1914 – Yonge Street Methodist Church, Toronto, Canada

The building was severely damaged by fire in May 1971, and afterwards demolished. Described during construction as:

It presents a simple ornate treatment with the exterior in local gray stone. The church proper is fifty-eight feet by eighty-three, the Sunday school fifty-eight by forty-five, and the club room wing thirty-eight feet square.

The auditorium will seat nearly six hundred persons, the triple entrance off Yonge street being screened by a roomy vestibule extending across the entire width of the building, with staircases leading to the gallery. This end gallery in the auditorium accommodates about one hundred, while the gallery in the school section serves the junior classes when meeting with the main school. These junior classes are located in the wing above the parlor and vestry. The pulpit platform is located at the east end, backed by the choir and organ in a recess between the church and school portions, the choir accommodating some fifty singers. The wing on this floor provides for a large ladies’ parlor, the main entrance to school building and the vestry.

The school building contains the main room and eight class rooms, all of which can be thrown together by means of sliding doors. Convenient!}’ placed in connection with this division is the library.
Construction, February 1915

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