JORDAN, Lewis Henry (1866-1939) was active in Winnipeg, Manitoba where he practised continuously in partnership with Walter P. Over from 1910 until late 1925. Born in New York on 10 August 1866, he may have been trained in Chicago. The Chicago City Directory of 1887 records his name as architect, working from an office on Monroe Street (Chicago Directory, 1887, 824). He moved to Canada in 1904 or 1905, and he was appointed as local Manager for the Winnipeg branch office of Darling & Pearson (Winnipeg City Directory, 1906, 596). He held that position until 1909, and the following year he formed a partnership with W.P. Over. In 1917 he was elected President of the Manitoba Association of Architects, and in 1922 he was nominated as President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Jordan left Canada in early 1926 and moved back to Chicago, Illinois, then relocated to Minneapolis, Minn. where he worked as an architect from 1927 until 1937. In 1938 he was living and working in Detroit, Mich. as a staff member with the firm of Albert Kahn in Detroit, Michigan, and he was said to have assisted with the design of the Fisher Building, an important Detroit landmark. (biography and portrait in R.A.I.C. Journal, xxii, Dec. 1945, 270). Jordan died in Detroit on 30 July 1939 (State of Michigan, Dept. of Health, Death Certificate No. 254 635 for Lewis Henry Jordan, architect).
JORDAN & OVER
(works in Winnipeg unless noted)
HAVERGAL COLLEGE, Carlton Street, major addition and alterations, 1909 (Winnipeg Tribune, 7 Aug. 1909, 1)
UNION BANK, Logan Avenue at Nena Street, 1910 (Winnipeg b.p. 1334, 1910; Winnipeg, Monuments to Finance, ii, 1982, 80-1, 122, illus.)
ALLOWAY & CHAMPION BANK, Main Street, south of Portage Avenue, 1910 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 23 April 1910, 25, illus. & descrip.)
T.. EATON CO., Hargrave Street, extension to warehouse, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 27 April 1910, 32)
GORDON MITCHELL DRUG CO., McDermot Avenue at Gertie Street, warehouse, 1910 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 11 June 1910, 9)
UNION BANK, Sargent Avenue at Sherbrook Street, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 26 July 1911, 66)
ST. BONIFACE, apartment block for Mrs. H.S. Dick, Marion Street at Tache Avenue, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 23 Aug. 1911, 64)
VIRDEN, MAN., First Church of Christ Scientist, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 13 Sept. 1911, 59)
HAMPTON COURT APARTMENTS, Kennedy Street, for Mrs. S.M. Stidson, 1912 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 12 June 1912, 8)
CRESCENT CREAMERY CO., Burnell Street near Ellice Avenue, 1912-13 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 9 Nov. 1912, 13, illus. & descrip.)
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, Newton Avenue at Stadacona Street, 1913 (Bank of Nova Scotia Archives, General Manager's Letter Book, 17 July 1913)
METALLIC ROOFING CO., Notre Dame Avenue West, warehouse, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 25 June 1913, 67-8)
WINNIPEG GRAIN EXCHANGE, Lombard Avenue at Rorie Street, extensions, 1913; 1917; Annex 1920 (C.R., xxvii, 1 Oct. 1913, 71; xxxi, 14 Feb. 1917, 43; Winnipeg Tribune, 5 Jan. 1917, 1, descrip.; Winnipeg b.p. 2255, 1920; Const., xvi, Sept. 1923, 331-36, illus. & descrip.)
YALE AVENUE, residence for an unidentified owner, 1913 (Const., vii, July 1914, 265-66, illus. & descrip.)
BROADWAY BAPTIST CHURCH, Broadway at Walnut Street, 1914 (Western Outlook [Winnipeg], vii, 16 Nov. 1914, 4, illus. & descrip.; Winnipeg b.p. 1237, 1914)
WESTMORELAND APARTMENTS, Preston Avenue at Walnut Street, 1914 (Winnipeg b.p. 1291, 1914)
HOUSE NO. 11, for an unidentified owner, 1914 (Const., viii, June 1915, 253-55, illus. & descrip.)
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST, River Avenue at Nassau Street, begun 1910-11; completed 1914-15 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 25 March 1911, 12, illus. & descrip.; Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 28 March 1911, 2, descrip.; C.R., xxx, 17 May 1916, 484, illus. & descrip.; Const., x, Dec. 1917, 406-08, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. at Winnipeg City Archives)
BRANDON, MAN., Crscent Creamery, Assiniboine Avenue, 1916 (Brandon b.p. 2353, 29 March 1916)
CECIL RHODES PUBLIC SCHOOL, 1918 (Winnipeg Tribune, 24 June 1918, 2, t.c.)
BRANDON, MAN., Nurses Home for the Provincial Insane Asylum, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 25 Feb. 1920, 46, t.c.)
CITY DAIRY CO., Notre Dame Avenue at Adelaide Street, addition, 1926 (inf. R. Rostecki)