WINEGAR, Wilber Ray (1898-1964), active in Toronto, Ont. as a staff architect, designer and delineator with the firm of Marani, Lawson & Morris from 1930 to 1940, and as partner-in-charge of design for the firm of Marani & Morris from 1945 to 1960. Born in Pittsfield, Illinois on 3 June 1898, he graduated from Albion College in Albion, Michigan and later studied architecture at the University of Michigan. He worked as a draftsman with Robert O. Derrick, a prominent architect in Detroit, from 1922 to 1927. He then joined Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, the oldest and largest architectural firm in Michigan, as a designer from 1927 to 1930. During this period, he distinguished himself by winning the National Le Brun Travelling Scholarship, and receiving Second Premium in the international competition for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon, England in 1927. He later won 3rd Prize in the National Competition for the Lindbergh Memorial in the USA. Winegar was a member of the Michigan Society of Architects, and a member of the American Inst. of Architects in Washington.
Winegar emigrated to Canada in 1930, joining the firm of Marani, Lawson & Morris and remaining with them until 1940 when he returned to Detroit and joined Albert Kahn, a renowned architect of industrial buildings, and he remained there until 1945 when he moved back to Toronto to again join F. H. Marani and his firm, now called Marani & Morris. During the next 15 years, he served as partner-in-charge of design of the Peterborough City Hall, the CNE Grandstand, the Bell Telephone Office & Exchange, Brantford, the Great West Life Assurance office block in Winnipeg, the Gore Mutual Life Assurance Co. Office in Galt, the International Order of Foresters Building, Toronto, the Proctor & Gamble Building, Toronto, and the Bank of Montreal Office block in Toronto. Winegar was elected as a Fellow of the R.A.I.C. in 1958, and later died in Toronto on 10 September 1964 (death notice Globe & Mail [Toronto], 11 Sept. 1964, 27; inf. Ontario Association of Architects).