DUFRESNE, Adrien (1904-1983)
(biography in preparation)
The Archives at Laval University in Quebec City holds an extensive collection of original drawings by Dufresne, as well as many items from his personal library and correspondence files of the architect. A portfolio of his student drawings prepared while studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Quebec from 1926 to 1928 is also held within this collection.
Adrien DUFRESNE (works in Beauport)
NOTRE DAME DE LA NATIVITE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, designs for the main altar at the parish church, 1932 (l’Action Catholique [Quebec City], 24 Sept. 1932, 8, illus. & descrip.; R.A.I.C Journal, xviii, April 1941, 62, illus.; dwgs. at Laval University Archives)
STE. THERESE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Bertrand Boulevard, 1936-37 (La Voix Nationale [Quebec City], Sept. 1937, 22, illus. & descrip.; l’Action Catholique [Quebec City], 1 Aug. 1937, 1 and 7, illus. & descrip.; Architect’s Journal [London], xc, 20 July 1939, 109-10, illus. & descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxiii, March 1946, 66-7, illus.; Architecture Batiment Construction [Montreal], ii, Oct. 1947, 32-6, illus. & descrip.; N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 66-9, illus. & descrip.; H. Kalman, History of Canadian Architecture, 1994, 729-30, illus.; L. Noppen, H. Jobidon & P. Trepanier, Quebec Monumental 1890-1990, 163, illus. & descrip.)
(with Pierre Levesque, and Beaule & Morissette) HOPITAL ST. MICHEL ARCHANGE, [now Robert Giffard Hospital], Canardiere Road, 1940-46 (Continuite [Quebec City], No. 38, Winter 1988, 55; L. Noppen, H. Jobidon & P. Trepanier, Quebec Monumental 1890-1990, 164, illus. & descrip.)
Adrien DUFRESNE (works in Quebec City)
(with Wilfrid Lacroix and Sylvio Brassard) COLLEGE ST. CHARLES GARNIER, for the Jesuit Fathers, St. Cyrille Boulevard West, 1934-35 (L. Noppen, H. Jobidon & P. Trepanier, Quebec Monumental 1890-1990, 55, illus. & descrip.)
CHURCH CLUB FOR GIRLS, (or patronage), for the R.R.S.S. du Bon Pasteur, Berthelot Street at St. Amable Street, 1940-41 (C.R., liii, 13 March 1940, 20; liv, 14 May 1941, 30; N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 71-2, illus. plates 80-83)
EGLISE ST. ESPRIT, 2nd Avenue near 7th Street, interior finishing and decoration, 1941 (C.R., liv, 16 April 1941, 31; 23 July 1941, 84; N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 71, plate illus. 79)
ECOLE NORMALE DE MERICI, decoration of the chapel, 1941 (N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 70, illus. plates 75, 78)
EGLISE NOTRE DAME DE LA PAIX, for the Parish of St. Rodrigue, St. Roch Street at Ste. Marguerite Street, near Jean Talon Square, designed 1942; built 1946-47 (C.R., lv, 7 Jan. 1942, 31; 21 Jan. 1942, 30; Le Soleil [Quebec City], 20 Nov. 1946, 1, illus.; Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, Feb. 1947, 30-2, illus.; v, Feb. 1950, 22-3, illus.; N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 72-4, descrip.; illus. plates 84-91 and 93-95; L. Noppen et al, Quebec - Trois siecles d‘Architecture, 1979, 191, illus.)
(with Edouard Fiset) QUEBEC CITY, QUE., United Nations Peace Centre, on the Plains of Abraham, 1945 (Montreal Daily Star, 9 June 1945, 21, illus. & descrip., but not built)
EGLISE ST. PASCAL BAYLON, La Canardiere Street at Bardy Street, 1946-47 (C.R., lix, June 1946, 140; Nov. 1946, 102; Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, Oct. 1947, 37-8, illus.; v, Feb. 1950, 22-3, illus.; N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 75-6, illus. plates 98-103)
EGLISE ST. FIDELE, 12th Street at 8th Avenue, 1947-51 (Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, Oct. 1947, 50; x, Feb. 1955, 36-7, illus.; L. Noppen et al, Quebec - Trois siecles d‘Architecture, 1979, 192, illus.; N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 77-8, illus. plates 108-112)
LAVAL CHAPEL, commemorative chapel for Monsigneur de Laval, 1950 (Architecture Batiment Construction, v, Sept. 1950, 24, illus.)
