MAKEPEACE, Charles Roderick (1860-1926), a widely-known industrial architect and engineer who designed dozens of textile mills in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America and in Australia. In Nova Scotia, he designed a substantial addition to the Stanfield's Ltd. garment factory. Logan Street near Queen Street, at TRURO, N.S. in 1922 (C.R., xxxvi, 7 June 1922, 54). This complex cost $125,000.00 to construct, and made the company one of largest clothing manufacturers in Canada. The factory complex is still standing and in use today as of 2022.
Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina on 20 May 1860, Makepeace moved to New England after 1885 and established his office in Providence, Rhode Island where he lived and worked as an architect and engineer from 1887 onward. He later died there on 10 February 1926 (obituary St. Louis Globe-Democrat [St. Louis, Missouri], 11 Feb. 1926, 18; obit. Sault Ste. Marie Daily Star, 15 Feb. 1926, 10).