GIBB, William (fl. 1877-94) was active in St. John's, Newfoundland where he designed St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Long's Hill, 1877-79. The church was destroyed in the Great Fire there in April 1892. He is also credited as the architect of the Cochrane Street Methodist Church, 1880-82. This church suffered a similar fate, and burned in 1914. Gibb arrived in the colony before 1877 but left for the United States after 1885. He worked in Africa and then moved to Colorado where he is listed as an architect in Denver, working as a job site superintendent for the prominent architect Frank E. Edbrooke (City Directory of Denver, 1890, 482). The following year he appears to have been practising under his own name there (City Directory of Denver, 1891, 568, 1560). By 1894 he had made plans to return to Newfoundland, likely lured again to St. John's and the major rebuilding effort after the Great Fire of 1892. A brief biography of his career appeared in Evening Telegram [St. John's], 8 May 1894, 4.
ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Long's Hill, 1877-79 (Newfoundlander [St. John's], 7 Aug. 1877, 3, t.c.; Evening Telegram [St. John's], 19 April 1879, 3)
ST. JOHN'S, NFLD, Cochrane Street Methodist Church, 1880-82; burned April 1892 (Newfoundland Quarterly [St. John's], v, July 1905, 6)
ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., St. Patrick's Hall, for the Benevolent Irish Society, various works on the completion of the upper rooms in the Hall, 1881 (Evening Telegram [St. John's], 12 Jan. 1881, 3, t.c.)