McEVERS, Harold Eric (1893- 1963), a native of Montreal, Que. who was born there on 11 July 1893. He studied architecture at McGill University, and was an Associate member of the Royal Inst. of British Architects. In 1918 he was recorded as preparing plans for extensive alterations to the Franklin A. Hough House, Laird Avenue South, at the historic site of Fort Malden, at Amherstburg, Ont. McEvers opened an office in Windsor, Ont. in early 1921 (C.R., xxxv, 13 April 1921, 371), and the following year he won the competition for the design of the Walkerville Hydro Electric Commission Offices. His refined Beaux-Arts design for this landmark was one of ten entries examined by the jury.
McEvers appears to have left Canada in 1924 and he moved to Detroit. By 1930 he was living and working as an architect in Philadelphia, and by 1935 he had moved to Camden New Jersey, across the Delaware River from downtown Philadelphia (Camden City Directory, 1940, 495). In Camden, he held the position of Chief Architect for the William M. Flinn Realty Co. (Courier-Post [Camden], 16 Nov. 1935, 20). No information has been found on his activity after 1943. He may be the same "Harold Eric McEvers" who was living in San Mateo, Los Angeles, and who died there on 21 January 1963.
AMHERSTBURG, ONT., major alterations to residence for Franklin A. Hough, Laird Avenue South, opposite the historic site of Fort Malden, 1918 ((inf. James De Jonge, Parks Canada, Ottawa)
AMHERSTBURG, ONT., General Amherst High School, Sandwich Street South, facing Wigle Park, 1921; still standing in 2022 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 25 June 1921, 11, descrip.; and 28 June 1921, 15, t.c.; and 29 April 1922, 14, detailed architectural descrip.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., Walkerville Hydro Electric Commission Showroom & Offices, Wyandotte Street at Argyle Road, 1921-22, a project won in a competition (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 29 Nov. 1921, 3, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xxxvi, 22 March 1922, 271; Const., xv, March 1922, 74)
AMHERSTBURG, an outdoor Memorial Arch, honoring WW1 Soldiers, Sandwich Street, 1922 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 12 July 1922, 10, descrip.)