TETLEY, Charles Reginald (1886-1960) was born in England on 16 April 1886, son of Charles W. Tetley and Blanche Younghusband. He was educated at Haileybury College and served his articles with Harry Quick of Coventry in 1903-07 while taking part-time studies in architectural design at the Coventry School of Art. Tetley emigrated to Canada in 1907 and obtained a position in the Montreal office of George T. Hyde (in 1907-09) and later worked for Ross & MacFarlane (in 1909-12) where he gained first hand knowledge of new methods of multi-storey reinforced concrete construction. In 1913 he opened his own office in Montreal and maintained a successful practice for more than forty years. He had a special interest in industrial architecture but was equally adept in his handling of the Collegiate Gothic style which he employed with skill in the design of the Argyle School, Westmount (1934). He also executed a significant Chateau-style railway station at Lacolle, Que., built 1930 and still standing. He was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Inst. of British Architects in 1926, and held influential positions on the Westmount Architectural Commission and on the Advisory Board of Architects for the City of Outremont. Tetley retired from practise in 1957 and died in Montreal on 21 July 1960 (obit. & port. Gazette [Montreal], 23 July 1960, 15; biog. & port. in the National Reference Book, ii, 1927-28, 440; biog. W. Wood, The Storied Province of Quebec, 1932, 282; R.I.B.A., Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, ii, 778). A photographic portrait of C.R. Tetley was published in La Presse [Montreal], 23 Dec. 1926, p. 18)
C.R. TETLEY (works in Montreal)
RUBEROID CO. LTD., Chenneville Street, factory, 1913 (R.I.B.A., list of works)
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH (possibly St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Dorchester Street West), a Parish Hall for the church, 1913 (R.I.B.A., list of works)
LACHINE FIRE HALL & POLICE STATION, St. Joseph Boulevard, 1915-16 (Montreal Daily Star, 24 Aug. 1915, 13, t.c.; R.I.B.A., list of works; Montreal, Les Edifices Publics, 1981, 202-3, illus.)
LACHINE, St. Stephen's Anglican Church, 12th Avenue, new Parish Hall, 1917 (Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 384-89, illus.)
WILDER'S LTD. BUILDING, Bleury Street, a 9 storey tower, 1918-19 (C.R., xxxii, 13 Nov. 1918, 901-02, illus. & descrip.; Montreal Daily Star, 1 Feb. 1919, 31, illus. & detailed architectural descrip.)
OUTREMONT, residence for Burton W. St. John, Roskilde Avenue, 1919 (C.H.G., v, Jan. 1928, 25, illus.; Montreal, Les Residences, 1987, 684-5, illus.)
PAQUETTE BLOCK, Ste. Catherine Street East at St. Dominique Street, 1919 (Montreal, Les Magasins Les Cinemas, 1985, 216-17, illus.)
OUTREMONT, residence for H.B. Wilder, Hartland Avenue, 1921 (Outremont b.p. 1378, 15 June 1921)
BRAMSON AUTO GARAGE, Ontario Street at Jeanne Mance Street, a 6 storey concrete garage, 1921 (Montreal Daily Star, 28 Sept. 1921, 15, descrip.)
OUTREMONT, residence for George Belanger, Pagnuelo Avenue, 1921 (Outremont b.p. 1399, 23 Aug. 1921; C.H.G., vi, Jan. 1929, 38, illus.)
LACHINE HIGH SCHOOL, 36th Avenue, 1922-23 (C.R., xxxvi, 15 Nov. 1922, 47; Montreal Daily Star, 14 Sept. 1923, 29)
OUTREMONT, residence for J.A. Yates, Holyrood Avenue, 1923 (Outremont b.p. 1663, 13 July 1923)
LACHINE, Strathmore Protestant School, 1924-25 (Gazette [Montreal], 9 Jan. 1925, 4)
WESTMOUNT, Richelieu Apartments, Sherbrooke Street West at Claremont Avenue, 1925 (R.A.I.C. Journal, iii, Sept./Oct. 1926, xviii, illus. in advert.; Montreal, Les Appartements, 1991, 80-3, illus.)
LACHINE, Central Park Protestant School, Tenth Avenue above St. Catherine Street, a 3 storey school, 1926-27 (Montreal Daily Star, 15 April 1926, 30; descrip.)
WESTMOUNT, a pair of semi-detached stone houses at 4467 Montrose Avenue, near Forden Street, 1926-27; still standing in 2023 (Montreal Daily Star, 13 Jan. 1927, 20, Notice of Sale by C.R. Tetley)
THE GLADSTONE APARTMENTS, Burnside Place near Mansfield Street, 1927 (Montreal Daily Star, 15 Oct. 1927, 26, descrip. in advert.)
THE LEALAND APARTMENTS, Mansfield Street near Burnside Place, 1927 (Montreal Daily Star, 15 Oct. 1927, 26, descrip. in advert.)
