GREENE, Gerald Elliot Denbigh (1888-1973), active in Toronto, Ont. where he was in partnership with Lawrence C.M. Baldwin from 1924 to 1933 (see list of works under Baldwin & Greene). Born in Toronto on 10 April 1888, he attended Upper Canada College and later studied civil engineering at the University of Toronto where he graduated in 1906.
From 1919 to 1924 he worked as a designer and structural engineer in the Toronto office of William Steele & Sons, assisting them with preparation of drawings for major additions to the Toronto Carpet Manufacturing Co. complex on King Street West which were constructed in 1919 and 1923. In late 1924 he was invited by L.C.M. Baldwin to form a new partnership in Toronto, and during the next ten years their office was busy and successful, completing designs for major commercial and residential projects. It is likely that Greene provided much of the structural engineering expertise required by the firm for their major high rise projects in Toronto including the Concourse Building, Adelaide Street West (1928), the Wellington Building, Wellington Street West (1928), and the Victory Building, Richmond Street West (1929; completed 1936 by Marani, Lawson & Morris).
Their successful practise suffered from a dearth of work during the Depression, and it was dissolved in 1933, and only a few references to architectural work by either partner after this date have been found. Greene later worked as the Toronto representative of Austin Co. Ltd. Engineers & Builders from 1939 to 1948. His name was removed from membership in the Ontario Assoc. of Architects for non-payment of fees in 1943. Greene died in Toronto on 13 June 1973 (inf. Ontario Association of Architects; inf. Mrs. Elizabeth Rhind, Toronto). The City of Toronto Archives holds a collection of drawings and sketches prepared by the firm of Baldwin & Greene during the period from 1923 to 1933.
TORONTO, ONT., Secord Animal Hospital & Clinic, Yonge Street near Roxborough Street East, for Dr. Alan Secord, 1937 (Toronto Daily Star, 2 July 1937, 5, detailed descrip.)