MATTHEWS, Stanley (1892-1942), architect of Cincinnati, Ohio who designed two important buildings on St. Joseph Island, Ontario, southeast of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.. Born in Glendale, Ohio on 30 April 1892, he was educated at Princeton University where he graduated in 1913, then he moved to New York to study architecture at Columbia University. He opened his own office in Cincinnati in 1920 and was credited with the design of several commercial and institutional buildings there. His mother was Mrs. Mortimer Matthews of Cincinnati who spent her summers on St.. Joseph Island, and who generously provided funds to build the first public hospital building on the Island in 1929-30. She commissioned her son to prepare the plans for this landmark which opened in March 1930, and is still in use today. Matthews retired from the profession in 1932 due to his health, and later died at Monteagle, Tennessee on 5 November 1942 (obituary Cincinnati Post, 6 Nov. 1942, 28; obit. Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Nov. 1942, 14; biog. H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 399).
ST. JOSEPH ISLAND, ONT., 'Rock Crest', a large summer residence for H.S. Livingston of Cincinnati, at Hilton Beach, 1928 (Sault Daily Star, 15 May 1928, 2)
ST. JOSEPH ISLAND, ONT., Matthews Memorial Hospital, Richards Street, at Richards Landing, for Mrs. Mortimer Matthews, 1929-30 (Sault Daily Star, 6 Aug. 1929, 2; and 21 Nov. 1929, 14, descrip.; and 11 March 1930, 7, descrip.; Owen Sound Daily Sun Times, 11 Feb. 1930, 5, descrip.)