MOORE, Herbert Edmund (1874-1953) was born in Hamilton, Ont. on 26 April 1874 and trained in the office of William Stewart (in 1892-96). He worked as a draftsman in Buffalo, N.Y. for George Metzgar (in 1897) and for Green & Wicks (in 1902), and in Toronto for Darling & Pearson (in 1898-1901). He then joined the Ontario Provincial Dept. of Public Works Office in Toronto (in 1903-06) and became assistant to John M. Lyle (in 1906-09). Moore joined in a formal partnership with Lyle in late 1909 as Lyle & Moore, Architects, but their collaboration was brief, and dissolved in January 1910 (Toronto Daily Star, 12 Jan. 1910, 9).
Moore then worked briefly under his own name in 1910-11 and collaborated with William Bevan on two important competition submissions (see Bevan & Moore). From 1912 until 1919 he was staff architect in the office of Burke, Horwood & White and remained with the successor firm of Horwood & White until after 1930. He was elected President of the Ontario Assoc. of Architects in 1920-21, and was nominated as a Fellow of R.A.I.C. in 1930. During the Depression era he designed a striking modernist outdoor stage set for the Toronto Centennial celebrations in 1933 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xi, Nov. 1934, 158, illus. & descrip.). He then rejoined the Ontario Dept. of Public Works as a superintending architect and held that position until his retirement. Moore died in Toronto on 16 March 1953 (obit. Globe & Mail [Toronto], 17 March 1953, 7; Telegram [Toronto], 17 March 1953, 36; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxx, April 1953, 116; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects). A photographic portrait of Moore was published in the Toronto Star, 28 Feb. 1930, 28.
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OUR LADY OF LOURDES ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Earl Street near Sherbourne Street, a rectory for the church, 1910-11 (Toronto b.p. 19690, 9 April 1910; Const., iii, Sept. 1910, 61, illus.; iv, Nov. 1911, 75-6, illus.)
ST. THOMAS SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, Earl Street, a new student residence, 1920 (dwgs. OA, Horwood Coll., 625)