NOXON, Kenneth Furby (1900-1979), active in Toronto where he was in partnership with Bruce H. Wright (see list of works under Wright & Noxon). Born in Toronto on 3 February 1900, he was educated at the Normal School on Gould Street, then studied architecture at the School of Practical Science at the Univ. of Toronto where he graduated in 1922. His early training was in the office of Langley & Howland, and he returned to the Univ. of Toronto to obtain a Masters of Architecture degree in 1924. He then moved to London, England and attended classes at the Architectural Association, and worked briefly for Sir Edwin Lutyens, one of the masters of 20th C. British architecture. Noxon returned to Toronto and in June 1925 he and B.H. Wright formed a partnership (Const., xviii, June 1925, 20). In 1926 Noxon received a provincial scholarship for the Study of Architecture of the French Renaissance (R.A.I.C. Journal, iii, May/June 1926, 128), and he travelled briefly in France where the influence of period styles was reflected in much of the later residential work designed by the firm in 1927-30.
After the dissolution of the partnership with Bruce H. Wright in 1932, Noxon continued to work under his own name, and later became President & Manager of Metalsmiths Co. Ltd., a fabricator of custom architectural metal work and fittings. He resigned from the Ontario Assoc. of Architects in December 1960, and died in Unionville, Ont. on 14 October 1979 (death notice Globe & Mail [Toronto], 17 Oct. 1979, 48; biog. Who’s Who in Canada, ii, 1936-37, 833; inf. Ontario Association of Architects).
(works in Toronto unless noted)
WOODLAWN AVENUE EAST, near Summerhill Gardens, residence for Gordon R. Bongard, 1933-34 (Building in Canada [Toronto], xiv, 29 Dec. 1934, 31, illus.)
SWANSEA, WEST TORONTO, residence for John M. Kinsey, 21 Woodland Heights, overlooking Grenadier Pond, 1937 (Toronto Daily Star, 3 Dec. 1937, 7, illus. & descrip.; C.H.G., xv, June 1938, 24-5, illus.)
SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT., residence for J.S. Anderson, Summit Avenue, 1938 (dwgs. in the possession of Chris Tossell, Architect, Sault Ste. Marie)