LEYBOURNE, Malcolm (1885-1964) was active in Windsor, Ont. where he formed a partnership with R.J. Whitney as 'Architects & Engineers' in May 1912 (The Brickbuilder [New York], xxi, June 1912, 171, partnership announcement). Born at Sunderland, Co. Durham on 5 July 1885, he was recorded as an apprentice architect in South Shields, Co. Durham, England where he was a pupil of J.W. MacDonald (Journal of the Royal Inst. of British Architects [London], xi, 25 July 1903, 479, list of students for RIBA examinations). Leybourne was reputedly 'a graduate of Michigan University' and claimed full membership in the Royal Institute of British Architects, but this cannot be substantiated in the Membership records held by the R.I.B.A. in London, England. The firm of Leybourne & Whitney was credited with a variety of buildings in Windsor and in neighbouring Walkerville, Ont., including residential, commercial and ecclesiastical projects, many of which still stand today. In 1913 their firm prepared a design for a new Windsor Police Station, to be erected near City Hall (Evening Record [Windsor], 19 Feb. 1913, 1, illus. & descrip.), but the scheme was never built. A few months earlier, in September 1912, the firm of Leybourne & Whitney were one of 39 architects from across Canada who submitted plans in the national competition for the Winnipeg City Hall, but they were not among the five finalists (Evening Record [Windsor], 11 Sept. 1912, 7; 6 Feb. 1913, 2; City of Winnipeg Archives, Council Communications, 1913, Box A169, Item 9741, list of entrants). The winners were Clemesha & Portnall of Regina, but their scheme was never built.
In 1915 he formed another partnership with John Selby Sewell (1892-1968), but their partnership was dissolved in 1917, and Leybourne took over the practise (Const., x, May 1917, 168). No information has been found on Leybourne in Canada after 1918, but he is almost certainly the same "Malcolm Leybourne, architect" who moved to Dayton, Ohio where he joined the office of Schenck & Williams, Architects, and later opened an office under his own name. He was recorded in the 1930 U.S.A. Census as living and working in the town of Monroe, Miami County, Ohio. Leybourne died in Massachusetts on 26 July 1964 and was later buried at Maple Cemetery in Tippecanoe City, Miami County, Ohio. (biog. in Walkerville Ontario - 1913 -, Including Windsor, Ford, Sandwich & Ojibway, 86; inf. Andrew Foot, Windsor).
LEYBOURNE & WHITNEY
(works in Windsor unless noted)
WALKERVILLE, ONT. residence for C.T. Miller, Chilver Road, 1912 (Evening Record [Windsor], 21 June 1912, Section One, 9, illus.)
RIVERSIDE DRIVE, at Dougall Avenue, a block of stores and flats for A. Shalhoub, 1912; demol. c. 1955 (Evening Record [Windsor], 28 June 1912, Section One, 9, illus. & descrip.; 11 Nov. 1912, 2, descrip.; Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 1912, 14)
DOUGALL AVENUE, residence for George H. Wilkinson, 1912; demol. (Evening Record [Windsor], 28 June 1912, Section One, 10, illus. & descrip.)
PITT STREET EAST, between Ouellette Avenue and Goyeau Street, stores and flats for Osterhout & Little, 1912; demol. (Evening Record [Windsor], 19 July 1912, Section One, 9, illus. & descrip.)
WINDSOR MACHINE & TOOL WORKS, Pitt Street West near Bruce Street, 1912 (Evening Record [Windsor], 2 Aug. 1912, Section One, 7, illus.)
WYANDOTTE STREET EAST, stores and flats for Osterhout & Little, 1912 (Evening Record [Windsor], 11 Oct. 1912, Section One, 9, illus.)
SANDWICH STREET, stores and flats for Stenlake & Smith, 1912; demol. (Evening Record [Windsor], 18 Oct. 1912, Section One, 9, illus. & descrip.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., large auto garage for George Reid, Kildare Road near Assumption Street, 1912-13 (Evening Record [Windsor], 20 Dec. 1912, Section One, 9, illus. & descrip.)
OLDCASTLE, SANDWICH SOUTH, ONT., St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Howard Avenue near South Talbot Road, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 19 Dec. 1912, 1, descrip.; 13 Jan. 1913, Section One, 1, illus. & descrip.)
ALL SAINT'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, University Avenue East at City Hall Square, major addition and alterations, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 7 April 1913, 7, descrip.)
MARENTETTE AVENUE, residence for Neil Reaume, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 14 April 1913, 1, descrip.)
