LAROSE, Charles Auguste Eugene (1900-1972), active in Montreal for nearly forty years, and architect of educational, university and hospital buildings for several Roman Catholic dioceses in and around that city, and in southern Quebec. Born in Montreal on 26 January 1900, he studied architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique and received his Diploma (with Distinction) in 1921. One of his classmates at the Ecole was Roland Simard, with whom he was to later form a partnership in October 1927. Larose assisted in the office of Joseph Sawyer (in 1918), but gained much of his knowledge of architecture and design working as project architect in the busy and successful office of Viau & Venne from 1921 until early 1927. He then opened his own office in partnership with Simard, but their collaboration was brief, and by early 1930 he was working under his own name.
Larose served as President of the Province of Quebec Association of Architects in 1944, and later formed a partnership with his nephew Gilles L. Larose in 1950. Their office was renamed Larose, Larose, Laliberte & Petrucci in 1957, and together they collaborated with Illsley, Templeton & Archibald on the modernist design of the Dorval Airport Terminal in Montreal. Larose died in Montreal on 9 May 1972 (obit. La Presse [Montreal], 10 May 1972, A9, with port.; Gazette [Montreal], 11 May 1972, 49, with port.; biog. Qui Etes-Vous [Montreal], 1946, 125; inf. Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects, Application for Membership dated 19 May 1939). The Bibliotheque & Archives Nationales in Montreal holds a large collection of drawings by Larose, and the descendant firms for the period from 1928 to 1998 (ANQ, Fonds Larose, Petrucci Architectes)
(works in Montreal unless noted)
LAROSE & SIMARD (works in Montreal unless noted)
COLLEGE NOTRE DAME, Queen Mary Road near Cote des Neiges Road, addition of two new wings, 1927-28 (Canadian Hotel Review, vi, Aug. 1928, 57; Montreal, Les Couvents, 1984, 50-5, illus.)
STE. JEANNE d’ARC HOSPITAL, St. Urbain Street at Prince Arthur Street West, addition of a “Maison des Gardes”, 1928 (PQAA Application for E. Larose, list of works)
PONTEIX, SASK., Notre Dame Roman Catholic Church, 1st Avenue at 2nd Street West, 1929-30, to replace the church built 1923 and designed by J.E. Fortin, which later burned in 1928; church still standing in 2023 (M. Hryniuk & F. Korvemaker, Legacy of Worship: Sacred Places in Rural Saskatchewan, 2014, 77, illus.; PQAA Application for E. Larose, list of works; inf. Mrs. M. Kouri, Ponteix; inf. Parks Canada, Canada,s Historic Places, Designation Statement 11 October 2005)
E. LAROSE (works in Montreal unless noted)
ST. FRANCOIS SOLANO ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Dandurand Street at 16th Avenue, 1930 (C. & K. Garcia, L’Architecture Art Deco et les Ecoles de la Commission Scolaire de Montreal, 2010)
GABRIEL LALEMANT ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Bellechasse Street East at Fullum Street, 1930 (Gazette [Montreal], 27 Aug. 1930, 5, descrip., but lacking attribution; inf. Commission Scolaire de Montreal; inf. Scott Edwards)
ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Bullion Street, major addition, 1931 (C.R., xlv, 8 April 1931, 84)
CHERRIER ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Cherrier Street at St. Hubert Street, 1931 (C.R., xlv, 5 Aug. 1931, 93; R.A.I.C. Journal, ix, Dec. 1932, 264-65, illus. & descrip.; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 24-7, illus.; Tim Morawetz, Art Deco Architecture Across Canada, 2017, 101, illus. & descrip.)
NOTRE DAME DE LA DEFENSE ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, with adjacent Teacher's Residence, Drolet Street near Belanger Street, 1932-33 (C.R., xlvi, 21 Sept. 1932, 96; xlvii, 4 Jan. 1933, 32; Gazette [Montreal], 28 Feb. 1922, 15, descrip.)
HULL, QUE., a Sanatorium for the Congregation of the Grey Nuns of the Cross, Columbia Park, in Ward No. 1, 1935 (Ottawa Journal, 14 Sept. 1935, 30)
MADELEINE APARTMENTS, Jarry Street at Casgrain Street, for Elie Gerard, 1937 (C.R., Vol. L, 19 May 1937, 36)
ROVERVAL, QUE., St. Michel Sanatorium for the Hotel Dieu, 1937-38; addition to the main hospital of the Hotel Dieu, 1940-41; Nurse’s Home, 1949 (C.R., Vol. L, 1 Dec. 1937, 29; li, 11 May 1938, 33; liii, 9 Oct. 1940, 20; liv, 12 March 1941, 33; lxii, Jan. 1949, 190)
(with Leonce Desgagne) CHICOUTIMI, QUE., Roman Catholic Convent for the Sisters Antoniennes de Marie, 1938 (C.R., li, 6 April 1938, 35)
ST. BARTHELEMI, QUE., Roman Catholic convent and chapel for the Sisters of Jesus & Mary, 1940 (C.R., liii, 24 April 1940, 22)
HUBERDEAU, QUE., Roman Catholic orphanage for the Freres de Notre Dame de la Misericorde, 1941 (C.R., liv, 20 Aug. 1941, 35)
OUTREMONT, duplex house for W. Landry, Durocher Avenue, 1945 (Outremont b.p. 3930, 4 May 1945)
OUTREMONT, Roman Catholic chapel and provincial house for the Institut des Clercs de St. Viateur, Querbes Street, 1946-47 (C.R., lix, Sept. 1946, 140; Outremont b.p. 4151, 4 Nov. 1946)
MONTREAL NORTH, QUE., Roman Catholic juvenat and retreat house for Clercs de St. Viateur, Charleroi Street, 1947 (C.R., lx, Feb. 1947, 144)
OKA, QUE., Roman Catholic juvenat and Mother House for the Freres de l’Instruction Chretienne, 1948 (C.R., lxi, April 1948, 144)
CARILLON, QUE., Roman Catholic novitiate for the Revs. Freres de Ste. Croix, 1949 (C.R., lxii, Jan. 1949, 188)
COLLEGE NOTRE DAME, Queen Mary Road near Cote des Neiges Road, addition of the St. Joseph Dormitory, and renovation of the old dormitory to be converted for classrooms, 1950 (Montreal, Les Couvents, 1984, 50-55, illus.)
LAROSE & LAROSE (works in Montreal unless noted)
EAST MONTREAL, public baths, Notre Dame Street East, 1950-51 (C.R., lxiii, Dec. 1950, 110)
COLLEGE ST. LAURENT, Sainte Croix Boulevard, demolition of the Maison des Philosophes, and construction of a new Pavillon de Philosophy & Science, 1952-53; new gymnasium, 1955-56; addition of the north wing for the Sainte Croix Seminary, 1956-57 (Montreal, Les Couvents, 1984, 32-43, illus.)