Adrien DUFRESNE (works elsewhere)
(with Amyot, Bouchard & Rinfret) BOISCHATEL, QUE., Roman Catholic church, 1937 (C.R., Vol. L, 10 March 1937, 27)
LIMESTONE, MAINE, USA, Roman Catholic church, 1937, but project not built (l’Action Catholique [Quebec City], 6 Nov. 1937, 1, with port.; N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, illus. plates 70-71)
(with Jean B. Gagnon) STE. SOPHIE, CO. MEGANTIC, QUE., Roman Catholic Church, 1940 (N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 69-70, illus. plates 72-4)
L’ISLET, QUE., interiors for St. Clement Roman Catholic church, 1940 (N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 261, list of works)
L’ISLET, QUE., Roman Catholic School for the Rev. Soeurs du Bon Pasteur, 1944-45 (C.R., lvii, 20 Dec. 1944, 25; lviii, Aug. 1945, 152)
NEW RICHMOND, QUE., Roman Catholic hospital, 1944 (C.R., lvii, 9 Aug. 1944, 50)
ST. GREGOIRE, QUE., major addition to the Roman Catholic church, 1945 (C.R., lviii, Aug. 1945, 154)
PETERBOROUGH, ONT., Nazarene Gospel Service Church, George Street North, 1946 (C.R., lix, Sept. 1946, 144)
NOTRE DAME DE LA GUADELOUPE, QUE., [Frontenac Co.], Roman Catholic Church, 1946 (Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, Oct. 1947, 38-9, illus.; N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 74, illus. plates 96-7)
ST. EVARISTE DE BEAUCE, QUE., Roman Catholic church, 1946 (C.R., lix, Oct. 1946, 96)
SILLERY, QUE., residence for Dr. Charles A. Painchaud, Delaune Street, 1946 (C.H.G., xxiv, Jan. 1947, 28, illus.)
CHICOUTIMI, QUE., a 4 storey telephone exchange building for the Saguenay-Quebec Telephone Co., Lafontaine Street near Jacques Cartier Street, 1947-48; converted to social housing, c. 2000 (C.R., lx, July 1947, p. 106; Le Lingot [Arvida], 24 Sept. 1948, 1 & 6, illus.; inf. Scott Edwards)
ST. GEORGES EAST, QUE. Hotel Dieu du Precieux Sang Roman Catholic hospital, 1948 (C.R., lxi, March 1948, 172)
BATHURST, N.B., Sacred Heart University, an Assembly Room and Dining Hall, 1949 (C.R., lxii, May 1949, 154)
COWANSVILLE, QUE., reconstruction of the Ste. Therese Roman Catholic Church after a fire, 1949-50 (C.R., lxii, Aug. 1949, 222, t.c.; Architecture Batiment Construction, vi, June 1951, 10-11, illus.; N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 77, illus. plates 104-07)
SEPT ILES, QUE., office building for the Dept. of Public Works, c. 1950 (dwgs. Laval Univ., Adrien Dufresne Coll.)
CAP DE LA MADELEINE, [Trois Rivieres] QUE., Notre Dame du Cap Roman Catholic Basilica, designed 1948, built 1955-64 (Architecture Batiment Construction, iii, Feb. 1948, 26, illus.; Oct. 1948, 33, illus.; v, Sept. 1950, 25, illus.; N. Tardif-Painchaud, Dom Bellot et l’architecture religieuse au Quebec, 1978, 79-80, illus. Plates 113-17, 120-21)