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William Dendy fonds. File
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Advertising brochures : US/Can/British, mostly concerned with housing.

Contains materials primarily in the form of manufacturers' catalogues (dating from 1920's-1940's) re housing design and garden and greenhouse design. One publication was issued by the Ladies Home Journal and relates to bungalow design in the period pre World War II. Another item takes the form of a scrapbook compiled by Mary Eleanore Westley between 1921 and 1924 which includes clippings from magazines. These take the form of illustrations showing both exterior and interior home designs which were typical for the period. Manufacturers' catalogues include listings of home appliances, bathroom designs, greenhouse designs, and of roofing materials respectively.
One clipping (1989) contained in this file relates to plans for the new General Electric Building which is to be constructed using plastics along with other building materials.

Dendy, William

University : as student and teacher.

Includes degree certificates awarded to Dendy including a Degree of Bachelor of Arts (1976) and a Master of Arts (1979) from St. John's College in the University of Cambridge. Additionally, includes a photograph which shows Dendy receiving a degree or an award at unidenfitied ceremony or event.

Another photograph appears to depict students and staff in the school of architecture at Massey College, University of Toronto (1979-1980). Dendy was one of the staff members in this year and he is among the individuals in this photograph. All members in this photograph are identified in an accompanying list.

Finally, this file contains a photograph depicting a group of people who Dendy may have worked or studied with. The occasion on which this photograph was taken and the individuals in this photograph are, however, not identified.

Dendy, William

Architecture and art history : articles.

Includes photocopies of journal articles re art history including the Victorian High Renaissance. Other items include photocopies of a German language article re wall systems. Additionally includes a titled file folder containing ms. notes and photocopies of journal articles relating to Canadian bank architecture.

Dendy, William

Architecture and Canada (JRAIC).

Includes photocopies of journal articles from the Journal, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada dating from the 1940s and the early 1950s. These materials are subdivided into sections according to the theme to which they relate. These themes include: 1. Architecture in Toronto; 2. Parkin; 3. General; 4. Residential Architecture + Competition.

Dendy, William

Architecture : miscellaneous.

Includes miscellaneous materials relating to a wide number of themes in the fields of both architecture and art. These materials include issues of periodicals including The Literary Review of Canada and newsletters of The Society of Architectural Historians; photocopies of journal articles and of extracts from books; a catalogue of contemporary art; photocopies of clippings; correspondence; and tourist guides and pamphlets relating to Ontario (especially Windsor) and to parts of the U.S.A.

Dendy, William

Canada at home : the Canadian house and its furnishings, 1945-1967 : exhibition proposal by Dendy for the Royal Ontario Museum.

Contains untitled loose materials. This includes a copy of the proposal Dendy wrote for an exhibition on the Canadian Home and its Furnishings over the period 1945-1967. Other materials in this file include research materials which Dendy received from the archives of the University of British Columbia re work which he was carrying out in preparation for this proposed exhibition. These research materials take the form of copies of inventories of materials in the Melva Dwyer collection, the Binning Manuscript collection, and the collection of the Council of Forest Industries of B.C. at the archives of the University of British Columbia.

Dendy, William

Canada, small book, art, architecture, design, museum publications.

Includes booklets, folded flyers, and pamphlets primarily in the form of guides to museum and gallery exhibitions/collections in Canada.Additionally, includes a report by Heritage Canada on the profitability of heritage conservation. Other items include a tourist guide entitled "Hunter's Panoramic Guide from Niagara to Quebec" (originally published in 1857), a publication on the early history of the township of Erin, and a pamphlet re historical maps of Canada. Finally this file contains various publications on Canadian architecture.

Dendy, William

Canadian architecture : reading notes.

Includes research papers by Dendy and others re various architectural themes. One research paper by Stephen Otto relates to the architect F. J. Rastrick. Another photocopied draft ts. by Jim Lemon and Stephen Speisman is entitled "The Building of a Suburb" and relates to the history of Toronto architecture, while a second draft ts. (original) by Dendy is entitled "Temples of Commerce: From the First Canadian Bank to the Second World War". Both of these ts. drafts appear to constitute research conducted to constitute part of a book or books on architecture. Other items included in this file include ms. holograph notes and photocopies of articles relating to bank building, Frederick Rastrick, city planning in Toronto and other matters.

