GALLOWAY, James Hartley (1881- 1961), born in St. George, Brant County, Ontario on 12 August 1881, was active in Toronto where he designed residential, commercial, ecclesiastical and industrial works for a variety of clients. His name first appears in Toronto City Directories in 1899; from 1902 to 1905 he was listed as a carpenter, and likely gained most of his knowledge of construction by working in the building trades. He does not appear to have received any formal education or training in architecture. Many of his residential works were located in the fashionable neighbourhoods of Forest Hill, The Annex, and Rosedale. They often included exterior walls clad in clinker brick, a series of broken or poorly fired bricks which project outward from alternate rows of smooth faced brick. His own house in the Moore Park neighbourhood (1909) was built as a demonstration of this building technique (Toronto Star, 29 Sept. 2001, N 14). No references to his work can be found after 1922, but he is almost certainly the same "James H. Galloway, Architect" active in New York City in 1929-30 (James Ward, Architects in Practice: New York City 1900-1940, 1989, 27). He left Canada in 1924 and emigrated to New York State to take up residence in the town of Richmond, Ontario County, south of Rochester, N.Y. and lived in Richmond until at least November 1954. Galloway later moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1956 and died there on 9 October 1961 (obituary Tampa Bay Times [St. Petersburg], 10 Oct. 1961, 16).
James H. GALLOWAY (works in Toronto)
PEARSON AVENUE, at Sorauren Avenue, residence for Clarence James, 1905 (Toronto b.p. 876, 16 May 1905)
QUEEN STREET WEST, near Jameson Avenue, residence for Dr. Malcolm W. Sparrow, 1905 ((Toronto b.p. 2003, 8 Sept. 1905)
BALMORAL AVENUE, near Avenue Road, residence for Walter V. Ecclestone, 1907 (Toronto b.p. 6534, 7 March 1907; C.R., xviii, 3 April 1907, 8)
JAMESON AVENUE, near Queen Street West, residence for Dr. James M. Palmer, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 1 May 1907, 6)
WALMER ROAD, near Bernard Avenue, major alterations to residence for Robert W. Eaton, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 1 May 1907, 6)
HAVELOCK AVENUE, residence for J. Miller Prentiss, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 1 May 1907, 8)
LANSDOWNE AVENUE, residence for Charles W. Chadwick, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 24 April 1907, 8)
GRAFTON AVENUE, pair of houses for B.J. Brandon, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 5 June 1907, 4)
KING STREET WEST, near Cowan Avenue, residence for Issac Lennox, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 5 June 1907, 4)
BEDFORD ROAD, at Boswell Avenue, residence for Edward J. Jackson, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 24 July 1907, 6)
TRILLER AVENUE, residence for Charles W. Chadwick, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 24 July 1907, 6)
BALMORAL AVENUE, residence for Joseph O'Malley, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 24 July 1907, 8)
AVENUE ROAD, near Foxbar Road, residence for Dr. William S. Grimshaw, 1908 (Const., i, May 1908, 67)
BINSCARTH ROAD, residence for Sim & Smart, Builders, 1908-09 (C.R., xxii, 30 Dec. 1908, 27; xxiii, 10 Feb. 1909, 21)
QUEEN STREET WEST, near Fuller Avenue, row of four stores with apartments above, for R.T. Smith, 1909 (Const., ii, Feb. 1909, 77)
ST. CLAIR AVENUE EAST, residence for J.H. Galloway architect, 1909 (Const., ii, April 1909, 53-6, illus. & descrip.)
