TAYLOR, George Nelson (fl. 1893- c. 1929) was active in the B.C. Interior and first appears as an architect in Nelson where he prepared the plans for the Kootenay Lake General Hospital in 1893. By 1896 he has moved to nearby Rossland, B.C. (Henderson’s British Columbia Directory, 1897, 833). He was credited with the design of a three storey Opera House (1896), and in 1899 he was paid fees of $202.00 for preparing plans for the Court House in that town. Those plans appear to have been later set aside and the commission for the Court House was awarded to John J. Honeyman. By 1902 Taylor had moved to Trout Lake City, B.C. to continue to work as an architect, but he disappears in 1905. He may be the same “G.N. Taylor, Architect” who listed in Manitoba in 1915, operating an office as an architect in the town of The Pas where he was given the commission to design the Provincial Court House (1916-17). He left The Pas in August 1923 and moved to Sheridan, Wyoming; by 1924 he had moved again, this time to Denver, Colorado where was listed as an architect from 1924 to 1929 (Denver City Directory, 1924, p. 2148).
NELSON, B.C., Kootenay Lake General Hospital, 1893 (The Miner [Nelson], 27 May 1893, 5, t.c.)
NELSON, B.C., residence for Capt. M. Morris, Stanley Street at Latimer Street, 1894 (The Miner [Nelson], 24 March 1894, 1)
ROSSLAND, B.C., an Opera House, Le Roi Avenue, for C.A. Baldwin, 1896 (C.R, vii, 29 Oct. 1896, 2)
ROSSLAND, B.C, a public school, 1898 (B.C., Sessional Papers, 1899, Public Accounts, 619)
ROSSLAND, B.C., Provincial Court House, 1899, but the commission was later carried out by John J. Honeyman (B.C., Sessional Papers, 1900, Public Accounts, 111)
ROSSLAND, B.C., commercial block for H.S. Wallace, Stationary & Books, East Columbia Avenue, 1899 (C.R., x, 22 Feb. 1899, 3)
TROUT LAKE CITY, B.C., Oddfellow's Hall, 1902 (Lardeau Mining Review [Trout Lake City], 14 Dec. 1905, 1, descrip.)
THE PAS, MANITOBA, public school, 1915 (C.R., xxix, 23 June 1915, 50, t.c.)
THE PAS, MANITOBA, Court House & Jail, Fischer Avenue, 1916-17 (C.R., xxx, 9 Aug. 1916, 44; Herald & Mining News [The Pas], 18 Aug. 1916, 4; M. Carter, Early Canadian Court Houses,1983, 224, illus.)