WALKER PAPER CO., Murray Street at Wellington Street, warehouse, 1928-29; freight terminal, 1939 (C.R., xlii, 28 Nov. 1928, 59; lii, 3 May 1939, 41)
LACHINE, Women's Missionary Society, 13th Avenue at St. Antoine Street, a Children's Home for the United Church of Canada, 1930 (Montreal Daily Star, 27 May 1930, 3; and 22 Nov. 1930, 33, illus. & descrip.)
WESTMOUNT, new Parish Hall and Sunday School for St. Matthias Anglican Church, Cote St. Antoine Road at Churchill Avenue, 1933-34 (Gazette [Montreal], 4 April 1933, 5, descrip.; Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 330-5, illus.)
WESTMOUNT, Argyle Public School, Cote St. Antoine Road at Argyle Avenue, 1934 (C.R., xlviii, 13 June 1934, 33; Gazette [Montreal], 15 Aug. 1934, 4; Building in Canada, xx, Spring 1940, 11, illus.; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 6-9, illus.)
QUEEN MARY ROAD, residence for W.B. Converse, 1936 (C.H.G., xiv, Jan./Feb. 1937, 35, illus.; Montreal, Les Residences, 1987, 146, illus.)
I.B.M. CORPORATION, Beaver Hall Hill, new 4 storey showroom and office building, 1940-41 (Montreal Daily Star, 6 Feb. 1940, 22; and 17 Jan. 1941, 29, descrip.; and 22 Feb. 1941, 25, descrip.; C.R., liv, 29 Jan. 1941, 35; Gazette [Montreal], 22 Feb. 1941, 23, illus. & descrip.)
MONTREAL SAILORS INSTITUTE, Place Royale, a new 4 storey block, 1945 (Montreal Daily Star, 20 March 1945, 3, illus. with perspective drawing signed by C.R. Tetley)
JULIUS RICHARDSON CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL, Kent Avenue, 1949-50 (C.R., lxii, Nov. 1949, 122)
C.R. TETLEY (works elsewhere)
NEW GLASGOW, N.S., The Maritime Building, a commercial block, 1915 (R.I.B.A., list of works)
MONTREAL WEST, QUE., residence for Walter C. Richardson, 1921 (C.R., xxxv, 22 June 1921, 46)
CORNWALL, ONT., Courtaulds Rayon Ltd., a large factory and adjacent buildings "....on the French Farm property" overlooking the St. Lawrence River, 1923-24 (Montreal Daily Star, 1 Nov. 1923, 17, descrip.; C.R., xxxvii, 12 Dec. 1923, 51)
DIXIE, QUE., new 3 storey Clubhouse for the Summerlea Golf Club, 1923; burned September 1949 (Montreal Daily Star, 6 Oct. 1923, 16, illus. & detailed descrip.; R.I.B.A., list of works)
ST. LAMBERT, QUE., a Public School, likely Victoria Park Public School, Queen Boulevard at Union Boulevard, 1924; still standing in 2023 (Montreal Daily Star, 15 March 1924, 11;
R.I.B.A., list of works in Application Form from C.R. Tetley; inf. Yves Guillet, St. Lambert)
ST. LAMBERT, QUE., a Public School, likely Southwark Public School, Green Street at Sanford Avenue, 1924; still standing in 2023 (Montreal Daily Star, 15 March 1924, 11; R.I.B.A., list of works in Application Form from C.R. Tetley; inf. Yves Guillet, St. Lambert)
ST. LAMBERT, QUE., St. Lambert United Church, Mercille Avenue at Desaulniers Boulevard, 1928; still standing in 2023 (C.R., xlii, 17 Oct. 1928, 28; inf. Yves Guillet, St. Lambert)
(with Ross & MacDonald) HOTEL DE LA SALLE, Drummond Street, extension, 1929 (Canadian Hotel Review, vii, May 1929, 45-6, descrip.)
LACOLLE, QUE., a new Railway Station & Canada Customs Border Office, for the Napierville Junction Railway Co., 1930, to replace the old station burned in 1929 (inf. Yves Guillet, St. Lambert, Que.)
MOUNT BRUNO, QUE., residence for Mrs. R. Rolf Struthers, 1935 (E. McMann, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970, 372-3)
HAMPSTEAD, QUE., residence for Gordon B. Strathy, Thurlow Road, c. 1942 (C.H.G., xix, Aug. 1942, 13)
TORONTO, ONT., Ogilvie Flour Mills Co., office and warehouse, Lakeshore Boulevard East at Small Street, 1945-46 (C.R., lviii, Feb. 1945, 166)
COMPETITIONS
TOWN OF MOUNT ROYAL, Model City Housing Co., 1920 (Gazette [Montreal], 6 Feb. 1920, 6). A total of 67 designs were sent in for this post-war housing competition, and C.R. Tetley received a First Prize of $150. for his plan for a detached 8-room house.