SCOTT, Walter (1880-1941) of Hamilton, Ontario was active there under his own name from 1913, and he later formed a partnership with Lindsay A. Wardell from 1918 to 1921, as Scott & Wardell, Architects. Born in Hamilton in 1880, he attended Hamilton Collegiate, and from 1893 to 1897 he studied at the Hamilton Art School. He served his articles in the office of W.A. Edwards in Hamilton from 1896 to 1900, then moved to New York City where he gain considerable experience as a draftsman, at first in the office of Lord & Hewlett, Architects (in 1900-02), and then as assistant to John Russell Pope, one of the most important Beaux-Arts architects in America after 1900. Scott remained with Pope for eight years, from 1902 to 1910, and spent much of his spare time studying at the Atelier Donn Barber, another leading Beaux-Arts architect in New York. Scott then joined the office of William L. Stoddart (1869-1940), a prominent architect in New York, and remained with him from 1910 to 1912.
Armed with these impeccable credentials from leading American architects, Scott returned to Hamilton in 1913, and joined the Ontario Assoc. of Architects in 1914. After the dissolution of the firm of Scott & Wardell in 1924, Scott continued to work under his own name until after 1930. He died in Hamilton on 20 January 1941 (obituary The Spectator [Hamilton], 20 Jan. 1941, 24; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects, Toronto; inf. typescript notes of Arthur Wallace, architect, prepared for his paper called “Sketches of Some Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Hamilton Architects and Their Building”, prepared c. 1965)
SCOTT & WARDELL
HAMILTON, ONT., Polish Catholic Church, 1918 (C.R., xxxii, 10 April 1918, 39)
BRANTFORD, ONT., Landsdowne Park Housing Estate, a large tract of private houses for the Dominion Steel Co., on Lincoln Avenue, Devonshire Avenue and adjacent streets, 1919-20 (Const., xii, April 1919, 121, 123-24, illus. & descrip.; Const., xiv, Nov. 1921, 336-41, illus. & descrip.)
HAMILTON, ONT., major addition to a Roman Catholic Separate School, 1921 (C.R., xxxv, 18 May 1921, 140, t.c.)
HAMILTON, ONT., large theatre with retail stores, for an unnamed client, 1921 (C.R., xxxv, 22 June 1921, 46)
HAMILTON, ONT., conversion of an existing Catholic Church into a Roman Catholic Separate School, 1921-22 (C.R., xxxv, 16 Nov. 1921, 48)
WALTER SCOTT
ALDERSHOT, ONT., residence for George Unsworth, Unsworth Avenue near Plains Road West, 1932 (City of Burlington, Heritage Report, 2014)