John Albert Ewart - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

John Albert Ewart was a Canadian architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

was an Ottawa

Ottawa

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architect and son of Chief Dominion Architect David Ewart

David Ewart

David Ewart was a Canadian architect who served as Chief Dominion Architect from 1896 to 1914.As chief government architect he was responsible for many of the federal buildings constructed in this period...

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Ewart studied architecture at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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in the 1890s and moved to Ottawa

Ottawa

to practice with King Arnoldi in 1895 and Burritt & Meredith in 1904.

Ewart died in 1964.

List of buildings designed by Ewart include:

Booth Building, 1910-11
Transportation Building, 1916
Hunter Building, 1917-20
Metropolitan Life Building, 1924-27 (associate of Waid)
Ottawa Electric Building, 1926-27
Victoria Building, 1927-28
Architect to Ottawa Collegiate Institute Board

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