GREENSTREET, Ernest John (1860-1926), a leading expert in the architecture of cold storage building on five continents. His works can be found in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada, the United States and elsewhere. Born in Christchurch, N.Z. in 1860, he trained there and joined in a partnership of Coxon & Greenstreet, Architects after 1885 and specialized in the design of buildings for the refrigeration and freezing of produce and meats. He left New Zealand after 1890 and moved to Sydney, Australia, and during next 25 years he lived and worked in South Africa (in 1899-1900), and later in Canada from 1909 to 1913, establishing an office, first in Edmonton, Alta. (1908-09), and in Toronto, Ont. from September 1909 to 1913. He returned to New Zealand in 1915 and continued to practise there until his death on 6 November 1926 (obituary and biography in The Star [Christchurch], 6 Nov. 1926, 9).
(works in Canada)
GRIMSBY, ONT., a large cold storage warehouse, 1913 [St. Catherines, Ont.], 10 Sept. 1913, 3, t.c.)
(works in South Africa)
CAPE TOWN, S.A., cold storage building for S.A. Fisheries & Cold Storage Co. Ltd., 1901 (inf. Joanna Walker, Pretoria)
PIETERMARIZBURG, S.A., Natal Creamery House, a cold storage production building, 1902 (inf. Joanna Walker, Pretoria)
DURBAN, S.A., TVL Cold Storage Co., 1902 (inf. Joanna Walker, Pretoria)