Dendy, William

Canadian architecture : research : articles.

Includes primarily photocopies of journal articles focusing on architecture in Canada especially home building, bank building, government buildings, and the architects, Frank Darling and John Howard.

Dendy, William

Canadian architecture : research : articles.

Includes photocopies of articles from architectural journals (dating from 1920's and 1930's) re Canadian architecture, especially to the themes of architecture of banks, home building and design, and government buildings. Additionally includes photocopies of journal articles and ms. notes relating to gallery and museum architecture. Other file contents include clippings re the architecture of historic buildings in B.C., Canada as well as re Toronto architecture. Other items include photocopies of an extract from a German language publication re Nero's "Golden House" as well as illustrations and drawings of buildings (unidentified).

Dendy, William

Canadian architecture : research : articles.

Includes photocopies of journal articles relating primarily to Canadian architecture especially to bank building, government buildings, building of war memorials, and home building and design. Additionally, includes some photocopies from books and magazines, as well as some photocopies of photographic materials.

Dendy, William

Canadian architecture : research : home building, Toronto buildings.

Includes Dendy's holograph notes and bibliographic references from Canadian Homes and Gardens (primarily issues from 1920's and 1930's) re home building in Canada. Additionally includes bibliographic references from The Globe (1870's - 1920's) re Toronto's architectural history. File also includes ts. listing of Toronto buildings accompanied by name(s) of architect(s), date of construction? etc. Also includes lists of buildings (mainly in Toronto) completed between 1909-1913 accompanied by an estimation of their value.

Dendy, William

Canadian Homes and Gardens.

Includes bibliographic references and holograph ms. notes re articles which appeared in Canadian Homes and Gardens in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Additionally, includes a few photocopies of articles from this journal.

Dendy, William

Canadian Homes and Gardens.

Includes ms. holograph notes and bibliographic references from issues of Canadian Homes and Gardens from the 1930's up to the 1950's. File dividers separate these materials into separate sections according to the topic to which they relate.

Dendy, William

Canadian Homes and Gardens, 1950-1956.

Contains untitled loose materials. This includes photocopies of journal articles from Canadian Homes and Gardens (1950-1956) re home design and interior decoration. Additionally, includes information sheets re the winning entries in the 1953 design awards of the National Industrial Design Committee.

Dendy, William

Canadian Homes and Gardens : home building.

Includes ms. holograph notes and bibliographic references from Canadian Homes and Gardens (primarily journal issues from 1940's and 1950's) re home building in Canada. File dividers are used to separate materials in this file into separate sections according to the theme to which they relate.

Dendy, William

Canadian Homes and Gardens : interior design.

Includes ms. holograph notes and bibliographic references from issues of Canadian Homes and Gardens from the 1940's and 1950's. These materials relate to the subject of interior design. The materials in this file are subdivided into sections according to the theme to which they relate.

Dendy, William

Canadian Homes and Gardens : interior design.

Includes ms. holograph notes and bibliographic references from Canadian Homes and Gardens re Canadian interior decoration and design. These materials are subdivided into separate sections according to the topic to which they relate.

Dendy, William

Clippings.

Contains loose untitled materials in the form of clippings re Canadian and U.S. architects including Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg, Donald McKay, and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. These clippings also focus on architectural developments in Toronto and elsewhere. Also includes a clipping (1990) re Africville, a black settlement in the Maritime provinces. Another clipping focuses on an exhibition of the art works of Wiitasalo and Daniels at the Art Gallery of York University in 1993.

Dendy, William

Concise History of Architecture in Canada : manuscripts.

Includes draft tss. (originals and photocopies) with holograph corrections of different sections written for a work intended for publication and entitled Concise History of Architecture in Canada. One draft ts. was originally stored in a ring binder and is marked as comprising chapters written by Dendy, as well as chapters on Quebec by other authors. The remaining draft tss. are loose leaf copies by Dendy.
Additionally includes two clippings re Ottawa's new National Gallery (1988).

