Thomas Ridout (architect)
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Thomas Ridout | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 17, 1828 |
| Died | July 3, 1905 (aged 76) Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Architect, engineer |
Thomas Ridout (October 17, 1828 – July 3, 1905) was a Canadian architect and railway engineer.
Personal[edit]
Ridout was the son of Upper Canada official and banker Thomas Gibbs Ridout and grandson of Surveyor General of Upper Canada Thomas Ridout.
Career[edit]
Ridout completed his training at King's College, London and returned to Toronto in 1850 to practice under a short-lived partnership of Cumberland and Ridout.[2]
His architecture career was dim so with his family's influence left Toronto in 1852 to become assistant engineer with Great Western Railway in Hamilton, Ontario, with a short-lived engineering practice with Sandford Fleming in 1857, and then to Ottawa, Ontario in 1875 with the Department of Railways and Canals.[2]
Ridout died in Ottawa in 1905.
Buildings built under Cumberland and Ridout[edit]
- Toronto Normal School 1851–1852 (demolished 1958–1963)
- Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto) 1853
- Toronto Street Post Office 1853
- York County Courthouse 1853
References[edit]
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Kevin Plummer (2015-10-30). "Toronto Street: The evolution of the city's once most elegant streetscape". Torontoist. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
Called "[o]ne of the most interesting buildings left to us of the nineteenth century" by architect and historian Eric Arthur, 10 Toronto Street set a high architectural standard that was matched by its neighbours.
- ^ a b "Ridout, Thomas | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada".