WHITE, William P. (1862 -1932) was active in Seattle, Wash. from 1902 to about 1918, and he designed several landmarks there including the Jefferson Apartments (1905), the Kinnear Apartments (1907-08) and the Astor Hotel (1909). In Vancouver, B.C. he capitalized on the same formula of efficient multi-storey apartment blocks and designed nearly a dozen variants in the downtown area, including his best known project, The Sylvia Apartments (later called the Sylvia Hotel), Vancouver, B.C., 1911-12. No information can be found on his activity in Canada after 1914. He remained active in Seattle until 1918, then moved to Bremerton, Wash. where he was employed as a draftsman in the Navy Shipyards. He died there on 5 April 1932 (biog. in J.K. Ochsner, Shaping Seattle Architecture, 2014, 484; D. Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 486, 523).
(works in Vancouver)
ENGLESEA LODGE, Beach Avenue, 1911 (Vancouver & Victoria Architecturally, 1911, illus.)
ROWLING BUILDING, East Hastings Street near Dunlevy Street, 1911-12 (Province [Vancouver], 2 Sept. 1911, 29, illus. & descrip.; 9 March 1912, 38, descrip.)
BONAVENTURE APARTMENTS, Comox Street, 1911 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
BUCHANAN BUILDING, Robson Street, 1911; demol. (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
ALLAN BUILDING, Commercial Drive, 1911 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
LEONARD APARTMENTS, East 11th Avenue, 1912 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
WEST 2nd AVENUE, at Yew Street, apartment block for D.S. MacDonald, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 13 March 1912, 69, t.c.)
BEACH AVENUE, near Stanley Park, apartment block for A.A. Davidson, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 30 March 1912, 48, illus. & descrip.)
SYLVIA COURT APARTMENTS, Gilford Street, 1912-13 (C.R., xxvi, 1 May 1912, 59, illus. & descrip.; H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1993, 120, illus.)
ROYSLN COURT, West 4th Avenue at Vine Street, a brick block of stores and apartments for John P. Boyle, Druggist, 1912; still standing in 2020 (The Sun [Vancouver], 22 July 1912, 8, descrip.; City of Vancouver b.p. 2922, 22 July 1912; inf. Donald Luxton, Vancouver)
DUFFERIN STREET EAST, at Quebec Street, a 3 storey warehouse for Evan Denton, 1912 (The Sun [Vancouver], 29 July 1912, 16, descrip.)
(works in Washington State)
FRIDAY HARBOUR, WASH., The San Juan County Court House, Court Street at 2nd Street North, 1906; still standing in 2020 (San Juan Islander [Friday Harbour], 7 April 1906, 4, t.c.)
FRIDAY HARBOUR, WASH., San Juan County Bank, Spring Street, for J.A. Gould, 1907; still standing in 2020 (San Juan Islander [Friday Harbour], 31 Aug. 1907, 5)