EVANS, Abraham Joseph (1839-1912), a native of Swansea, South Wales, moved to Bruce County, Ontario in 1865 and was active in Kincardine, Ont. where he worked as an architect, builder and proprietor of a planing mill and sash and door factory. In 1872 he was commissioned by the Town Council for design the Town Hall in Kincardine (1872). He was also the designer of several large residences executed in the Second Empire style, including his own house on Princes Street in Kincardine. A brief biography of Evans can be found in the Illustrated Historical Atlas of Grey & Bruce Co., 1880, 102. Evans died in Toronto on 23 December 1912 (death notice Toronto Star, 24 Dec. 1912, 16).
KINCARDINE, ONT., "Lynden Hall", the residence for W.H. Carpenter, Kincardine Avenue, c. 1870 (Ruth Cathcart, The Architecture of a Provincial Society: Houses of Bruce County 1850-1900, 1999, 90-1, illus. & descrip.)
KINCARDINE, ONT., Town Hall, Queen Street, 1872 (OA, Town of Kincardine, Minutes of Council, 30 August 1872; Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, 80 for 80: Celebrating 80 Years of the A.C.O., 2013, 154-55, illus. & descrip., but lacking attribution)
KINCARDINE, ONT., residence for Abraham J. Evans, architect, Princes Street, c. 1875 (Ruth Cathcart, The Architecture of a Provincial Society: Houses of Bruce County 1850-1900, 1999, 102-03, illus. & descrip.)