MacLEAN, Clarendon [Clare] Godwin (1903-1973), active in Toronto, Ont. from 1930 onward, where he specialized in large private houses often designed in a conservative and traditional Georgian or Colonial Revival style. Born in Grimsby, Ont. on 31 October 1903, he attended the collegiate in Napanee, Ont. and enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1921. He graduated from the School of Architecture in 1925, but appears to have worked as an architectural draftsman in Detroit from 1925 onward. His name first appears in Toronto in 1930 as an architect working in the office of Roy H. Bishop, and he assisted him as a draftsman until 1932. He opened his own office in 1933, and was briefly in partnership with Wilbur R. Webb, as MacLean & Webb, Architects, in 1934. He continued to work under his own name from late 1934 until after 1960. His best known work is the extensive office and factory complex for International Business Machines Ltd. in Don Mills, Ont., completed in 1953. No information has been found on his activity after 1966. MacLean died in Toronto on 15 December 1973. A photographic portrait and brief biography of MacLean was published in the University of Toronto Yearbook, Torontonensis, 1925, p. 194.
Clare G. MacLEAN (works in Toronto unless noted)
EAST YORK, residence for Henry A. Tomlin, Don Mills Road near Broadview Avenue, 1933 (C.R., xlvii, 5 April 1933, 35)
(with Wilbur R. Webb) SCARBOROUGH, residence for Jean Brodie Firth, Hill Crescent near Parkcrest Drive, overlooking the Scarborough Bluffs, 1934 (inf. David Soknacki, Scarborough)
NORTH YORK, residence for Newman Fairhead, Highland Crescent, near Hogg’s Hollow, at York Mills, 1934-35 (C.H.G., xii, May 1935, 22-3, illus.)
ROSEDALE, two large houses located "on the Deancroft property", for an unnamed client, 1936 (Daily Commercial News [Toronto], 5 Feb. 1936, 5, illus. & descrip.)
CROYDON ROAD, at Chiltern Hill Road, near Cedarvale Park, residence for A.E. Eccleston, 1936 (Toronto Star, 4 Dec. 1936, 16, illus.)
NORTH YORK, residence for T.D. Bell, in the Armour Heights area, overlooking a ravine, 1936-37 (Toronto Star, 11 Dec. 1936, 11, illus. & descrip.)
HAMBLY AVENUE, residence for Gordon T. Rogers, 1936 (C.H.G., xiv, Jan-Feb. 1937, 35, illus.)
NORTH YORK, a tract of prefabricated houses in the Melrose Park subdivision, on Melrose Avenue, Deloraine Avenue and St. Germaine Avenue, between Avenue Road and Bathurst Street, 1938 (C.R., li, 23 Feb. 1938, 140)
NORTH YORK, residence for Eric H. McHenry, Wood Avenue, 1938 (C.H.G., xv, June 1938, 42, illus.)
NORTH YORK, residence for Allen G. Ballard, Hillhurst Boulevard at Alexandra Wood, 1938 (C.H.G., xv, Aug. 1938, 38, illus.)
CORTLEIGH BOULEVARD, west of Mona Drive, residence for Dr. Lloyd Davis, 1938 (Toronto Star, 30 Sept. 1938, 42, descrip.)
GLEN OAK DRIVE, a pair of detached houses for the Guinane Const. Co., 1940 (City of Toronto b.p. B 68592, 24 June 1940; inf. Barbara Myrvold, Toronto)
GLEN OAK DRIVE, residence for an unnamed client, 1940 (City of Toronto b.p. B 68812, 17 July1940; inf. Barbara Myrvold, Toronto)
SOUTHLEA AVENUE, residence for an unnamed client, located at No. 24 Southlea Avenue, c. 1940 (Toronto Star, 21 Oct. 1940, 25, illus.)
STRATHEARN ROAD, residence for Jules L. Laine, 1940 (C.H.G., xvii, Dec. 1940, 28-32, illus.)
NORTH YORK, De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd., canteen building for staff, Sheppard Avenue West near Keele Street, 1941 (C.R., liv, 1 Jan. 1941, 36)
NORTH YORK, residence for Dr. Douglas H. Varey, Brooke Avenue, 1942-43 (C.H.G., xxi, March 1944, 29, illus.; Aug.-Sept. 1944, 43, illus. in advert.)
PORT CREDIT, ONT., residence for Grant H. Adams, 1945 (C.H.G., xxii, July 1945, 31, illus.)
NORTH YORK, a factory for Campbell Manufacturing & Sporting Goods Co., 1947 (Financial Post [Toronto], 24 May 1947, 9)
SCARBOROUGH, J.H. McNairn Ltd., Birchmount Road near Raleigh Avenue, office and factory, 1948 (Financial Post [Toronto], 17 July 1948, 9)
ETOBICOKE, Canada Motor Products Ltd., facing the Queen Elizabeth Way, warehouse, 1948 (Financial Post [Toronto], 11 Sept. 1948, 3)
THOMAS A. DILLON CO., Dufferin Street near Lappin Avenue, office and factory, 1948-49 (Financial Post [Toronto], 2 Oct. 1948, 17)
McAINSH & CO. LTD., Yonge Street at Woodlawn Avenue, office building, 1950 (Toronto b.p. 7839, 19 May 1950)
I.B.M. CO. LTD., Don Mills Road at Eglinton Avenue East, large office and factory complex, 1950-52; demol. 2019 (Financial Post [Toronto], 11 Feb. 1950, 8, descrip.; and 17 March 1951, 36; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxx, June 1953, 157, illus.)
I.B.M. CO. LTD., Headquarters office building, 36 King Street East near Toronto Street, 1962-63 (Toronto Star, 21 Sept. 1962, 9, illus.; inf. Marybeth McTeague, City of Toronto)