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Darling and Pearson was an
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firm based in
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from 1895 through 1937. The firm was prolific and produced consistently fine work though the patronage of notable figures of the Canadian establishment, and is responsible for enhancing the architectural character and quality of the city, and indeed the rest of Canada, in the first quarter of the 20th century.


Formation

The firm was organized first as Darling, Curry, Sproatt, & Pearson in 1892, with partners Frank Darling, S. George Curry, Henry Sproatt, and John A. Pearson. From 1893 through 1896 it evolved into Darling, Sproatt & Pearson, then finally Darling and Pearson was founded as such in 1897. Its heyday began with Darling's commissions from the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1898, grand Edwardian buildings in Toronto, Winnipeg, Montreal, and Vancouver, and dozens of smaller branches in smaller Canadian cities and towns. Darling's training with the English architect
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and Sir Arthur Blomfield in the early 1870s brought a serious, substantial, Victorian influence, well-suited to large civic and institutional projects in the years of the nation's development. Their subsequent projects included the first tall steel-frame building in Canada (the Royal Tower in Winnipeg, 1904), the tallest building in Canada for three decades (the 1930 Canadian Bank of Commerce Building in Toronto, with
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of New York), and the largest single building in the British Commonwealth (the Sun Life Building,
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, Started in 1914 and tower added by1931).


Legacy

After the deaths of Frank Darling in 1923 and Pearson in 1940, the firm was renamed Darling, Pearson and Cleveland with Darling's nephew as a partner.


Notable buildings


Darling and Pearson

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Toronto Chapter House, 1894. Originally known as the Ince house * Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre, 1898. Originally a curling rink *
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, Flavelle House, 1901 * Union Bank Building, 500 Main Street, Winnipeg, with the George A. Fuller Co., 1904 * 197 Yonge Street, Toronto, 1905 - renovated former banking building * Canadian Bank of Commerce, Watson, Saskatchewan, 1906 * Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, 1906 * Moose Jaw Court House, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan 1908 * Old Canadian Bank of Commerce Building, Montreal, 1906–09 *
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Sanford Fleming Building and Sigmund Samuel Building, 1907, and additions to the latter in 1912 * The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, 1908 * Grain Exchange Building - 167 Lombard Street,
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, 1906-1908 *
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, College Wing, now the MaRS Discovery District building, 1911 * Canadian Pacific Building, Toronto, for a time the tallest building in Canada, 1913 * One King Street West, Toronto, 1914 *
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original building (west wing - Italianate-Neo-Romanesque), 1914 *
Parkwood Estate The Parkwood Estate, located in Oshawa, Ontario, was the residence of Samuel McLaughlin (founder of General Motors of Canada) and was home to the McLaughlin family from 1917 until 1972. The residence was designed by Darling and Pearson, a no ...
, 1916 * North Toronto railway station of the Canadian Pacific Railway 1916 *
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original building, 1916 * MaRS Discovery District - old
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College Street wing - 101 College Street,
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, 1919 *
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, Toronto, 1926 * Private Patients Pavilion (Thomas J. Bell Wing),
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, 1930 – Demolished * Canadian Bank of Commerce Building in
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; now Commerce Court North, 1930 * Canadian General Electric Building, 212 King Street West, Toronto, 1908


Darling, Pearson and Cleveland

* Sun Life Building,
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, 1931 * expansions to the
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, 1935


Images

File:197 Yonge Street Toronto.jpg, 197 Yonge Street, Toronto File:Summerhill_Tower.JPG, Summerhill-North Toronto CPR Station, its 140-foot clock tower modelled on the Campanile di San Marco in Venice File:Convocation Hall in UofT.jpg, Convocation Hall, Toronto File:Sun-Life-Building-June-2007.jpg, Sun Life Building, Montreal File:MaRSfromCollege.jpg, Toronto General Hospital, College Wing File:Cdn Bank of Commerce Watson Saskatchewan.jpg, Canadian Bank of Commerce
Watson, Saskatchewan File:Flavellelaw.JPG, Flavelle House, home of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, Toronto File:Royal Ontario Museum, south facade, 1922.jpg, The 1914 Italianate-Neo-Romanesque Royal Ontario Museum original building in 1922 File:Art Gallery of Ontario 1922.jpg, AGO original wing, Toronto File:Varsity Centre.JPG, Varsity Arena roof behind Varsity Centre seating, Toronto File:Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 02.jpg, Canadian Bank of Commerce, Montreal File:One King Street West.JPG, One King Street West, Toronto File:Parkwood Estate National Historic Site of Canada 2007.jpg,
Parkwood Estate The Parkwood Estate, located in Oshawa, Ontario, was the residence of Samuel McLaughlin (founder of General Motors of Canada) and was home to the McLaughlin family from 1917 until 1972. The residence was designed by Darling and Pearson, a no ...
, Oshawa File:Union Bank of Canada, Leland Hotel, Volunteer Monument and City Hall, Winnipeg, Man. ..jpg, Union Bank of Canada on the left, in
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,
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References


External links


Bell Wing (TGH)
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