FIELD, George William Eden (1862-1945), an architect and civil engineer active in Toronto from 1885 until 1888. Born in Tifford, Ireland in 1862, he arrived in Toronto before 1885 and received a major commission in 1886 to design a substantial Gothic parish hall for Bloor Street Presbyterian Church, Bloor Street West at Huron Street (1886-88). This elaborate building, located at the north end of the property and still standing today (as of 2016) was intended to serve a temporary worship space until funds were raised to construct the main church facing Bloor Street West, and later designed by William R. Gregg in 1890. Field appears to have left Toronto in late 1888; he is almost certainly the same “George W.E. Field, architect” recorded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1889 where he won First Prize in a national design competition for a $2,000 Frame Dwelling sponsored by the New York City architectural journal called Carpentry & Building, Vol. xi, April 1889, 71, descrip., with illus. plates XIII to XV. Field later returned to Toronto and died there on 5 November 1945 (death notice Toronto Daily Star, 7 Nov. 1945, 23).
(works in Toronto unless noted)
BLOOR STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Bloor Street West at Huron Street, a Parish Hall and Sunday School facing Huron Street, 1886-88; still standing 2016 (Toronto Daily Mail, 7 Dec. 1886, 12; Seventy Years at Bloor Street - A History of Bloor Street United Church 1887-1957, 3, descrip., with illus. p. 26 (ff).
CLINTON STREET, at the southwest corner of Henderson Avenue, a row of six 2-storey houses for an unnamed client, 1887 (Globe [Toronto], 21 May 1887, 14, t.c.)
KING STREET WEST, near Niagara Street, a row of three houses for an unnamed client, 1887 (Globe [Toronto], 11 June 1887, 13, t.c.)
DESERONTO, ONT., St. Marks Anglican Church, Dundas Street, 1887; church closed 2001 and converted to a private residence; still standing in 2023 (Dominion Churchman [Toronto], 27 Oct. 1887, 646)