. Archives, Van Horne Letterbook, xxxv, 852; Dr. Martin Eidelberg, E. Colonna, 1983, pub. Dayton Art Institute, 23, illus.)
TORONTO, ONT., proposal for Union Station, Front Street West, 1891 (Saturday Globe [Toronto], 9 May 1892, 3, illus. & descrip.); later built in 1893-94 to the design of Strickland & Symons.
VANCOUVER, B.C., a new club building in Vancouver, 1891, perhaps for the Vancouver Club (Vancouver Daily World, 8 July 1891, 4, but credited to "Mr. Calound [sic], the CPR Architect at Montreal")
VANCOUVER, B.C., a new office building for the C.P.R. Railway Co. '...in the Flemish style of architecture', Cordova Street, with north elevation facing Burrard Inlet, 1891 (Vancouver Daily World, 11 Sept. 1891, 5, descrip.)
VANCOUVER, B.C., C.P.R. Terminal Station and General Offices, Georgia Street at Granville Street, 1891; design modified in 1895 by Edward Maxwell (C.R., ii, 1 Aug. 1891, 2; Vancouver Daily World, 3 Oct. 1891, 2, illus. & descrip.; 18 Jan. 1892, 4, descrip.; dwgs. at McGill University, Canadian Architecture Collection, Maxwell Collection Finding Aid, 1986, Item 33)
OTTAWA, ONT., interior decoration, painting and stencilling of Dominion Methodist Church, Metcalfe Street, 1893 (Ottawa Free Press, 10 April 1893, 7, descrip.; 17 June 1893, 7, descrip.; Evening Journal [Ottawa], 11 April 1893, 7, descrip.)
MONTREAL, QUE., C.P.R. Ticket Office, St. James Street at St. Francois Xavier Street, 1893 (Gazette [Montreal], 2 May 1893, 2, descrip.)
BRANDON, MAN., C.P.R. Station, 1893 (Dr. Martin Eidelberg, E. Colonna, 1983, pub. Dayton Art Institute, 23, illus.)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., C.P.R. Station, Third Avenue North, 1893 (Manitoba, Early Architecture of Portage La Prairie, 1983, Item 13, illus.)
REGINA, SASK., C.P.R. Station, with Frank H. Peters, Local Supervising architect, 1893; dismantled in 1912 and rebuilt in Broadview, Saskatchewan, but tower removed (The Leader [Regina], 27 April 1893, 8; 18 May 1893, 4; J. Martin, Railway Stations in Western Canada, 1980, 16-17, illus.; inf. Frank Korvemaker, Regina)
CALGARY, ALTA., C.P.R. Station, 1893 (Dr. Martin Eidelberg, E. Colonna, 1983, pub. Dayton Art Institute, 23, illus.)
CHICAGO, ILL., interiors of the CPR Canadian Passenger Train, on exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, including design of the interiors of the 1st Class Car, the 2nd Class Car, the Dining Car, and the Sleeping Car, all designed in " the Italian Renaissance style" (Chicago Tribune, 16 March 1893, 10, descrip.; Evening Record [Windsor], 15 April 1893, 7, descrip.; Vancouver Daily World, 26 July 1894, 4, descrip.)
TORONTO, ONT., King Edward Hotel, King Street East at Victoria Street, interiors of the hotel, including the Rotunda, parlours, corridors, principal suites and the Victoria Room Dining Hall, 1902-03 (Toronto World, 21 Oct. 1902, 6; National Monthly [Toronto], iii, Sept. 1903, 130; Eric Arthur, Toronto No Mean City, 1964, 200, illus.)
TORONTO, ONT., King Edward Hotel, King Street East at Victoria Street, a custom-made grand piano for the Hotel, likely designed in an Art Nouveau style, and manufactured by Mason & Risch Ltd. of Toronto, 1903 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 3 Oct. 1903, 11, descrip.)