Prefontaine, Alfred | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

PREFONTAINE, Alfred (1865-1945) was active in Montreal from 1890 where he registered with the Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects in August 1895. By 1905 he had moved to Longueuil, Que. and maintained an office there until after 1915. The Archives Nationales du Quebec at Montreal holds a small collection of his original drawings dating from 1892 onward (ANQM, CAR 40/5). These records include several stylistic design alternatives for a group of houses on St. Charles Street in Longueuil dated 1892. Prefontaine died at Longueuil, Que. on 23 March 1945.

MONTREAL, QUE., building for the Congregational Nuns, 1890 (C.R., I, 5 July 1890, 2)
LONGUEUIL, QUE., pair of houses for Thomas Prefontaine, St. Charles Street at Grant Street, 1892 (dwgs. ANQM)
ST. JULIE DE VERCHERES, QUE., presbytery for the Roman Catholic church, 1892 (C.R., iii, 12 March 1892, 2)
HEMMINGFORD, QUE., Roman Catholic church and vestry, 1893 (C.R., iv, 21 Sept. 1893, 1, t.c.)
MONTREAL, QUE., isolation hospital for the Villa Maria Roman Catholic Convent in Notre Dame de Grace, 1894 (C.R., v, 30 Aug. 1894, 2)
MONTREAL, QUE., Ecole St. Louis, Roy Street, 1895 (C.R., vi, 23 May 1895, 4, dwgs. ANQM)
ST. HUBERT, QUE., barn for M. Rocheleau, c. 1895 (dwgs. ANQM)
ST. HUBERT, QUE., residence for Alexis Tremblay, c. 1895 (dwgs. ANQM)
MONTREAL, QUE., Academie St. Leon, c. 1895 (dwgs. ANQM)
COTEAU DU LAC, QUE., residence for A.A. Wilson, c. 1895 (dwgs. ANQM)
MONTREAL, QUE., Roman Catholic Monastery for the Carmelites, Carmel Avenue at Henri-Julien Avenue, 1895-96 (Gazette [Montreal], 8 Oct. 1896, 2, descrip.; Montreal, Les Couvents, 1984, 24-9, illus.)
ST. EUSTACHE, QUE., major addition to the Roman Catholic Church, 1896-97 (C.R., vii, 24 Dec. 1896, 2)
BOUCHERVILLE, QUE., residence for Rev. J. Primeau, 1896 (C.R., vii, 23 April 1896, 2; dwgs. ANQM)
MONTREAL, QUE., Roman Catholic Convent at Pointe St. Charles for the Notre Dame Congregation, 1897-98 (dwgs. CCA, DR73 001)
MONTREAL, QUE., residence for Elzear Cote, Sherbrooke Street, 1897 (C.R., viii, 6 May 1897, 3, t.c.; dwgs. ANQM)
MONTREAL, QUE., Sisters of Jesus & Mary Roman Catholic Convent, Mount Royal Avenue, 1897 (C.R., viii, 11 March 1897, 2; C.A.B., xi, Feb. 1898, 27)
POINTE AUX TREMBLES, QUE., residence for Andre Brisset Jr., 1897 (C.R., viii, 22 April 1897, 2, t.c.)
ST. EUSTACHE, QUE., Roman Catholic Convent for the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame, 1897-98 (C.R., viii, 30 Sept. 1897, 2, t.c.)
BOUCHERVILLE, QUE., Roman Catholic College, 1897-98 (C.R., viii, 23 Dec. 1897, 3)
ST. EUSTACHE, QUE., residence for Dr. Charles Marcil, 1900 (Le Prix Courant, xxvii, 30 March 1900, 1035)
MONTREAL, QUE., terrace of six houses for E. Clement, Laval Avenue at Pine Avenue, 1903-04 (Le Prix Courant, xxxvi, 20 Nov. 1903, 43; dwgs. ANQM)
POINTE AUX TREMBLES, QUE., restoration of the residence for Ernest Archambeault, 1904 (dwgs. ANQM; dwgs. CCA DR 73 003)
ST. CONSTANT, QUE., presbytery for the Roman Catholic Church, 1910 (dwgs. ANQM)
BERTHIER-EN-HAUT, QUE., major addition to the Roman Catholic Brothers school, 1911-12 (C.R., xxv, 15 Nov. 1911, 58)
LONGUEUIL, QUE., central portion of the City Hall, St. Charles Street West, linking the old Fire Hall (1869) to the old market building, 1913 (Societe Historique et Culturelle du Marigot, "Walking Tour of Old Longueuil", website, 2014)
LONGUEUIL, QUE., Roman Catholic School, St. Charles Street, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 6 Aug. 1913, 64, t.c.)