COATES, Henry Crawford Jr. (1866-1944) was active in Victoria, B.C., at first under his own name from 1910, then in partnership with Arthur Fleet in 1914-15. Born in Cape Town, South Africa on 24 May 1866, he was educated at the School of Architecture at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, and trained in Philadelphia and opened an office there in 1891 in partnership with Samuel H. Day (as Day & Coates, Architects). He later started a new firm in that city in 1900 with John J. Dull (Dull & Coates, Architects) , then moved to Idaho in 1907. By 1908 he was living in San Francisco where he was employed by the firm of Howard & Galloway, and he assisted that office with the preparation of designs for several pavilions at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. Coates arrived in British Columbia in late 1910. His works include a notable Colonial style mansion for James Hunter, executed in a style rarely found in the west coast region of Canada. Coates remained in Victoria until at least 1923, then moved to Los Angeles where he later died on 10 October 1944 (obituary Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 1944, Section Two, p. 2; obituary Victoria Daily Times, 26 Oct. 1944, 13; biog. Who's Who in American Art, iv, 1947; S. Tatman, Biographical Dictionary of Philadelphia Architects, 1985, 151; D. Luxton, Building The West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 458, 496; inf. Jennifer Barr, Victoria)
H. C. COATES
VICTORIA, B.C., additions and alterations to residence for John Virtue, Simcoe Street, James Bay, 1910 (inf. Jennifer Barr, Victoria)
VICTORIA, B.C., commercial block at Government Street at Fort Street 'to replace the Bownass Block destroyed by fire', 1910-11 (C.R., xxiv, 16 Nov. 1910, 29)
VICTORIA, B.C., residence for F.B. Randall, Bay Street, 1911 (Victoria Daily Times, 10 Oct. 1911, 2)
VICTORIA, B.C., residence at Uplands for Alex J.C. McDermott, Shore Road near York Road, 1912 (Daily Colonist [Victoria], 20 Aug. 1912, 17, illus. & descrip.; Larry McCann, Imagining Uplands, 2016, 287, illus.)
VICTORIA, B.C., residence for William T. Williams, St. Charles Street near Despard Avenue, 1912 (Victoria Daily Times, 14 Sept. 1912, 22, t.c.; Daily Colonist [Victoria], 6 Oct. 1912, 21, illus.; Victoria Heritage Foundation, This Old House: Victoria's Heritage Neighbourhoods, Vol. 3, 2021, 235-36, illus. & descrip.)
VICTORIA, B.C., mansion for James Hunter, Moss Street, 1912-13 (Victoria Daily Times, 29 June 1912, 24, t.c.; Daily Colonist [Victoria], 19 Jan. 1913, 18, illus.; Victoria Heritage Foundation, This Old House: Victoria's Heritage Neighbourhoods, Vol. 3, 2021, 187-88, illus. & descrip.)
COATES & FLEET
VICTORIA, B.C., Brown Jug Hotel & Inn, Government Street, a conversion of the former Watson Block, for H.H. Maloney, 1913-14 (Victoria Daily Times, 17 Jan. 1914, 7, extensive descrip.)
VICTORIA, B.C., arena for the Victoria Curling Club, designed 1914, but not built (C.R., xxviii, 18 March 1914, 80; Stuart Stark, The B.C. Agricultural Association Exhibition Building, 2017, 256-7, illus. & descrip.)
DUNCAN, B.C., public building for the provincial B.C. Public Works Dept., 1914 (Saturday Sunset [Vancouver], 18 April 1914, 7; C.R., xxviii, 29 April 1914, 77)