WILLMOT, Charles MacKay (1886-1959), the son of Mancel Willmot, was born in Toronto on 18 January 1886 and was educated at the Toronto Technical School. He was trained under his father from 1904 to 1908 and worked as a part-time draftsman for John Gemmell before commencing his own practise in 1909 in partnership with Norman Alpaugh. Upon the departure of Alpaugh for Los Angeles in 1912 Willmot established his own office specializing in the design of residences in the Lawrence Park and Forest Hill neighbourhoods of Toronto. In 1926 he moved to Los Angeles to assist his former partner with the commission for the Town House Apartments, a Beaux-Arts landmark on Wilshire Boulevard (now the Sheraton-Town House Hotel) and an early precedent for our present day condominium form of residential ownership. Willmot returned to Toronto in 1930 to resume his practise and in 1941 joined the architectural staff of the Ontario Hydro Commission. He retired from practise in 1956 and died in Toronto on 2 November 1959 (death notice in the Globe & Mail [Toronto] 3 Nov. 1959, 38). A small collection of architectural drawings and manuscript material by Willmot is held at the Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto (Acc. MC 185).
WILLMOT & ALPAUGH
(works in Toronto unless noted)
GRENADIER ROAD, near Indian Road, pair of houses for unnamed client, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 7 July 1909, 34, illus. & descrip.)
HURON STREET, near Lowther Avenue, residence for S.J. Graydon, 1909 (Toronto b.p. 18200, 16 Nov. 1909)
FOREST HILL ROAD, near Lonsdale Road, residence for W.A. Leroy, 1910 (Toronto b.p. 19556, 2 April 1910)
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., Townhouse Apartment Block, Wilshire Boulevard at Commonwealth Avenue, 1928 (dwgs. at Fisher Library, Univ. of Toronto)
C.M. WILLMOT
FARNHAM AVENUE, pair of houses for A.E. Armstrong, 1912 (Toronto b.p. 33133, 10 April 1912)
McCAUL STREET, at Renfrew Place, office and show rooms for Harold F. Ritchie, 1912 (Toronto b.p. 37653, 21 Sept. 1912)
STIBBARD AVENUE, residence for the architect, 1916 (Const., ix, Oct. 1916, 362)
DANFORTH AVENUE, at Pape Avenue, stores and apartments for Downes Dunlop Co., 1919 (Toronto b.p. 25404, 20 Aug. 1919)
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONT., War Memorial Clock Tower, Queen Street, 1921-22 (Niagara Advance [Niagara-on-the-Lake], 24 June 1922, Supplement, 1, illus.)
HEATHDALE ROAD, residence for Craig McKay, 1922 (Const., xv, Oct. 1922, 326; C.H.G., iv, Jan. 1927, 38, illus.)
STRATHEARN BOULEVARD, residence for Charles M. Henning, 1922 (dwgs. at Fisher Library, Univ. of Toronto)
(with Page & Warrington) ST. CLEMENT'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Briar Hill Avenue at Duplex Avenue, 1922-24 (Const., xix, Feb. 1926, 53-9, illus. & descrip.)
SUMMERHILL AVENUE, residence for William Britnell, 1923 (dwgs. at Fisher Library, Univ. of Toronto)
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONT., mansion for J.M. Mussen, c. 1924 (Saturday Night [Toronto], 19 Sept. 1925, 28, illus. & descrip.)
DUPLEX AVENUE, near Glenview Avenue, residence for A. Gordon Tyrrell, 1924 (dwgs. at Fisher Library, Univ. of Toronto)
ST. LEONARD'S AVENUE, residence for Percy A. Maxwell, c. 1924 (dwgs. at Fisher Library, Univ. of Toronto)
RUSSELL HILL ROAD, residence for Harry Jennings, 1924-25 (dwgs. at Fisher Library, Univ. of Toronto)
FOREST HILL ROAD, near Ormsby Crescent, residence for Dr. Charles H. Hair, 1935 (C.R., xlix, 29 May 1935, 33)
NORTH YORK, 'Glenmore', a residence for Barry Hayes, Riverview Drive, 1935 (C.H.G., xii, Oct.-Nov. 1935, 24-5, illus.)