FRIPP, Sidney Bowles (1823-1870), son of Rev. Samuel Charles Fripp, was born in Bristol, Engl. on 21 July 1823 and educated in London. He began his practice in that city where he was said to have '....erected a handsome church for the Episcopal Methodist body'. In 1857 he emigrated to Canada and settled at Ottawa; one of his first commissions after arriving was to superintend the erection of the Chapel of Ease, Sussex Street. In early 1860 after the dissolution of the Ottawa branch office of Hopkins, Lawford & Nelson he was invited by Hopkins to join him in partnership (Ottawa Citizen, 17 Jan. 1860, 2, advert.). Their collaboration was short-lived, and the arrangement was quickly terminated within six months. Fripp began to advertise under his own name in August 1860, and in 1863 his plans were selected in competition over those of Henry Horsey for the design of the new By Ward Market (Ottawa Citizen, 4 Dec. 1863, 2). During the late 1860's he was frequently employed by the Board of Works under the supervision of Frederick Rubidge and was said to be '...highly valued and esteemed by that gentleman'. Fripp died in Ottawa on 17 March 1870 (obituary in the Ottawa Citizen, 18 March 1870, 2). His brother was the well-known British water-colour artist Alfred Downing Fripp (1822-1895)
OTTAWA, an outdoor commemorative archway for the visit of the Prince of Wales, 1860 (Ottawa Citizen, 25 August 1860, 3)
WELLINGTON STREET, residence for Charles H. Pinhey, 1863 (dwgs. at OA, D. Collection, Acc. 1271-76)
BY WARD MARKET, York Street, 1864-65 (Ottawa Citizen, 5 January 1864, 2; and 3 June 1864, 2, descrip.; Ottawa Union, 12 Jan. 1864, 2)
KING STREET, gas holder tank, gasometer house, retort house and chimney for the Bytown Consumer's Gas Co., 1865 (Ottawa Citizen, 27 June 1865, 2, t.c.; 16 Sept. 1865, 3, t.c.)
RICHMOND ROAD, villa for Mr. Dyke, c. 1868 (list of works in the Ottawa Citizen, 18 March 1870, 2)
BRONSON AVENUE, residence for Alexander Christie, 1869 (list of works in the Ottawa Citizen, 18 March 1870, 2; dwgs. at the Bytown Museum, Acc. JCHR 5/4)