John Danley Atchison (1870-1959)

Architect.

Born at Monmouth, Illinois in February 1870, son of Nathaniel Atchison and Elizabeth Danley, he was trained at the Chicago Art Institute and the Chicago Manual Training School before moving to Winnipeg in 1905. He served on the Art Committee of the Winnipeg School of Art from 1913 to 1924. Atchison was the most important “Chicago style” architect in Winnipeg, designing nearly 100 buildings.

He moved to California in 1922.

Some of his buildings in Winnipeg:

• Peck Building (33 Princess Street), 1893-1894
• McIntyre Block (416 Main Street), 1898
• Kennedy Block (315 Portage Avenue), 1906
• Wardlaw Apartments (544 Wardlaw Avenue), 1906
• Fairchild Building (110-120 Princess Street), 1907
• Campbell residence (16 Ruskin Row), 1908
• R. M. Dennistoun residence (166 Roslyn Road), 1908
• Canada Permanent Building (296-298 Garry Street), 1909
• Devon Court (376 Broadway Avenue), 1909
• Grosvenor Court (161-165 Stafford Street), 1909
• Maltese Cross Building (66 King Street), 1909
• Dr. Charles A. Mackenzie residence (408 Wellington Crescent), 1909
• Great West Life Building (177 Lombard Avenue), 1909-1911
• Allan Killam McKay Building (364 Main Street), 1911-1912
• Boyd Building (388 Portage Avenue), 1912
• Industrial Bureau Exposition Building (Main Street at Water Avenue), 1912
• Union Tower Building (387 Main Street), 1912
• Merchants Bank (1386 Main Street), 1913
• Union Trust Tower (191 Lombard Avenue), 1913
• Tribune Building (257 Smith Street), 1914
• Curry Building (227-249 Portage Avenue), 1915
• Bank of Hamilton (395 Main Street), 1916-1918
• Bank of Commerce (315 Portage Avenue), 1919
• Manitoba School for the Deaf (500 Shaftesbury Boulevard), 1921-1922
• Medical Arts Building (Graham Avenue at Kennedy Street), 1922-1923

Sources:

Crescentwood, A History by R. R. Rostecki, Winnipeg: Crescentwood Home Owners Association, 1993.

Profile revised: 15 February 2009

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