1910 – Competition entry for Knox College, Toronto, Canada

Presumed second placed entrant in architectural competition. Described in Construction journal as
“In accordance with the expressed wish of the promoters, the round arched Norman style has been adopted, a style which seems appropriate nut only on account of the relation of the proposed building to the University and to the Library opposite, but also for the reason that it seemed a natural development of the plan and expressive of the general purposes of the building. In designing the Academic building, the fact has been borne in mind that the University should be the dominant building in the campus group, and that while the College should have a distinctive character of its own, it should be of less height than the University and much more simple in general outline and detail. As the material has much to do with the design, the suggestion is that the building, where so indicated in elevations, should be carried out in the roughly dressed stonework known a« Scotch masonry, and elsewhere in rubble stone with wide joints.”

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