Toronto Postal Delivery Building Postcard

Charles Brammall Dolphin (March 3, 1888 – June 28, 1969) was a British-Canadian architect who designed various buildings in

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, most notably the Toronto Postal Delivery Building (now incorporated into the

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). Born in

Ashton-under-Lyne Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The population was 45,198 at the 2011 census. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the north bank of the River Tame, in the foothills of the Pennines, east of Manche ...

, England, Dolphin immigrated to Canada. He was married to Doris Alexandrine Stovel and had several children: William (died as infant), Flight Lieutenant Douglas Dolphin, RCAF (d. 1944) and Nancy Jane Dolphin (1937–2002), Robert Dolphin and Shirley Dolphin. He died in Toronto in 1969.

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William McBrien Building William McBrien Building (formally known as the W. C. McBrien Building) is the administrative headquarters of the Toronto Transit Commission. Designed by Charles B. Dolphin (1888-1969) and opened on February 7, 1958, the seven-storey building is lo ...

(1900 Yonge Street) 1957–1958 – International Style office tower * Toronto Postal Delivery Building 1947 – most of original

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unit ...

was building demolished with only portions of the south & east facades remaining * The Clarendon (2 Clarendon Avenue) 1926–1927 –

Tudor Revival Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...

apartments * Bloor-Yonge (TTC) subway station (20 Bloor Street East) 1954 * Consumers Gas Showroom (2532 Yonge Street) 1930–1932

building restored by ERA Architects. * Arthur Meighen Building (Postal Station Q 25 St Clair Ave East) 1954 *

Toronto Coach Terminal The Toronto Coach Terminal is a decommissioned bus station for intercity bus services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The building was the central intercity bus station in Toronto until mid-2021, when it was replaced by the Union Station Bus Ter ...

(610 Bay Street) 1931–1932; altered 1990 * St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Port Credit (24 Stavenbank Road) 1926–1927 * Toronto Ski Club clubhouse (near 11901 Yonge Street), Richmond Hill, Ontario 1930

Personal

Dolphin was married to Doris Alexandrine LeGendre Stovel had several children (Nancy Jane Dolphin (1937–2002), William Dolphin,

Flight Lieutenant Flight lieutenant is a junior Officer (armed forces)#Commissioned officers, commissioned rank in air forces that use the Royal Air Force (RAF) RAF officer ranks, system of ranks, especially in Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries. I ...

Douglas Dolphin (d. 1944), Robert Dolphin and Shirley Dolphin).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dolphin, Charles B. 1888 births 1969 deaths Canadian architects 20th-century English architects People from Ashton-under-Lyne British emigrants to Canada