TACHE, Eugene Etienne (1836-1912)
(biography in preparation)
The Archives Nationales du Quebec on the campus of Laval University in Quebec City holds an extensive collection of original drawings and sketches by Tache, including many for projects which were never built. A photographic portrait of Tache can be found at the McCord Museum, Montreal (Notman Albums, Item 49521 and 49522).
E.E. TACHE (works in Quebec City unless noted)
TRIUMPHAL ARCHES, a series of nine arches erected to celebrate the bicentennial of the founding of the Diocese of Quebec in Quebec City, 1874 (L. Noppen & G. Deschenes, Quebec’s Parliament Building - Witness to History, 1986, 50-1, illus.)
(with Jean B. Derome) PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT BUILDING, Dufferin Avenue, designed 1877; built 1884-87 (Le Journal de Quebec [Quebec City], 16 Feb. 1875, 2; Manitoba Daily Free Press [Winnipeg], 26 Dec. 1882, 1, descrip.; Le Journal de Quebec [Quebec City], 18 June 1884, 2, descrip.; Montreal Daily Star, 19 June 1884, 2; L. Noppen et al, Quebec - Trois siecles d’architecture, 1979, 83, 92, 268-9, illus; C. Cameron & J. Wright, Second Empire Style in Canadian Architecture, 1980, 68-9, illus.; L. Noppen & M. Grignon, L’art de l’architecte: Three Centuries of Architectural Drawing in Quebec City, 1983, 266-7, 276-7, illus.; L. Noppen & G. Deschenes, Quebec’s Parliament Building - Witness to History, 1986, 50-63, illus. & descrip.; H. Kalman, History of Canadian Architecture, 1994, 550-1, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. at ANQ, Quebec City)
(with Jean B. Derome) PALAIS DE JUSTICE DE QUEBEC, St. Louis Street, 1883-89 (Province of Quebec, Dept. of Public Works, Annual Report for the Year Ending 30 June 1883, 223; L. Noppen et al, Quebec - Trois siecles d’architecture, 1979, 288-9, illus.)
ARC DE TRIOMPHE, Desjardins Street at Ste. Anne Street, erected for the celebration of the nomination of the first Roman Catholic cardinal, 1886 (L. Noppen et al, Quebec - Trois siecles d’architecture, 1979, 85, illus.)
DRILL HALL, Grande Allee, for the Federal Dept. of Public Works, 1884-85; heavily damaged by fire April 2008, with only the façade and two towers left standing; rebuilt and restored 2014-17 (Canada, Sessional Papers, Report of the Chief Architect, xviii, No. 10, 1885, 29, descrip.; American Architect & Building News [Boston], xxii, 24 Dec. 1887, 302 & illus. plate; xxiii, 18 Feb. 1888, 78 and illus. plate; C.A.B., xi, Aug. 1898, 137, descrip. with illus. plate; Building [Toronto], lxviii, No. 6, Dec. 2018/Jan. 2019, 27-29, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. at NAC, RG 11, Vol. 3912, 188-94, and Vol. 3917, 129-38, illus.)
MILITARY HORSE STABLES & RIDING GROUNDS, Grande Allee, 1888 (L. Noppen et al, Quebec - Trois siecles d’architecture, 1979, 128, illus.)
CARTIER-BREBEUF MONUMENT, St. Charles Street, 1889 (J.R. Harper, Early Painters & Engravers in Canada, 1970, 303)
MONTCALM MONUMENT, Grande Allee, c. 1890 (dwgs. ANQ, Tache Coll.)
GARRISON CLUB, St. Louis Street, 1891 (L. Noppen et al, Quebec - Trois siecles d’architecture, 1979, 380-81, illus.)
ROYAL VISIT COMMEMORATIVE ARCHWAY, for the visit of the Duke & Duchess of York, a vast arch 80 ft. high and 300 ft. long, to be erected in front of the Quebec Parliament Building, 1901 (Montreal Daily Star, 23 Aug. 1901, 6, descrip.)