SPROULE, Stanley Macquana (1889-1965) was born and educated in Montreal where he graduated from the Dept. of Architecture at McGill University in 1912. He articled with Brown & Vallance in 1912-14, then returned to work as a draftsman with that firm from 1919 to 1925. He left Canada and moved to New York City in late 1925 and worked for several firms including Andrew J. Thomas (in 1925-27), for L.A. Goldstone (in 1927-30) and for Charles A. Platt (in 1930-31), who was the master of the Georgian Revival style and designer of palatial houses in New England and the American mid-west. Sproule tried his hand at practicing in New York under his own name from 1933, but returned to Montreal in 1935 and later opened his own office there. He was among twenty-three entrants who submitted designs in the competition for the headquarters of the Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects in 1939, and he received Second Prize for his scheme (R.A.I.C. Journal, xvi, Dec. 1939, 263). In 1949 he presented a scheme for an extensive flour mill complex on the Montreal waterfront, and this group of buildings still stands as of 2022 (Architecture Batiment Construction, iv, Jan. 1949, 24-5, illus.). Sproule died in Montreal on 18 July 1965 (death notice Gazette [Montreal], 19 July 1965, 43; inf. Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects)
MONTREAL, QUE., flour mill complex on Mill Street, near the intersection of the Bonaventure Expressway, 1949-50; still standing in 2022 (Architecture Batiment Construction, iv, Jan. 1949, 24-5, illus.; inf. Mr. Claude Armand Piche, Montreal)