Appleton, Teavil | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

APPLETON, Teavil (1788-1865) was active in Montreal where he worked as builder, carpenter and house-joiner from c. 1817 until after 1833. During his early career he often worked in collaboration with Joseph Clarke (see list of works under Clarke & Appleton). Together they assisted with the construction of the British Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, St. James Street, Montreal,1820-21, and in 1826 they jointly submitted a design in the competition for the new Gaol at Montreal (Montreal Herald, 25 Feb 1826, 2). By 1830 Appleton may have moved to Quebec City where, again with Joseph Clarke, he served as builder of the Custom House, Champlain Street, Quebec (1830-36) working to the design prepared by H.M. Blaiklock (L. Maitland, Neoclassical Architecture in Canada, 1984, 47, 110, illus.). In 1834 the partnership of Clarke & Appleton was dissolved (Montreal Gazette, 4 Feb. 1834, 3), and from 1842 onward the Montreal City Directories list Appleton as a builder. However, he is also noted as an architect for several ecclesiastical and institutional works after 1850, including St. James Anglican Church, Durham, Que., described as '...a perfect model of a Village Church, in the simplest form of the Early English'. He died at Montreal on 24 October 1865 (death notice in Montreal Herald, 26 Oct. 1865, 2; inf. Robert Lemire, Montreal).

MONTREAL, QUE., St. Luke's Anglican Episcopal Church, Champlain Street at Dorchester Boulevard East, 1853 (Montreal Transcript, 14 Sept. 1853, 2; Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 316-19, illus.)
DURHAM, QUE., St. James Anglican Church, 1853 (Gazette [Montreal], 4 Nov. 1853, 2, descrip.; The Church [Toronto], 17 Nov. 1853, 61, descrip.)
COWANSVILLE, QUE., Christ Church (Anglican), 1854-55 (Missisquoi County Historical Society Report, 1961, 37; H. Bergevin, Eglises Protestantes, 1981, 132, illus.)
MONTREAL, QUE., Montreal High School, University Street at Cathcart Street, for the Royal Institute for the Advancement of Learning, 1856-58 (ANQM, building contract, J.S. Hunter, 3 May 1856)
MONTREAL, QUE., Little St. Joseph Street, block of stores for William Darling, 1864 (ANQM, building contract, T. Doucet, 3 June 1864)