GREENSPOON, Henry Eli (1909-2001), active in Montreal, Quebec from 1934 until after 1970. He was born in Montreal on 15 August 1909 and attended public and high schools there, and later studied architecture at McGill University where he graduated in 1933. He trained in the office of Fetherstonhaugh & Durnford in 1933-34, and in the summer of 1934 an announcement appeared in the R.A.I.C. Journal, xi, July-Aug. 1934, 124 regarding the formation of a new architectural partnership between Greenspoon and another McGill graduate Milton Eliasoph (see list of works under Eliasoph & Greenspoon).
Their collaboration ended in 1942 and Greenspoon worked under his own name until 1950 when he was joined by two new partners Philip Freedlander and Joseph Dunne. Their successful practise lasted more than twenty years, and they completed major commissions in Montreal, in Ottawa, and elsewhere in western Quebec and in eastern Ontario. Their professional reputation was considerably enhanced by their association with leading world-renowned modernist architects who were commissioned to complete major works in Montreal such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe of Chicago, Pier L. Nervi and Luigi Moretti of Milan, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill of New York City. In each case, Greenspoon and his firm served as the local associate architects, coordinating and supervising construction of major projects such as Place Victoria (1964-65), Westmount Square (1966-67) and CIL House (1961-62).
Greenspoon retired after 1975 and moved to Sarasota, Florida in 1979. He later died there on 18 May 2001, and was buried at Palms Memorial Park in Sarasota (inf. P.Q.A.A. Members file; biog. and port. in the National Reference Book, Vol. 9, 1951, 255)
H.E. GREENSPOON
(works in Montreal unless noted)
OTTAWA, ONT., Shaffer’s Department Store, Rideau Street near Dalhousie Street, 1944 (Ottawa Journal, 10 Jan. 1944, 11, illus.)
OUTREMONT, Adath Israel School & Community Centre, Ducharme Avenue, 1944; with extension to School by Greenspoon & Freedlander, 1950 (C.R., xvii, 27 Sept. 1944, 24; lxiii, Jan. 1950, 144; Town of Outremont b.p. 4069, 1 May 1946)
WESTMOUNT, apartment block for Greenvale Realty Co., Shorncliffe Avenue, 1944 (C.R., lvii, 21 June 1944, 50)
ST. DENIS STREET, a movie theatre for General Theatres Quebec Ltd., 1946 (C.R., lix, July 1946, 105)
(with Grattan B. Thompson) UNION ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO., Vitre Street at Bleury Street, office building and warehouse, 1946 (C.R., lix, June 1946, 141)
SHAAR ZION JEWISH SYNAGOGUE, Cote St. Luc Road, addition of a community centre, 1946 (C.R., lix, April 1946, 148)
SHUCHAT BUILDING, Mountain Street, for M. Shuchat, 1946 (C.R., lix, Feb. 1946, 112)
OUTREMONT, a row of four duplexes for Sharewood Realty Corp., Pratt Avenue, 1946-47 (Town of Outremont b.p. 4167, 12 Dec. 1946)
VAL MORIN, QUE., Ohel Moshe Jewish Synagogue, 10th Avenue, 1947-48; later converted to Theatre du Marais (inf. Municipalite de Val Morin, Structural Engineering Report by Luc Laliberte, Engineer, 13 April 2013, p. 8; inf. Scott Edwards)
ODEON MERCIER MOVIE THEATRE, Ste. Catherine Street East at De La Salle Avenue, 1947-48 (Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, Nov. 1947, 29-32, illus.)
ODEON CREMAZIE MOVIE THEATRE, St. Denis Street near Cremazie Boulevard East, 1947-48 (Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, Nov. 1947, 13, 30, 32, illus.)
WESTMOUNT, movie theatre for Cine Monde Canada Corp., Victoria Avenue, 1947 (C.R., lx, July 1947, 103)
ODEON CHAMPLAIN MOVIE THEATRE, Ste. Catherine Street East at Papineau Street, 1947 (C.R., lx, Feb. 1947, 149)
OUTREMONT, residence for H.M. Caiserman, Maplewood Avenue, 1948 (Town of Outremont b.p. 4326, 7 May 1948)
OUTREMONT, residence for Abraham Cohen, Pagnuelo Avenue, 1948 (Town of Outremont b.p. 4386, 1 Sept. 1948)
(with Gabriel Desmeules) QUEBEC CITY, QUE., stores and light manufacturing building for L’Edifice Commercial Ltee, 1948 (C.R., lxi, June 1948, 164)
GREENSPOON, FREEDLANDER & DUNNE
WESTMOUNT, large residence for Mrs. Harry Freid, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, Jan. 1950, 156)
WESTMOUNT, new office building for the architectural firm of Greenspoon, Friedlander & Dunne, Sherbrooke Street West near Elm Avenue, 1950 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxvii, June 1950, 191, illus.)
OUTREMONT, residence for J. Reiskind, Duchastel Avenue, 1952 (Town of Outremont b.p. 5226, 22 Oct. 1952)
OTTAWA, ONT., Ottawa Fruit Supply Ltd., Industrial Avenue near Alta Vista Drive, large office and warehouse, 1957 (Ottawa Journal, 9 Nov. 1957, 22, illus. & descrip.)
OTTAWA, ONT., apartment block for NC Properties Ltd., Nelson Street at Cornwall Street, 1961 (Ottawa Journal, 24 Feb. 1961, 5)
(with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) CANADIAN INDUSTRIES LIMITED [C.I.L.] Tower, Dorchester Boulevard West, 1961-62 (Canadian Architect, iv, April 1959, 70, illus. & descrip.; vii, June 1962, 52-63, illlus. & descrip.)
(with Pier Luigi Nervi and Luigi Moretti) PLACE VICTORIA, St. James Street at Victoria Square, 1964-65 (Canadian Architect, x, July 1965, 37-54, illus. & descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, xlii, Oct. 1965, 60-73, illus. & descrip.)
(with Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe) WESTMOUNT, Westmount Square, Ste. Catherine Street West at Wood Avenue, a commercial and residential complex, 1966-67 (Canadian Architect, x, April 1965, 52-3, illus.; Canadian Architect Yearbook 1968, xiii, 91-92, illus. & descrip.)