THOMPSON, Clarence P. [Clare P.] ( -1987) of Toronto received a prize in the Ideal Ontario Home competition staged in 1930 for his elaborate reinterpretation of a French manoir, prepared in collaboration with J.B. Sutton (R.A.I.C. Journal, vii, April 1930, 149, illus.; C.H.G., vii, Sept. 1930, 35, illus.). In 1938 he designed a pair of low-rise apartment blocks in the moderne style on Bayview Avenue for the Mayor of Leaside H. Howard Talbot. That same year he prepared the plans for the Pine Point Golf Club House in North Etobicoke, built 1938, and still standing as of 2016. Many of his designs for private residences were influenced by the fashionable Tudor Revival style that was popular in the 1930's. Thompson graduated from the Dept. of Architecture at the Univ. of Toronto in 1928 (Univ. of Toronto, Torontonensis, 1928, port.), He later died in Toronto on 12 April 1987 (death notice Globe & Mail [Toronto], 16 April 1987)
THOMPSON & SUTTON
SCHOMBERG, ONT., Public School & Continuation School, 1927 (The Globe [Toronto], 4 Nov. 1927, 22)
CLARE P. THOMPSON
TORONTO, ONT., a pair of apartment buildings in Leaside for Mayor H. Howard Talbot, Bayview Avenue near Millwood Road, 1938 (Toronto Daily Star, 13 May 1938, 30, illus. and descrip.; and 23 Sept. 1938, 34, illus.; C.R., lii, 15 Feb. 1939, 29)
ETOBICOKE, Pine Point Golf Club House, Islington Avenue at Allenby Avenue, North Etobicoke, 1938; still standing in 2016 (Globe & Mail [Toronto], 23 Sept. 1938, 21, illus.)
STRATHGOWAN AVENUE, near Garland Avenue, residence for Atwell Fleming Jr., overlooking Blythwood Ravine Park, 1938 (Toronto Daily Star, 7 Oct. 1938, 34, illus.)