Henry Simpson (Toronto)

{{Short description|Canadian architect}}

{{Other uses|Henry Simpson (disambiguation){{!}}Henry Simpson}}

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| birth_date = 1864

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| death_date = {{Death year and age|1926|1864}}

| death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| nationality = Canadian

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| occupation = architect

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Henry Simpson (1864–1926) was an architect active in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, around the turn of the 20th century.

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|title = Reasons for Designation (Statement of Significance)-- 251 King Street East: National Hotel

|publisher = City of Toronto government

|date = 2009

|archivedate = 2013-06-15

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Simpson trained under prominent architect E.J. Lennox, and the buildings he designed were in the Richardsonian Romanesque style Lennox had helped popularize.

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|url = http://www.bpfa.ca/National%20Hotel%20History.pdf

|title = Former National Hotel in peril

|publisher = Better Planning for All

|archivedate = 2013-08-24

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He was one of the architects employed by the prominent Massey family, well-known philanthropists.

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|title = Massey family fonds [multiple media].

|publisher = Collections Canada

|date = 2008-03-19

|archivedate = 2013-06-12

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|quote = The drawings were prepared by a number of architects including Joseph Ireland, E.J. Lennox, Henry Simpson, G.M. Miller, Sproatt & Rolp, Mathers & Haldenby, and Hart Massey.

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Simpson worked with Charles J. Gibson from 1888 to 1890.

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| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=w3QaRm89fNEC&q=%22Henry+Simpson%22+Lennox+Toronto&pg=PA248

| title = Toronto: No Mean City

| publisher = University of Toronto Press

| author = Eric Ross Arthur, Stephen A. Otto

| date = 1986

| page = 248

| isbn = 9780802065872

| accessdate = 2013-03-12

| quote = Back in Toronto by 1885, he practised with Henry Simpson in 1888-1890 and then went on his own once more.

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Over a dozen buildings he designed have survived to the present day.

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|title = Brief search results: Charles Simpson

|publisher = TO Built

|archivedate = 2013-04-10

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According to the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada Simpson played a role in the design of 126 buildings from 1891 to 1916.

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|url = http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/architects/view/1306

|title = SIMPSON, Henry (1864-1926)

|publisher = Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

|author = Verity Griscti, Joshua Hull

|archivedate = 2016-04-11

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