SHORE, Leonard Eldon (1902-1989), partner in the successful Toronto office of Shore & Moffat from 1948 until after 1980. Shore was born in Clarksburg, Ont. on 13 July 1902 and studied architecture at Columbia Univ. in New York City, and later graduated from the School of Architecture at the Univ. of Toronto in 1928. His thesis year project, entitled “A Bank and Office Building” demonstrated his talent as a designer and delineator, and his design for this 40 storey skyscraper was published in the RAIC Journal, v, June 1928, 230, illus. He trained in the office of Mathers & Haldenby, and in 1929 he became associated with W.L. Somerville, and remained in that office until he enlisted with the Canadian Army in 1939.
After WWII, he formed a partnership with Robert R. Moffat (RAIC Journal, xxiii, Feb. 1946, 46) and they produced a series of institutional, educational and commercial projects, including two which received Massey Medals for Architecture from the Governor General. During this postwar period, Shore was elected President of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1948, and was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Inst. of Canada in 1951. He was appointed Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1960, and became a full member of the Academy in 1968. He donated several original architectural drawings to the Academy during the period of 1960 to 1970, and these drawings are now held in the R.C.A. collection housed at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Shore died in North York, Ont. on 17 November 1989 (death notice Globe & Mail [Toronto], 18 Nov. 1989, A 15; biog. & port. Univ. of Toronto Monthly, xlvii, March 1947, 155; biog. RAIC Journal, xxviii, March 1951, 80). The office of Shore & Moffat was later renamed in 1972 as Shore, Tilbe, Henschel & Irwin Architects, with new partners Alfred P. Tilbe, Arthur W. Henschel, and Stephen V.E. Irwin, all of Toronto.
LEONARD E. SHORE (works in Ontario)
CALLENDAR, ONT., Red Cross Hospital, 1936 (The Nugget [North Bay], 27 May 1936, 16)
SHORE & MOFFATT (works in Toronto unless noted)
TORONTO TOWNSHIP, public school for S.S. No. 23, 1948-49 (C.R., lxi, Oct. 1948, 184; and lxii, Jan. 1949, 190, t.c.)
INGERSOLL, ONT., High School, 1948-49 (C.R., lxi, Nov. 1948, 138; and lxii, Dec. 1949, 87)
MEAFORD, ONT., public school, 1948-50 (Owen Sound Daily Sun-Times, 30 Jan. 1948, 9; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxvii, May 1950, 170, illus.)
SASKATOON, SASK., Memorial Student Union Building, Univ. of Saskatchewan, 1949-50 (C.R., lxii, Aug. 1949, 222)
YORK TOWNSHIP, in West Toronto, York Municipal Buildings, Eglinton Avenue West near Keele Street, 1949-50 (C.R., lxii, Nov. 1949, 125; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxx, Jan. 1953, 22-23, illus.)
EATONVILLE, ETOBICOKE TWP., school for S.S. No. 2, 1949 (C.R., lxii, June 1949, 114)
KENORA, ONT., public school, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, Feb. 1950, 124)
MARKDALE, ONT., major addition to the Grey County Home, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, May 1950, 142)
EAST YORK MUNICIPAL BUILDING, Mortimer Avenue, west of Coxwell Avenue, 1950 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxvii, June 1950, 197, illus.)
PICKERING, ONT., High School, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, July 1950, 121)
MARKDALE, ONT., High School, 1950-51 (C.R., lxiii, Sept. 1950, 128)
GODERICH, ONT., High School, 1950-51 (C.R., lxiii, Dec. 1950, 106)
MEAFORD, ONT., general hospital, 1950-51 (Owen Sound Daily Sun-Times, 28 Jan. 1950, 7; C.R., lxiii, Dec. 1950, 108)
ETOBICOKE, Ontario Food Terminal, Queen Elizabeth Way at the Humber River, 1952 (Toronto Star, 22 Aug. 1952, 13, illus.; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxix, June 1952, 167, illus.)