HYSLOP, Fred Kirkpatrick (1888-1979), a prominent architect in Toronto, Ont. best known for his landmark Tudor Revival design of the Windsor Arms Hotel, St. Thomas Street at Sultan Street (1927-28). Originally conceived as an apartment house, this 94 suite block was later converted into a hotel and a fashionable restaurant called Three Small Rooms (designed by Janis Kravis, architect). However, the entire block was radically altered in 1996 when the original hotel building was demolished, and a replica pastiche was erected on the site to resemble the original hotel, but now dominated by a 13 storey condominium tower placed in the centre of the old courtyard.
Hyslop was born in Toronto, Ont. on 1 May 1888 and attended the University of Toronto from 1905 to 1909. During this period, he articled in the office of Beaumont Jarvis, a leading architect in Toronto, from 1905 to 1910, then worked as a junior draftsman in the architectural department of the Toronto Board of Education in 1910-12. From late 1912 to 1916 he was employed as a draftsman in the office of the City Architect of Toronto, then went overseas in 1916-19 and worked in engineering offices. After returning to Toronto in 1919, he joined Yolles & Rotenberg, an architectural and engineering firm, and remained with them until 1922 when he opened an office under his own name. After WWII, Hyslop had fully embraced the modernist style, best seen is his striking design for the retail headquarters of Jaeger House Ltd., Yonge Street (1948; demol.) where he designed the entire store including fixtures and fittings, dominated by an open two-storey portal with large glazed windows displaying products of this British fashion company. Hyslop retired after 1950 and later died in Toronto on 28 October 1979 (inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects; inf. Leslie J. Upton, Mississauga)
F.K. HYSLOP (works in Toronto)
TORONTO ISLAND, a two storey Temperance Hotel, Manitou Road near Iroquois Avenue, 1909-10; demol. (City of Toronto b.p. 18523, 7 Dec. 1909)
W.H. BRINFIELD & SONS, Adelaide Street, a five storey factory, 1914 (City of Toronto b.p. 9375, 2 March 1914)
unnamed street, apartment block for Frank Britton, 1922-23 (C.R., xxxvi, 3 May 1922, 58, t.c.; and xxxvii, 17 Jan. 1923, 46)
unnamed street, Bowling Alley and retail stores, for T.J. Ford, 1923 (C.R., xxxvii, 3 Oct. 1923, 53, t.c.)
WARREN ROAD, at Lonsdale Road, residence for Harry Rotenberg, 1922 (City of Toronto b.p. 54440, 15 Sept. 1922)
LYNWOOD APARTMENTS, Avenue Road at Lynnwood Avenue, for W.A. Price, 1924; demol. (City of Toronto b.p. 69509, 10 April 1924)
BARRETT APARTMENTS, Broadview Avenue at Pretoria Avenue, 1925 (City of Toronto b.p. 82749, 5 Aug. 1925)
(with N.A. Armstrong) BAY STREET, at Albert Street, south-west corner, an 18 storey office block, first proposed in 1925; and later proposed for the same site in 1928 and 1929, but not built (C.R., xxxix, 2 Sept. 1925, 49; Const., xix, April 1926, 114; C.R., xlii, 1 Feb. 1928, 47; and xliii, 30 Jan. 1929, 47)
WINDSOR ARMS APARTMENTS, St. Thomas Street, south of Bloor Street West, 1927-28; demolished Dec. 1996, and now replaced with a replica copy of the original building (Toronto Star, 30 June 1927, 8, illus. & descrip.; City of Toronto b.p. 95844, 7 Feb. 1927; C.R., xli, 1 June 1927, 51; and 13 July 1927, 714; Toronto Star, 14 March 1986; Globe & Mail [Toronto], 9 Feb. 1991, p. C13; and 1 Jan. 1997, p. A8, illus. & descrip.)
(with Reuben R. Dennis) KINGSTON ROAD, a 30 suite apartment house, 1927 (C.R., xli, 6 July 1927, 57)
ANTRIM APARTMENTS, Barton Avenue at Markham Street, for P. Harman, 1927-28; still standing in 2023 (C.R., xli, 23 Nov. 1927, 51)
GORDON TAMBLYN DRUG CO., Jarvis Street at Dundas Street East, a 4 storey office and warehouse block, 1928; demol. (City of Toronto b.p. B 807, 16 Aug. 1928)
NU-TEST OIL CO., Bathurst Street at College Street, auto gas station, 1930 (C.R., xliv, 22 Oct. 1930, 63; and 5 Nov. 1930, 62)
YORK MEDICAL CLINIC, Coxwell Avenue, north of Danforth Avenue, a three storey block of offices for William Halliday, 1930-31; still standing in 2023 (City of Toronto Archives, Drawings Coll., Fonds 200, Series 410, File 172; inf. Barbara Myrvold, Toronto)
BRIGHTON THEATRE, Roncesvalles Avenue at Galley Avenue, interior renovations and alterations to existing movie theatre, 1931; still standing in 2023 (Weekly Building Reporter [Toronto], vii, 28 Feb. 1931, 6)
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENTS CO., Richmond Street West near Bay Street, small office block, 1946; demol. (OA, Dept. of Labour, Blueprint collection Plan No. 10890, Series IV – 2 (d)
JAEGER HOUSE STORE, Yonge Street, south of Adelaide Street West, 1947-48; demol. c. 1990 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxv, Aug. 1948, 272-73, illus.)
F.K. HYSLOP (works elsewhere)
GOOSE BAY, LABRADOR, Airport Terminal, 1944 (inf. Mrs. L.J. Upton, Mississauga)
OTTAWA, ONT., Carlingview Shopping Centre, Carling Avenue at Woodroffe Avenue, a new Loblaws Supermarket Store within the complex, 1955 (Ottawa Citizen, 7 June 1955, 32)