Robert Findlay

Robert Findlay

Robert Findlay (1859-1951) was a Canadian architect. He was born in Inverness, Scotland, and moved to Montreal in 1885. He won the competition for the first Sun Life Building, and was the architect for the project, which he began in 1890. The Sun Life company left this building for its current location in 1913.

Findlay cultivated an extensive practice, working in later years with his son, Frank. He designed many homes for Montreal merchants and businessmen, including the Bronfman family and the Molson family. Many of these homes were in the "Golden Square Mile" and in the city of Westmount. Many of the Golden Square Mile homes he designed were later purchased by McGill University, including the Mortimer Davis House (now Purvis Hall). He also designed the Calvary Congregational Church in Westmount (1911), located at the intersection of Greene Street and Dorchester (now René-Lévesque) Boulevard, but was demolished in 1961. He was also responsible for Mull Hall (1916), (later known as Stewart Hall) on Lakeshore Rd, and for the Hallward House (1925), later the Martlet House, now home to McGill's Faculty of Medicine administrative offices.

External links

* [http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/resources/guide/vol2_3/gen09.htm#FINDLAY,%20ROBERT,%201859-1951 McGill archives profile]
* [http://art-history.concordia.ca/RVACanada/abstracts/power.html "Robert Findlay and the Macaulay Family Architecture" by Hazel Power] (1993 thesis abstract)
* [http://pointeclaire.ville.montreal.qc.ca/En/visitor/Stewart/Stewart.asp Stewart Hall]
* [http://www.westlib.org/english/chronology.htm Westmount Public Library: chronology]
* [http://blackader.library.mcgill.ca/campus/buildings/Purvis_Hall.html Purvis Hall (formerly Sir Mortimer B. Davis House) from Virtual McGill]
* [http://blackader.library.mcgill.ca/campus/buildings/Martlet_House.html Martlet House (formerly Hallward House) from Virtual McGill]


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