DOUGALL AVENUE, residence for John Stead, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 21 May 1913, 5)
DOUGALL AVENUE PUBLIC SCHOOL, major addition, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 21 May 1913, 5)
FORD CITY, ONT., residence for R.J. Whitney, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 21 May 1913, 5)
HOTEL & ROOMING HOUSE, for single men, Ferry Avenue at Chatham Street, for Frederick Dresch, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 15 Aug. 1913, 10, illus. & descrip.)
OUELLETTE AVENUE, near Montrose Street, residence for Frederick E. Harvey, 1913-14 (Evening Record [Windsor], 6 Dec. 1913, 8, illus. & descrip.)
CHURCH STREET, residence for Harold Bolton, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 13 March 1913, 7; 12 Dec. 1913, 10, illus. & descrip.)
OUELLETTE AVENUE, at Giles Boulevard, large residence for A.A. Little, 1913-14 (Evening Record [Windsor], 13 Dec. 1913, 10, illus. & descrip.)
WINDSOR GAS CO., Chatham Street, between Pelissier Avenue and Victoria Avenue, an office building for W.C. Kennedy and Charles S. King, 1915 (Evening Record [Windsor], 22 March 1915, 1, descrip.)
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Mercer Street at Tuscarora Street, 1915 (Evening Record [Windsor], 17 May 1915, 2, illus.)
OUELLETTE AVENUE, at Giles Avenue, residence for C. Walter Cadwell, 1915-16; demol. (Const., x, May 1917, 167-9, illus. & descrip.)
LEYBOURNE & SEWELL
FORD CITY, ONT., a group of eleven workmen's cottages, on the Aubyn-Komer subdivision, 1915 (Detroit Free Press, 10 April 1915, 14)
WINDSOR, ONT., large brick garage for Edward Zeller, McDougall Avenue at Wyandotte Street, 1915 (Detroit Free Press, 10 April 1915, 14)
WINDSOR, ONT., a small two-unit apartment block for Miss Margaret Gleadon, Pelissier Avenue, 1915 (Evening Record [Windsor], 3 May 1915, 5, descrip.)
WINDSOR, ONT., a meat market building for P. Harvey, butcher, Wyandotte Street East "...opposite the Odd Fellows Temple", 1915 (Evening Record [Windsor], 8 May 1915, 12, descrip.; Detroit Free Press, 23 June 1915, 11)
WINDSOR, ONT., First Baptist Church, Mercer Street at Tuscarora Street, 1915 (Evening Record [Windsor], 17 May 1915, 2, illus. & descrip.)
WINDSOR, ONT., a terrace of four houses for Clarke & Sons, Howard Avenue, 1915 (Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 1915, 14)
WINDSOR, ONT., three houses for Arthur Selby, Dougall Avenue, 1915-16 (Evening Record [Windsor], 18 Nov. 1915, 3)
WINDSOR, ONT., residence for William Weir, Dougall Avenue, 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 27 Jan. 1916, 5, t.c.)
WINDSOR, ONT., small apartment block with 4 units, for Mrs. George Hallett, Dougall Avenue, 1916 (Evening Record [Windsor], 29 March 1916, 2)
M. LEYBOURNE (works in Ohio, USA)
TROY, OHIO, Dormitory Building for Knoop Children's Home, 1932 (Daily Call [Piqua, Ohio], 11 March 1932, 14; 2 Aug. 1932 12, descrip.)
TIPPECANOE, OHIO, extensive alterations to the Town Hall, Third Street at Main Street, 1935 (Daily Advocate [Greenville, Ohio], 26 June 1935, 6, descrip.)
NEW LEBANON, OHIO, major addition to Johnsville-New Lebanon School, 1936 (Dayton Daily News, 29 Feb. 1936, 16, t.c.)
XENIA, OHIO, major addition to Eagles Fraternal Lodge, West Second Street, 1948 (Dayton Daily News, 28 June 1948, 1, descrip.)
DAYTON, OHIO, Molen Dairy Ltd., Wagoner Ford Road, 1954 (Dayton Daily News, 20 June 1954, Section 3, page 4, illus. in advert.)
FAIRBORN, OHIO, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, major addition for education and youth centre, 1955 (Journal-Herald [Dayton], 2 April 1955, 3, descrip.)
COMPETITIONS
WINDSOR, ONT., Masonic Temple, 1915. It appears that 4 local architects were invited to submit a design for the new Masonic Temple on Ouellette Avenue, but the submission by Leybourne & Sewell was set aside and J.C. Pennington was awarded the commission (Evening Record [Windsor], 3 June 1915, 2). The winning scheme was not built until 1921, by Pennington & Boyde, Architects)