Dendy, William

Country Life : articles.

Contains untitled loose materials including photocopied articles from Country Life dating back to the early twentieth century. These articles relate to home building and designs including motor houses, country homes, and cottages. Also includes an article focusing on Marshcourt, Hampshire, the residence of Mr. Herbert Johnson.
This file also contains some photocopies from books relating to Italian architecture including the Palazzo del Te and Jacopo Strada's Mantuan Drawings.

Dendy, William

Darling, Frank : research.

Correspondence, ms. holograph notes, draft tss. (original), some with holograph corrections, photocopies of journal articles, and clippings constituting the research materials of Dendy on Frank Darling.

Dendy, William

Diamond, A.J.

The materials contained in this file appear to primarily constitute research materials gathered by Dendy re the Toronto architect A. J. Diamond. As such this file includes photocopies of journal articles about A. J. Diamond, as well as a copy of a conference paper presented by A. J. Diamond entitled "Rehabilitation in Practice" This file also includes the company prospectus for the architectural firm, A. J. Diamond Associates. This includes details of the architectural and planning projects in which this firm has been involved, as well as information on the firm's personnel, awards, and publications. Additionally this file contains ms. holograph notes re Canadian homes.

Dendy, William

Diamond, A.J.

Includes photocopies of journal articles re the Toronto architecture firm A. J. Diamond Associates and its architects including A. J. Diamond himself and Kevin Garland. Also includes an article on A.J. Diamond and Barton Myers. This file also includes photocopies from W.S. Dinnick's book entitled Tremdous Toronto (2nd ed.). Finally, this file includes many photocopies of journal articles and extracts from books which relate primarily to the history of Toronto architecture.

Dendy, William

England and Scotland.

Includes booklets, pamphlets, folded flyers re historic buildings and sites in England and Scotland. Additionally includes guides to the collections of galleries and museums in Great Britain. Some postcards depicting the interiors and exteriors of historic buildings and sites in Great Britain are also contained in this file.

Dendy, William

English architecture.

Includes photocopied ts. reading lists issued by the Dept. of History of Art at the University of Cambridge in England. Also contains ms. holograph notes re English architecture, as well as photocopies from a book re Georgian and earliest Victorian architecture.

Dendy, William

Forest Hill research.

The majority of items in this file constitute Dendy's research materials on Forest Hill, Toronto. These materials include photographs, contact sheets (both originals and photocopies), photographic negatives, ts. notes re building file permit information on residences in Forest Hill, and photocopies of lists of electors in the Forest Hill area of Toronto. Photographs and a research report re the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute are contained in this file, in addtion to a report on the history of the Forest Hill Village.

Some materials in this file do, however, relate to other areas of Dendy's research and interests. These items include correspondence with the architects Page & Steele re research Dendy was conducting for a forthcoming book on Canadian Domestic Architecture. Other correspondence with Page & Steele relates to research which Dendy conducted on 74-76 York St. (W). Dendy's research on Frank Darling forms the subject of some other correspondence. Clippings re architectural developments in Toronto, photocopies of photographs from the Archives of Eaton's of Canada, as well as photocopies of journal articles relating to Canadian architecture are also contained in this file.

Dendy, William

Forest Hill research : building permit files : archive notes : Permit #2888 to Permit #3332.

Includes ms. holograph notes including details of Forest Hill Permit files (Permit #2888 - Permit #3332). Some photocopies of architectural drawings and plans are also contained in this file and the permit no. to which each one relates is indicated. Other materials contained in this file include some items of correspondence relating to the Forest Hill properties listed in this file.

Dendy, William

Forest Hill research : building permit files : Permit #3 to Permit #4887 with gaps.

Includes tss. (computer output) listing building permit file information for the Forest Hill area. This takes the form of a street-by-street listing. Ms. holograph notes containing building permit file information for Forest Hill (spanning the permits #3 to #4887 with some gaps) is also contained in this file.
Additionally, this file contains one ts. (computer output) with some holograph corrections which constitutes Dendy's research on the architectural history of Forest Hill. Ms. holograph notes on the subject of "The Home Between the Wars" are also contained in this file.

Dendy, William

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