Kivas Tully was an Irish-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...

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Born in Garryvacum in County Laois

County Laois

County Laois is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Midlands Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It was formerly known as Queen's County until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. The county's name was formerly spelt as Laoighis and Leix. Laois County Council...

, Ireland

Ireland

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, Kivas Tully was the son of John P. Tully, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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, and Alicia Willington. He trained as an architect at the Royal Naval School

Royal Naval School

The Royal Naval School was an English school that was established in Camberwell, London, in 1833 and then formally constituted by the Royal Naval College Act 1840. It was a charitable institution, established as a boarding school for the sons of officers in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Many of...

 in London, England, before coming to the Province of Canada

Canada

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 in 1844, arriving in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, where he began working at the firm of John George Howard, designing many important buildings throughout southern Ontario.

Following Canadian Confederation

Canadian Confederation

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, Tully joined the Ontario Department of Public Works in 1868. He was involved in the supervising of the competition leading to the design of the Ontario parliament buildings at Queen's Park. As the provincial department of public works's chief architect, Kivas Tully supervised a series of district court houses built in northern Ontario. The court house at Parry Sound designed in 1871 still forms the core of the present court house complex.

He retired in 1896 and died in Toronto in 1905. In 1903 he was awarded the Imperial Service Order

Imperial Service Order

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St. Paul's, Bloor Street

St. Paul's, Bloor Street

The Church of St Paul's, Bloor Street, is a large parish of the Anglican Church of Canada in the Diocese of Toronto.Located in downtown Toronto near the denomination's national headquarters, the parish, along with Little Trinity Anglican Church, is one of historical flagship low church parishes of...

 Anglican Church was built in Gothic Revival between 1851 and 1854 to the combined designs of Henry Bowyer Lane

Henry Bowyer Lane

Henry Bowyer Joseph Lane was an English architect who worked in Toronto from c. 1841 to 1847.Lane's education included time at Blundell's School in Tiverton and subsequent professional training in England before he emigrated to Canada in 1841, living first in Cobourg, Upper Canada, and then in...

 and Kivas Tully.

Works

Some of his more prominent designs include:

Building	Year Completed	Style	Location	Image
St. Paul's, Bloor Street St. Paul's, Bloor Street The Church of St Paul's, Bloor Street, is a large parish of the Anglican Church of Canada in the Diocese of Toronto.Located in downtown Toronto near the denomination's national headquarters, the parish, along with Little Trinity Anglican Church, is one of historical flagship low church parishes of...	1851-1854	Gothic Revival	Toronto, Ontario
Old Trinity College, Toronto University of Trinity College The University of Trinity College, informally referred to as Trin, is a college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1851 by Bishop John Strachan. Trinity was intended by Strachan as a college of strong Anglican alignment, after the University of Toronto severed its ties with the Church of...	1852	Gothic Revival	Toronto, Ontario
Victoria Hall (City Hall),		Gothic Revival	Cobourg, Ontario Cobourg, Ontario Cobourg is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Southern Ontario 95 km east of Toronto. It is the largest town in Northumberland County. Its nearest neighbour is Port Hope, to the west. It is located along Highway 401 and the former Highway 2...
First Trenton Town hall		Gothic Revival	Trenton, Ontario Trenton, Ontario Trenton is a community in Southern Ontario in the municipality of Quinte West, Ontario, Canada. Located on the Bay of Quinte, it is the main population centre in Quinte West....

• Old Bank of Montreal Building, Toronto
• Mimico Branch Asylum, Toronto, Ontario
• Welland Court House, Welland, Ontario
  Welland, Ontario
  Welland is a city in the Regional Municipality of Niagara in Southern Ontario, Canada.The city has been traditionally known as the place where rails and water meet, referring to the railways from Buffalo to Toronto and Southwestern Ontario, and the waterways of Welland Canal and Welland River,...
  
  
• The court house Parry Sound, Ontario
  Parry Sound, Ontario
  Parry Sound is a town in Central Ontario, Canada, located on Parry Sound on the eastern shore of Georgian Bay. Parry Sound is located south of Sudbury and north of Toronto. It is the seat of Parry Sound District, a popular cottage country region for Southern Ontario residents. It is also the...
  
  

Publications

• Preliminary report of the engineer, on the survey of the various routes, for the proposed ship canal, to connect the waters of lakes Huron & Ontario at Toronto, presented to the president of the Board of Trade, 1857