Foulk, Sidney Winfield | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

FOULK, Sidney Winfield (1848-1932) of New Castle, Pennsylvania designed a substantial summer residence for J.P.H. Cunningham on Tondern Island, LAKE MUSKOKA, ONT., c. 1895 (inf. Stephen A. Otto, Toronto). Foulk was born and educated in Ohio and began his career in New Castle, Penn. in 1883. His major works there, invariably designed in a brusque Romanesque Revival style, include First United Presbyterian Church (1894), and the local Y.M.C.A. branch (1894). He is also credited with other branches of the Y.M.C.A. in Charleston, S.C. (1889), Wilmington, N.C. (1891), Norfolk, Va. and in Staunton, Va., and designed several buildings on the campus of the State Normal School at Slippery Rock, Pa. in 1893-94. Foulk left Pennsylvania after 1908 and continued to practice in Colorado and Texas. He died in Long Beach, Calif. on 11 October 1932 (obit. New Castle News, 13 Oct. 1932; inf. Virginia W. Foulk, New Castle, Penn.; Ms. P. McCormick, New Castle Public Library)