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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

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

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