Edmund Burke (architect)

Edmund Burke (1851–1919) was a highly regarded Canadian architect best known for building Toronto's Prince Edward Viaduct or "Bloor Street Viaduct", and Toronto's Robert Simpson store. He served as the vice-president, then President of the Ontario Association of Architects.

Edmund Burke
BornOctober 31, 1851
Toronto, Canada West
DiedJanuary 2, 1919(1919-01-02) (aged 68)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUpper Canada College
OccupationArchitect
SpouseMinnie Jane Black (m. 1881)
ProjectsPrince Edward Viaduct

Personal

Burke was born in Toronto to parents with ties to building industry:

Education and training

Burke attended Jesse Ketchum School, Upper Canada College and Toronto Mechanics' Institute[2] before apprenticing as an architect with his maternal uncle and forming the firm Langley and Burke in 1873.

Later life and death

Most of Burke's professional career was in Toronto and he lived a little more than a decade after his uncle's death. Burke died in the city and is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, where he designed the mortuary chapel in 1893.[3]

Works
Building Year Completed Builder Style Source Location Image
St. Luke's United Church 1874 Henry Langley and Edmund Burke Romanesque Revival 15 Sherborne Street and Carlton Street, Toronto, Ontario
St. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Church 1878 Henry Langley & Edmund Burke Gothic Revival 15 383 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario
Jarvis Street Baptist Church 1878 Henry Langley & Edmund Burke Gothic Revival Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario
McMaster Hall 1881 Henry Langley, Henry Langley and Edmund Burke (Design) Romanesque Revival 2 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario
Beverley Street Baptist Church 1886 Henry Langley & Edmund Burke Gothic Revival 6 72 Beverley Street, Toronto, Ontario
Trinity-St. Paul's United Church 1887–1889 Henry Langley and Edmund Burke Gothic Revival 15 Bloor Street west of Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Prince Edward Viaduct 1881 Edmund Burke Gothic Revival Toronto, Ontario
Robert Simpson's Department Store Building 1896, 1908, 1923 Edmund Burke Romanesque Revival, Chicago School Toronto, Ontario
Orillia City Hall – rebuild plans for Orillia City Hall built in 1895 by Gordon & Helliwell 1915 Edmund Burke, J.C.B. Horwood and Murray White [4] Romanesque Revival 20 Mississauga Street West, Orillia, Ontario
Owens Art Gallery 1895 Edmund Burke Renaissance Revival Mount Allison University, 61 York Street, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Hammond/Black House (home for Fine Arts head John Hammond and now residence to the President of Mount Allison University) 1896 Edmund Burke Queen Anne Revival-style Mount Allison University, 82 York Street, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Walmer Road Baptist Church 1889–1892 Edmund Burke & Henry Langley Gothic Revival 188 Lowther Street, Toronto, Canada

References
  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2019-04-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Biography – BURKE, EDMUND (1850–1919) – Volume XIV (1911–1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". Archived from the original on 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  3. "Biography – BURKE, EDMUND (1850–1919) – Volume XIV (1911–1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". Archived from the original on 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-01-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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