LENNOX, Charles David (1862-1949) was the brother of the well-known Toronto architect Edward J. Lennox. Born in Toronto on 27 November 1862, he trained under the supervision of his older brother from 1880 until 1885. In that year, he moved to New York City and joined the firm of Jardine & Jardine, Architects. During this period, his brother is reputed to have sent Charles on a trip to Pittsburgh to study the newly completed Allegheny County Court House, designed by the leading American architect Henry H. Richardson in 1883 and built in 1883-88. This significant American building was to have a profound influence on both of the Lennox brothers as they devoted nearly ten years to the design, construction and completion of their plans for the Toronto City Hall (1890-99). In 1887, Charles returned to Toronto and rejoined his brother, assisting him with the preparation of drawings for commercial, residential, industrial and ecclesiastical commissions, as well as their competition-winning scheme for the City Hall.
Charles Lennox was a capable draftsman and designer in his own right, and he can be credited with several small projects with which he alone was associated. He left his brothers’ firm in June 1915 and enlisted with the Canadian Army Third Battalion, and was later promoted to corporal during WWI (Const., xi, March 1918, 75). After his return to Toronto in 1919 he took a position with the staff of the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario and designed several power stations and transformer stations for that company between 1919 and 1931. Charles retired in 1934 and died in Toronto on 22 February 1949 (obit. Telegram [Toronto], 23 Feb. 1949, 4; Toronto Star, 23 Feb. 1949, 32; Globe & Mail [Toronto], 24 Feb. 1949, 12; inf. Erma Lennox Sutcliffe; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects).
TORONTO ARMOURY, University Avenue, memorial tablet for the Battle Column Association, in honour of the campaign of 1885 (C.A.B., xi, March 1898, 51, illus.)
TORONTO ISLAND, a summer cottage, 1901 (Toronto Architectural Eighteen Club, 1901, 59, illus.)
CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION (Anglican), Woodbine Avenue at Milverton Boulevard, 1912 (The First Fifty Years - Church of the Resurrection 1912-1962, 8, illus.)
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST ANGLICAN CHURCH, Norway, Woodbine Avenue at Kingston Road, 1915, a major addition and extension to the church originally designed by Charles J. Gibson, (130 Years at Church of St. John The Baptist, Norway, 1980, 19)