COLANGELO, Patsy (1907-1984), son of Joseph Colangelo, a Montreal policeman, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1907 and brought to Montreal by his family at the age of six. He trained with William S. Wright (in 1927-28) and with Irenee Vautrin (in 1930) while attending the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal. He graduated in 1931 and opened his own office there in late 1934. His most distinctive and memorable work was the striking Art Deco design for the Italian Club, MONTREAL, QUE, 1936-37, a building which was a focus for the activity for members of the Italian-Canadian Fascist Party. During WWII, the Canadian Army occupied the building and the interiors suffered much abuse. Colangelo was arrested in 1939 and spent nearly a month in Bordeaux Jail because of his involvement in the design of the building and for his participation in political events there. Much of his later work was devoted to schemes for apartment blocks in Outremont and in Montreal. He died in Montreal on 22 November 1984 (death notice Gazette [Montreal], 24 Nov. 1984, G11; inf. Prov. of Quebec Association of Architects).
MAISON d'ITALIE, Jean Talon Street East at Berri Street, 1936 (Daily Commercial News [Toronto], 26 Nov. 1936, 6, illus. & descrip.; Montreal b.p. 1538, 1936; Building in Canada, Autumn 1939, 9, illus.; Tim Morawetz, Art Deco Architecture Across Canada, 2017, 119, illus. & descrip.)
OUTREMONT, duplex for Valere Crisafi, Willowdale Avenue, 1937 (Outremont b.p. 3221, 30 June 1937)
OUTREMONT, Anita Apartments, Willowdale Avenue, 1937-38 (Outremont b.p. 3280, 16 Dec. 1937; Montreal, Les Appartements, 1991, 437-8, illus.; Tim Morawetz, Art Deco Architecture Across Canada, 2017, 140, illus. & descrip.)
OUTREMONT, Modern Court Apartments, Willowdale Avenue, near Canterbury Avenue, 1938 (Outremont b.p. 3322, 10 June 1938; Gazette [Montreal], 30 July 1938, 21, illus.; Montreal, Les Appartements, 1991, 439-41, illlus.; Tim Morawetz, Art Deco Architecture Across Canada, 2017, 141, illus. & descrip.; inf. Scott Edwards)
JARRY STREET EAST, at Drolet Street, a three-storey block of stores and apartments, 1938 (Gazette [Montreal], 20 Aug. 1938, 10; inf. Scott Edwards)
OUTREMONT, Biltmore Apartments, St. Joseph Boulevard, 1938-39 (Outremont b.p. 3360, 4 Oct. 1938; C.R., lii, 11 Jan. 1939, 30)
COOLBROOKE AVENUE, near Snowdon Avenue, three double duplex houses, containing 12 units, 1939 (Montreal Daily Star, 9 Feb. 1939, 32)
GARDEN CITY PARK APARTMENTS, Decelles Avenue, between Cote Ste. Catherine Road and Maplewood Avenue, two separate apartment blocks for the Asconi Building Corp., 1939-40; with addition of two more apartment blocks in 1940-41 (Gazette [Montreal], 19 Aug. 1939, 19, illus. & descrip.; and 11 Nov. 1940, 20; inf. Scott Edwards) These two blocks of apartments are part of six different blocks in the Garden City Park complex which were designed by various architects (see also Jean J. Thibodeau)
THE GEORGE & ELIZABETH APARTMENTS, Cote Ste. Catherine Road, west of Cote des Neiges Road, 1939 (Gazette [Montreal], 19 Aug. 1939, 19, illus. & descrip.)
MOUNT ROYAL, Inglenook Apartments, Chester Avenue at Wembley Road, 1939-40 (Gazette [Montreal], 25 Nov. 1939, 23, descrip.; and 6 Jan. 1940, 21, illus. & descrip.; inf. Scott Edwards)
PIE IX BOULEVARD, near Boyce Street, an apartment block with 13 suites, 1941 (Montreal Daily Star, 8 Jan. 1941, 23)
MILANO APARTMENTS, Sherbrooke Street West at Mayfair Avenue, major addition, 1943 (Montreal, Les Appartements, 1991, 421-3, illus.)
LACHINE, tract of nineteen houses for G.F. Renou, 1944 (C.R., xvii, 20 Sept. 1944, 102; lix, June 1946, 142)
OUTREMONT, residence for Alfred A. Hyatt, Outremont Avenue, 1945 (Outremont b.p. 4001, 5 Oct. 1945)
AYER'S CLIFF, QUE., major addition and alterations to the juvenat [or Roman Catholic school] for Les Peres Servites de Marie, 1948 (C.R., lxi, July 1948, 130)
GATTUSO OLIVE OIL CO. LTD., Cote de Liesse Road, offices and warehouse, 1949 (C.R., lxii, March 1949, 140)
ST. LAURENT, indoor skating arena, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, April 1950, 180)
LE DEFENSE ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH, major addition to the church (likely Eglise Notre Dame de la Defense Church), Henri Julien Avenue, 1950-51 (C.R., lxiii, Sept. 1950, 123)