WILEY, Thomas Husted (1873-1944) was born in St. Catharines, Ont. on 1 April 1873 and worked as a student in the office of William B. Allan. He had no formal college or university training in architecture, but gained much of his knowledge about building construction by working as a carpenter and construction foreman for the George Wilson Construction Co. for fifteen years. He commenced practise under his own name in 1906 and many of his commissions were for residential and institutional works in the St. Catharines and Niagara Peninsula region. After his death in 1944 his son Thomas R. Wiley continued the practise (obituary and portrait in the St. Catharines Standard, 24 Jan. 1944, 1; biog. St. Catharines Standard, 4 Oct. 1913, 4)
Thomas H. WILEY (Residential works in St. Catharines unless noted)
CHURCH STREET, near Clark Street, a pair of houses for Newman Brothers, 1906 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 17 Sept. 1906, 6, detailed descrip.)
unnamed street, residence for D.H. Scott-Smith, 1908 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 23 May 1908, 4, t.c.)
MARTINDALE FARM, a new barn, fruit house, and drive shed, 1908 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 22 Sept. 1908, 3, t.c.)
YATES STREET, residence for Louis Bissonette, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 4 Aug. 1909, 21, t.c.)
ST. DAVID'S, ONT., additions and alterations to residence of W.H. Collinson, called "Meadow Brook Farm", 1910 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 30 March 1910, 5)
QUEENSTON STREET, residence for John McKnight, 1910 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 26 April 1910, 4)
CHURCH STREET, residence for Dr. William J. Chapman, 1910; demol. c. 1973 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 27 Aug. 1910, 3, t.c.; C.R., xxiv, 7 Sept. 1910, 27, t.c.; E. Julian et al, St. Catharines: Our Built Heritage, 2005, 45)
GRANTHAM TOWNSHIP, residence for John Currie, 1911 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 24 March 1911, 2, t.c.)
COLLEGE STREET, residence for Arthur Robinson, 1911 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 30 March 1911, 4)
YATES STREET, residence for H. Newell Bate, 1914 (Canadian Builder & Carpenter [Toronto], iv, Aug. 1914, 25-29, illus. & descrip.)
HILLCREST AVENUE, residence for H.H. Collier, c. 1920 (dwgs. at St. Catharines Museum)
HILLCREST AVENUE, residence for Frank A. Coy, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 25 Sept. 1929, 149)
THAIRS AVENUE, residence for Donald MacDonald, 1930 (inf. from St. Catharines Museum)
DUKE STREET, residence for H. Clifford Wallace, 1933 (inf. from St. Catharines Museum)
YATES STREET, residence for Peter Grammar, 1937 (inf. from St. Catharines Museum)
Thomas H. WILEY (Commercial & Industrial works in St. Catharines unless noted)
GRIFFIN'S THEATRE, St. Paul Street, 1908 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 1 Dec. 1908, 1, descrip.)
TIM & MAC BILLIARD HALL, St. Paul Street, major addition, 1908 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 11 Dec. 1908, 7, descrip.)
MERRITTON, ONT., conversion of the old cotton mill into a factory for the McSloy Bros., for the production of haircloth, 1910 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 9 June 1910, 3; and 15 June 1910, 3, t.c.; and 27 July 1910, 3, descrip.)
CANADIAN CANNERS LTD., new factory buildings, 1911 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 17 March 1911, 3, t.c.)
QUEEN STREET, near St. Paul Street, commercial block for John S. Campbell, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 14 Feb. 1912, 68, 70)
DENOVA BLOCK, St. Paul Street at Court Street, a 2 storey commercial block for Mr. Denova, 1912 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 15 May 1912, 4, descrip.)
T.H. McLAREN DEPARTMENT STORE, extensive interior alterations, 1912 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 21 Dec. 1912, 4, descrip.)
NEW GRIFFIN THEATRE, Head Street near Carlisle Street, 1913; still standing in 2023 (St. Catharines Standard, 26 July 1913, 2, t.c.)
KING GEORGE THEATRE, James Street, 1915 (E. Julian et al, St. Catharines: Our Built Heritage, 2005, 78, illus.)
SULLIVAN BLOCK, Queen Street at Lake Street, 1930 (E. Julian et al, St. Catharines: Our Built Heritage, 2005, 73, illus.)
ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO., George Street at Russell Avenue, factory, 1941 (C.R., liv, 15 Jan. 1941, 31)
Thomas H. WILEY (Institutional & Ecclesiastical works in St. Catharines unless noted)
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, large addition for a new gymnasium, 1910; but not completed until 1912 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 24 June 1910, 5, descrip.; and 8 Aug. 1912, 8, descrip.)
GRANTHAM TOWNSHIP, a new public school for Union Section No. 2, designed 1910; built 1911-12 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 8 Aug. 1910, 4, t.c.; and 17 Oct. 1911, 8, descrip.)
THOROLD, ONT., major additions of new Vestry, and new organ loft to St. John's Anglican Church, Carleton Street South at Clairmont Street, 1910; still standing in 2023 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 10 Sept. 1910, 3, t.c.; and 26 Sept. 1910, 3, descrip.)
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, additions to the Rittenhouse Public School, Union Section No. 1, 1911 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 25 Jan. 1911, 4)
(with Stewart & Witton of Hamilton) VICTORIA PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL, Niagara Street at Gibson Place, 1911-12; with a major addition, 1928; all still standing in 2022 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 24 Jan. 1912, 4; E. Julian et al, St. Catharines: Our Built Heritage, 2005, 126-7, illus.; inf. St. Catharines Museum)
CENTRAL FIRE HALL, St. Paul Street at Chestnut Street, extensive remodelling, with new 55 ft. high tower, and 2nd storey addition facing Chestnut Street, 1912 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 23 Aug. 1912, 2, descrip.; and 24 Aug. 1912, 11, t.c.)
ST. GEORGE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Church Street near Lyman Street, extensive interior alterations and improvements, with a new Parish Hall & Sunday School at the rear of the church, 1912-13 (Daily Standard [St. Catharines], 7 Dec. 1912, 1, detailed descrip.)
(with Stewart & Witton) ST. GEORGE'S WARD PUBLIC SCHOOL, a new school based on earlier plans for Alexandra Public School and Victoria Public School, as designed by Stewart & Witton of Hamilton, 1913 (St. Catharines Standard, 23 April 1913, 2)
ALEXANDRA PUBLIC SCHOOL, large addition of 4 classrooms, 1913-14 (St. Catharines Standard, 12 Dec. 1913, 14, t.c.)
CONNAUGHT PUBLIC SCHOOL, Prince Street, 1915 (E. Julian et al, St. Catharines: Our Built Heritage, 2005, 129, illus.)
MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH, Maple Street at Niagara Street, 1917-18; burned 1942; rebuilt 1943 as Memorial United Church (Memorial United Church 1875-1935: Diamond Jubilee, 14; St. Catharines Standard, 3 Jan. 1944, illus.)
PRINCE OF WALES FACER PUBLIC SCHOOL, Facer Street at Charles Avenue, 1921 (inf. from St. Catharines Museum)
(with W.P. Witton) LINCOLN & WELLAND COUNTIES SANATORIUM, Merrittville Road, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 17 July 1929, 59)
ST. PAUL STREET UNITED CHURCH, Sunday School and alterations to church, 1932 (C.R., xlvi, 25 May 1932, 132)