S. George Curry

S [amuel] George Curry (Port Hope ["Dictionary of Canadian Biography: 1921 to 1930", "s.v." "Frank Darling"] 1854 — 1942) was a Canadian architect who practiced in Toronto as the junior partner of several of Toronto’s leading architects, among them Frank Darling and from 1892 Darling's partner John A. Pearson, Henry Sproatt, Francis S. Baker, Ernest Rolph and W. F. Sparling. [ [http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2007/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-4891.pdf Application for status under the Ontario Heritage Act : John McKay Store] .]

In 1880, in partnership with Frank Darling, he designed the first-place entry for the new Canadian Parliament Buildings; through delay and politicking the design was not executed. Darling and Curry built the former Bank of Montreal building at the corner of Yonge and Front streets (now housing the Hockey Hall of Fame) and the Victoria Hospital for Sick Children on College Street, Toronto.

Curry, who was a member of the Toronto Architectural Guild [An August 1888 photograph of Curry with eleven other members is illustrated in Eric Ross Arthur and Stephen A. Otto, "Toronto, No Mean City" (University of Toronto Press) 1986:240.] also worked on his own, designing the John McKay Store (1898) formerly located 36 King Street West and in the 1980s relocated at 11 Adelaide Street West, to form part of Scotia Plaza. The structure is an example of Renaissance Revival style and incorporates architectural terracotta details.

Curry was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. [ [http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp RCAA members] ]