Henry Simpson (1864–1926) was an architect active in

Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

Ontario Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the Population of Canada by province and territory, country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it ...

, Canada, around the turn of the 20th century. Simpson trained under prominent architect

E.J. Lennox Edward James Lennox (September 12, 1854 – April 15, 1933) was a Toronto-based architect who designed several of the city's most notable landmarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Old City Hall (Toronto), Old City ...

, and the buildings he designed were in the

Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a architectural style, style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revivalism (architecture), revival style incorporates 11th- and 12th-century ...

style Lennox had helped popularize. He was one of the architects employed by the prominent

Massey family The Massey family is a Canadian family with Methodist roots that has been prominent since the mid-19th century, known for manufacturing farm equipment and for being patrons of the arts in Canada. The family's manufacturing company, later known ...

, well-known philanthropists. Simpson worked with Charles J. Gibson from 1888 to 1890. Over a dozen buildings he designed have survived to the present day. According to the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada Simpson played a role in the design of 126 buildings from 1891 to 1916.

Simpson's buildings that have survived to the 21st Century

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Simpson, Henry 1864 births 1926 deaths People from Old Toronto 20th-century Canadian architects 19th-century Canadian architects