HORWOOD, Allan Wilfred (1882-1950), a member of the well-known Horwood family of architects who lived and worked in Ottawa and Winnipeg. All three were brothers, consisting of Edgar L. Horwood (1868-1957), Victor W. Horwood (1878-1939), and Allan W. Horwood, the youngest of the three. Allan W. was active in the following firms in Ottawa:
Horwood, Taylor & Horwood, Ottawa, 1911-14 (with L. Fennings Taylor, and his brother Edgar L. Horwood)
Allan Horwood, Ottawa, 1918-28
Horwood & Horwood, Ottawa, 1929-30 (with his brother Edgar L. Horwood)
Allan Horwood, Ottawa, 1931-34
Burritt & Horwood, Ottawa, 1935-37 (with Clarence J. Burritt)
Allan Horwood, Ottawa, 1938-50
Allan was born in Prescott, Ont. on 14 November 1882. He was educated at Ottawa Collegiate Institute, and spent six years training as a student in the Ottawa office of his older brother Edgar Horwood (in 1900-06), and with Edgar’s office called Horwood & Taylor (in 1906-11). He was made a full partner of that office in 1911, but during WWI he left to take a position as Supervisor of the architectural staff of the Military Hospital Commission. In 1918 Allan opened his own office in Ottawa and practised alone until 1928 when he rejoined his older brother Edgar in the new firm of Horwood & Horwood (1929-30).
He then opened an office under his own name and remained active until 1935 when he was invited to form a partnership with Clarence J. Burritt (see list of works under Burritt & Horwood). Their collaboration was brief, and lasted for only two years, and Allan H. then worked under his own name until his death in 1950. He died near Manotick, Ont. on 8 September 1950 (obituary Evening Journal [Ottawa], 9 Sept. 1950, 20; 11 Sept. 1950, 9; obit. Daily Citizen [Ottawa], 11 Sept. 1950, 14; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects)
Allan HORWOOD (works in Ottawa unless noted)
QUEEN STREET, at O’Connor Street, office building for the Dept. of Public Works, 1918 (C.R., xxxii, 13 March 1918, 43)
AYLMER, QUE., I.O.D.E. Memorial Hall, 1919 (Ottawa Journal, 7 May 1919, 10, illus. & descrip.)
HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH, Echo Drive near Graham Avenue, south of the Pretoria Bridge, in Ottawa East, 1919, later renamed Church of the Ascension (Ottawa Journal, 25 July 1919, 4)
PERTH, ONT., Perth Memorial Hospital, 1921 (C.R., xxxv, 1 June 1921, 43; and xxxvi, 29 March 1922, 56, t.c.)
OTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETY, Mann Avenue near Henderson Avenue, 1933 (Ottawa Journal, 19 Sept. 1933, 4, descrip.; C.R., xlvii, 11 Oct. 1933, 974)
KENT STREET, at Nepean Street, 3 storey apartment block for S. Epstein, 1937-38 (Ottawa Journal, 11 Dec. 1937, 6)
MacLAREN STREET, at O’Connor Street, apartment block for an unnamed client, 1938 (C.R., li, 15 June 1938, 46)
AYLMER, QUE., a Municipal Hall for South Hull, Aylmer Road near Deschenes Road, 1939 (Ottawa Journal, 20 July 1939, 18, t.c.; and 8 Aug. 1939, 3, descrip.; and 22 Nov. 1939, 15, descrip.)
SHERWOOD DRIVE, at McFarlane Avenue, residence for Harold R. Hooper, 1939 (Ottawa Journal, 20 July 1939, 12, descrip.)
MEDICAL-DENTAL BUILDING, Metcalfe Street at MacLaren Street, a 4 storey medical building, 1946 (Ottawa Citizen, 14 Jan. 1946, 2, illus., and p. 8, descrip.; C.R., lix, Feb. 1946, 113)
McMULLEN & PERKINS LTD., Laurier Avenue West near Lyon Street, major addition, 1947; demol. c. 1985 (Ottawa Journal, 9 Oct. 1947, 27)
HULL, QUE., public school for the South Hull Protestant School Board, 1949 (C.R., lxii, March 1949, 138)
F.J. SHOULDICE CONSTRUCTION CO., warehouse and offices, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, May 1950, 148)