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Burke, Horwood & White
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1908-1919
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Burke, Horwood and White was a Toronto, Ontario based architectural firm which existed from 1908 to 1919 and designed a variety of buildings across Canada. The partners were Edmund Burke and J.C.B. Horwood, who had entered into a partnership in 1894, with the addition of Murray White in 1908.
Edmund Burke (1850-1919) apprenticed to the firm Gundry and Langley, then entered into a partnership with his uncles Henry and Charles Edward Langley in 1873. In 1892 he left to take over the practice of William G. Storm, which continued to operate under Burke's name. In 1894, Burke entered into a partnership with J.C.B. Horwood to form the firm Burke and Horwood.
John Charles Batstone Horwood (1864-1938) apprenticed to Langley, Langley and Burke as a student, then was with Clinton and Russell in New York City (1889 to 1894) before his partnership with Edmund Burke. Murray Alexander White (1870-1935) apprenticed with Langley and Burke from 1889 to 1893 before moving to Chicago, where he worked with the firm Holabird and Roche. In 1908 he returned to Toronto and became a full partner in the firm Burke, Horwood and White.
Burke, Horwood and White designed a variety of residential, ecclesiastical and commercial works, primarily in Toronto and other locations in southern Ontario. The firm received three commissions for buildings in Vancouver: the Hudson's Bay Company store on West Georgia Street, First Baptist Church at 969 Burrard Street, and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church at 2600 Quebec Street.
The firm designed buildings in various historical styles, but for commercial buildings always with an emphasis on modern materials and methods of construction, such as glazed terra cotta, early iron and reinforced concrete frames, and contemporary advances in fire protection.
The firm was renamed Horwood and White in 1919 after the death of Edmund Burke, and existed under that name until it was wound up 1969 by its last senior partner, E.C. Horwood.
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Toronto, Ont.
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Created 2013-09-20 SW
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Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada
Archives of Ontario Authority record for Burke, Horwood and White
Archives of Ontario, C 11 J.C.B. and E.C. Horwood Collection (various series)