HIGH PARK AVENUE, near Roncesvalles Avenue, residence for Robert J. Bruce, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 5 May 1909, 20)
BLOOR STREET WEST, near Bathurst Street, row of stores and apartments for Edwin J. Jackson, 1909 (Toronto b.p. 15091, 6 May 1909)
LYNWOOD AVENUE, near Warren Road, residence for T.P. Stewart, 1909 (Toronto b.p. 15426, 21 May 1909)
DUNVEGAN ROAD, near St. Clair Avenue West, residence for T.P. Stewart, 1910 (Toronto b.p. 22388, 27 July 1910)
BELGRAVIA APARTMENTS, Oriole Road near Lonsdale Road, a pair of apartment buildings for F.P. Stewart, 1910-11 (Toronto b.p. 24969, 30 Dec. 1910)
HIGH PARK ROAD, near Sunnyside Avenue, residence for E. Parry Atkinson, 1911 (Toronto b.p. 25659, 16 March 1911)
BALMORAL AVENUE, near Avenue Road, residence for Edward Vrye, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 16 Aug. 1911, 61)
RONCESVALLES AVENUE, at Walter Street, residence for Dr. Charles McVicar, 1911 (Const., iv, Aug. 1911, 83-4, illus. & descrip.)
FOREST HILL ROAD, at Heath Street West, residence for Maj. Harold C. Bickford, 1911-12 (Toronto b.p. 31307, 28 Oct, 1911; C.R., xxv, 1 Nov. 1911, 59)
POPLAR PLAINS ROAD, near Lynwood Avenue, residence for Burgoyne R. Gordon, 1911 (Const., iv, Nov. 1911, illus. in advert. for the Roman Stone Co. Ltd.)
RUSSELL HILL ROAD, near Lonsdale Road, residence for Henry W. Tisdall, 1911 (Toronto b.p. 31340, 1 Nov. 1911; C.R., xxv, 8 Nov. 1911, 59)
PAULINE AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH, Pauline Avenue at Bloor Street West, 1912-13 (Toronto b.p. 1674, 7 Jan. 1913; C.R., xxvii, 1 Jan. 1913, 78; Carman Memorial United Church 1912-1962, 6, illus.)
DEER PARK CRESCENT, near Oriole Road, apartment block for T.P. Stewart, 1912 (Toronto b.p. 32417, 2 Feb. 1912; b.p. 32422, 2 Feb. 1912; C.R., xxvi, 14 Feb. 1912, 65)
YONGE STREET, near Dundonald Street, row of stores for S. Garfunkel, 1912-13 (Toronto b.p. 825, 5 Nov. 1912)
DUNDAS STREET WEST, near Quebec Avenue, store and apartments for E.P. Atkinson, 1913 (Toronto b.p. 3975, 7 May 1913)
GLEN ROAD, near Summerhill Avenue, two detached houses, and two pairs of semi-detached houses for A.A. Kennedy, 1913 (Toronto b.p. 7085, 26 Sept. 1913)
UPPER CANADA APARTMENTS, Lonsdale Road at Lawton Avenue, 1914 (Canadian Builder & Carpenter, iv, March 1914, 27-9, illus. & descrip.)
RUSSELL HILL ROAD, near Heath Street, residence for Fred J. Allward, 1914 (Toronto b.p. 13638, 30 July 1914)
EPWORTH METHODIST CHURCH, Christie Street at Yarmouth Road, 1914 (Toronto b.p. 14304, 10 Sept. 1914)
HOPE METHODIST CHURCH, Danforth Avenue at Main Street, addition of a Sunday School, 1914; still standing in 2023 (Toronto b.p. 14284, 17 Sept. 1914; dwgs. at City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 410, File 4147)
NORTH PARKDALE UNITED CHURCH, Sorauren Avenue at Galley Avenue, addition of a Sunday School, 1922 (Historical Notes on North Parkdale United Church, 1959)
James H. GALLOWAY (works elsewhere)
HUNTSVILLE, ONT., residence for J.H. Johnson, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 24 March 1909, 21)
ORONO, ONT., Standard Bank, Main Street, 1919 (Canadian Statesman [Bowmanville], 11 Dec. 1919, 8)
MIDLAND, ONT., Standard Bank, 1920 (dwgs. at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Record Centre, Toronto, P44)
DUBLIN, ONT., Standard Bank, 1920 (dwgs. at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Record Centre, Toronto, P148)
SAINT JOHN, N.B., alterations to existing building for the Standard Bank, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 18 Feb. 1920, 49)