Payton, Herbert John | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

PAYTON, Herbert John (1879-1934), a contractor from Toronto who began to advertise himself as an architect there in 1906. He moved to Saskatoon in 1912 and during the next five years he was said to have designed "...a number of our most important structures... and many of our most pretentious residences" (biography, portrait and list of works in The Saturday Press [Saskatoon], 1912, Supplement, 27). In 1919 Payton relocated his office, at first in Winnipeg, Man. and he then moved to Dauphin, Man. in 1920. By 1924 he had decided to discontinue his practice and was living in Port Arthur, Ont.. He died there on 6 December 1934 (Const., xvii, June 1924, 210).

TORONTO, ONT., residence for George Wood, Kingston Road near Pickering Street, 1910 (Toronto b.p. 20947, 1 June 1910)
SASKATOON, SASK., Exhibition Grandstand, at the Exhibition Grounds, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 17 April 1912, 66; Saskatoon Daily Star, 23 May 1912, 3, descrip.)
SASKATOON, SASK., West Side Fire Hall, Avenue B South at 21st Street, c. 1912 (list of works in The Saturday Press [Saskatoon], 1912, Supplement, 27)
SASKATOON, SASK., Board of Trade Building, 1st Avenue, c. 1912 (list of works in The Saturday Press [Saskatoon], 1912, Supplement, 27)
SASKATOON, SASK., mortuary at the public cemetery, c. 1912 (Daily Phoenix [Saskatoon], 27 April 1912, Section Two, p. 2; list of works in The Saturday Press [Saskatoon], 1912, Supplement, 27)
SASKATOON, SASK., residence for C.H. Spencer, 4th Avenue, 1912 (Saskatoon Daily Star, 24 April 1912, 15, t.c.)
SASKATOON, SASK., residence for J.G. Nicholson, 6th Avenue, 1912 (Saskatoon Daily Star, 24 April 1912, 15, t.c.)
DAUPHIN, MAN., residence for William J. Houston, Fifth Avenue N.W. at First Street N.W., 1919 (Manitoba, Dauphin: An Architectural Walking Tour, 1988, item 19)
DAUPHIN, MAN., Smith-Jackson Public School, Main Street at 7th Avenue, 1920; demol. c. 1988 (Dauphin Herald, 17 June 1920, 1, t.c.; C.R., xxxiv, 30 June 1920, 48, t.c.)
DAUPHIN, MAN., residence for M. Worn, 1921 (C.R., xxxv, 23 March 1921, 55, t.c.)