NOSWORTHY, Alfred George (1883-1969) was active in Quebec City in a brief partnership with Wilfrid Lacroix in 1917-18 (see list of works under Lacroix & Nosworthy). Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland on 12 February 1883, he studied architecture and engineering at the Massachusetts Inst. of Technology in Boston, and after graduating from MIT he moved to Montreal to take up the post of assistant architect with the Grand Trunk Railway offices there. He relocated to Quebec City before 1915 and opened an office under his own name in early 1916. In June 1917 he was invited to form a partnership with Wilfrid Lacroix, but their collaboration was brief, and their firm was dissolved by mutual consent in 1919. Nosworthy then moved to Montreal and opened an office under his own name as ‘architect and industrial engineer’ (Canadian Engineer [ Montreal], xxxvii, 18 Dec. 1919, 554). His practise included residential and commercial works, and in June 1927 he formed a new partnership with Morrie E. Coshof (C.R., xli, 8 June 1927, 580; Const., xx, July 1927, 231). This too appears to have been shortlived; by 1928 Nosworthy was again working independently, designing apartment blocks in an eclectic Tudor Revival style. No references to his work after 1952 have been found. Nosworthy died in Montreal on 22 April 1969 (inf. Bill Lavery, Montreal).
(works with the Grand Trunk Railway)
BAY CITY, MICHIGAN, Grand Trunk Railway Station, Saginaw Street, 1911 (signed drawings by A.G. Nosworthy at NAC, Ottawa, RG30M 945003; inf. Bill Lavery, Montreal)
ALFRED G. NOSWORTHY
QUEBEC CITY, QUE., residence for Patrick J. Moran, Mountain View Boulevard, 1916 (ACQ, Greffe R. Meredith, No. 6396, 20 March 1916)
QUEBEC CITY, QUE., residence for Adelard Dorval, at Mountainview, 1916 (ACQ, Greffe G. E. Paradis, No. 1828, 27 April 1916)
QUEBEC CITY, QUE., residence for J.R. Demers, Levis Avenue near Pere Marquette Street, 1916 (Quebec City b.p. 2513, 12 June 1916)
QUEBEC CITY, QUE., public garage and auto service station, Fabrique Street, 1916 (C.R., xxx, 4 Oct. 1916, 46)
QUEBEC CITY, QUE., New Frontenac Garage, St. Louis Street, for P. Campbell, 1917 (Quebec City b.p. 3203, 31 March 1917)
QUEBEC CITY, QUE., residence for Dr. M.J. Mooney, Grande Allee near Cartier Avenue, 1917 (C.R., xxxi, 11 April 1917, 43, t.c.)
MONTREAL, QUE., Canadian Film Co., production plant, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 25 Feb. 1920, 48, t.c.)
MONTREAL, QUE., Toronto Type Foundry Co., Jurors Street at Hermine Street, office and loft warehouse building, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 19 May 1920, 63)
MONTREAL, QUE., row of twelve flats for Parker Brothers, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 18 Aug. 1920, 53)
MONTREAL, QUE., major addition to the Montreal Chinese Hospital, La Gauchetiere Street West, 1921 (Le Prix Courant [Montreal], liv, 30 Sept. 1921, 80)
MONTREAL, QUE., Mount Vernon Apartments, Edouard Montpetit Boulevard, 1927 (Montreal, Les Appartements, 1991, 178-79, illus.)
MONTREAL, QUE., Westmount Park Apartments, Ste. Catherine Street West at Park Place, for D. McMenamin, 1927 (Daily Commercial News [Toronto], I, 17 Sept. 1927, 5)
OUTREMONT, Lindy Apartments, Van Horne Avenue, for M. Maron, 1927 (City of Outremont b.p. 2160, 1 March 1927)
OUTREMONT, Chamberlain Apartments, Van Horne Avenue, for M. Maron, 1927 (City of Outremont b.p. 2160, 1 March 1927)
NOSWORTHY & COSHOF
MONTREAL, QUE., large residential home for the Hebrew Institution, Bullion Street at Pine Avenue East, 1927 (C.R., xli, 28 Sept. 1927, 51, t.c.)
ALFRED G. NOSWORTHY
WESTMOUNT, QUE., three storey apartment block on Dorchester Boulevard West, for an unnamed client, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 12 Sept. 1928, 54)
WESTMOUNT, QUE., Bristol Myers Co., St. Antoine Street West at Brooke Avenue, 1928-29 (Montreal, Architecture Industrielle, 1982, 84-85, illus.)
UNIVERSITY MANOR APARTMENTS, Edouard Montpetit Boulevard, 1931 (Montreal, Les Appartements, 1991, 185-7, illus.)
OUTREMONT, duplex residence for H. Lazar, Davaar Avenue, 1932 (City of Outremont b.p. 2805, 12 April 1932)
OUTREMONT, QUE., duplex residence for the Construc-Rite Co. Ltd., McNider Avenue, 1936 (City of Outremont b.p. 3112, 3 July 1936)
SOREL, QUE., new Canadian army barracks for training 500 new soldiers, 1940 (Gazette [Montreal], 31 Aug. 1940, 13, descrip.; inf. Bill Lavery, Montreal)
OUTREMONT, QUE., triplex residence for Suburban Construction Ltd., Durocher Avenue, 1952 (City of Outremont b.p. 5053, 3 March 1952)