STAHL, KINSEY & CHAPMAN, architects of Detroit, Michigan, active 1910 to 1915, were recorded as the designers of a number of commercial and residential works in Windsor, Ontario, directly across the Detroit River from their main office in Detroit. The firm consisted for John Clarence Stahl Jr. (1877-1943), and John Emerson Kinsey, Sr. (1873-1962), together with the engineer Washington Hobart Chapman (1876-c. 1950). Both Stahl and Kinsey formed a partnership in Detroit in early 1912 (Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 1912, Section Two, p. 12). Stahl was a native of Elkhart, Indiana, but Kinsey was a Canadian, born in Ontario on 7 January 1873, and he may have trained as an engineer in Essex County before moving to Michigan. He joined the partnership of Stahl & Kinsey in late 1913 or early 1914, but their collaboration appears to have ended in 1916 when the United States joined the overseas war effort in Europe. Stahl later died at Elkhart, Indiana on 5 December 1943; Kinsey died in Livingstone County, Michigan on 15 September 1962.
(works in Ontario)
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WALKERVILLE, ONT., several terraces of family houses, Monmouth Road, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 14 Feb. 1912, 66)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., Dominion Paint Co., Argyle Road at Ottawa Street, a five storey factory, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 21 Feb. 1912, 70)
(with Hogle & Davis, Montreal) WALKERVILLE, ONT., Merchant’s Bank, Victoria Avenue at Wyandotte Street East, 1912-13 (Evening Record [Windsor], 14 Oct. 1912, 3, t.c.; Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 1913, Section Two, p. 16)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., Berry Brothers Ltd., Walker Road, major addition to varnish works, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 30 Aug. 1913, 1)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., large summer residence for W.S. Marshall of Detroit, located on Riverside Drive East, "..on the river front" facing the Detroit River, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 30 Aug. 1913, 1)
FORD CITY, ONT., Merchant's Bank, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 30 Aug. 1913, 1)
TOWNSHIP OF SANDWICH EAST, country residence for Frank Walker, on the Walker Road, "...located 4 miles south of Walkerville", 1913-14 (Evening Record [Windsor], 30 Oct. 1913, 8, descrip.; C.R., xxvii, 12 Nov. 1913, 72, t.c.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., a large one storey brick factory for Canadian Detroit Lubricator Co., Walker Road, 1912-13 (Evening Record [Windsor], 8 Nov. 1912, 10, descrip.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., large residence for J.A. McDougall, Devonshire Road at Tuscarora Street, 1913 (Evening Record [Windsor], 31 Oct. 1913, 9, illus. & descrip.)
STAHL, KINSEY & CHAPMAN
WALKERVILLE, ONT., residence [or rectory] on Argyle Road for Rev. Fr. Hubert N. Robert, adjacent to St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church, 1914 (Evening Record [Windsor], 16 June 1914, 7; Detroit Free Press, 17 June 1914, 8)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., large residence for Mrs. E.C. Walker, Kildare Road, 1914 (C.R., xxviii, 7 Oct. 1914, 62)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., King George Public School, Ottawa Street at Kildare Road, 1913-14 (Evening Record [Windsor], 12 Aug. 1913, 1; 3 Oct. 1913, 9, descrip.; 14 March 1914, 3, illus. & descrip.; 21 Jan. 1915, 3, illus. & descrip.)
WALKERVILLE, ONT., an extensive iron fence with limestone piers surrounding “Willistead”, the properties of Hiram Walker, Niagara Street, c. 1915 (Parks Canada, Canada’s Historic Places, designation statement 12 January 1976 - online).
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SANDWICH, ONT., Essex County Municipal Building, 1914. The Detroit firm of Stahl, Kinsey & Chapman was one of three local architectural offices from the Windsor area who submitted plans for this building (Detroit Free Press, 29 Jan. 1914, 12).