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Series consists of research materials which relate to many different areas of Dendy's work in the field of architectural history. They include textual and graphic materials, as well as electronic information in the form of computer files stored on 3.5" floppy disks.

This includes the research materials acquired by Dendy during his studies at Cambridge University, England and probably at Columbia University in New York. These take the form of course handouts, ms. holograph notes, and photocopies of journal articles. A large number of the ms. holograph notes relate to the history of home building and residential architecture in Canada (this formed the subject of the thesis which Dendy wrote either for one of the Masters degree he received in Architectural History and/or for the PhD in Architectural History on which he was working).

Also included is material relating to topics studied by Dendy either at university or in his professional career. These research topics include: the architects Frank Darling, John Howard, and Oliver Hill; the architectural history of the city of Hamilton, Ont.; "The Smaller Houses of the American Suburbs", "The Houses of Indian Road", and "A Comparision of 504 Jarvis St. and 135 St. George St." (last three topics constitute research papers written by Dendy).

Other research materials contained in this file were gathered in the process of researching for Lost Toronto and for Toronto Observed. These research materials primarily take the form of planning information sheets, ms. lists of Toronto buildings/architects, tender information from the Toronto Globe (issues from the late 19th century), ms. holograph notes re Toronto building permit files, and some photographic materials. Some reviews of Lost Toronto can also be found in this series.

Other research materials relate to Dendy's extensive research on the residential area of Forest Hill and take the form of ms. holograph notes on Forest Hill building permit files. Photocopies of journal articles, ms. holograph notes and other materials, which appear to have been gathered and/or prepared for a proposed publication on the history of Canadian architecture, are also contained in this series.

Ms. research notes used by Dendy in preparation for Toronto walking tours led by him are also contained in this series, in addition to research materials used by him for projects he worked on in his capacity as consultant architectural historian to various architectural firms and government bodies.

Other files include information relating to projects Dendy worked on as architectural historian to the Property Restoration Branch of the Ontario Heritage Foundation from 1987-1989, and to work which he carried out for Tom Schwartz, President of Intraurban Projects, as well as to a study conducted by Dendy on CNR Railway Stations for the Architectural History Branch, Canadian Historic Sites Directorate of the Canadian Parks Service in 1991.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Includes 15 p. ts. (computer output) with some ms. additions. This is the text of a paper presented by Dendy entitled "The Background of Modernism in Toronto".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Includes ms. holograph notes and bibliographic references from issues of Canadian Homes and Gardens from the 1940's and 1950's. File dividers separate these materials in to separate sections according to the topic to which they relate.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

File consists of a 1979 ts. essay or thesis (152 l., originals; ca. 100 leaves with pasted on photocopies of plates, hol. corrections and annotations) by Dendy entitled "Frank Darling, 1850-1923: Canadian architect. This essay has been submitted and graded.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Includes ms. holograph notes re details of Forest Hill Permit files (Permit #3333 - Permit #3469). Additionally includes correspondence and architectural plans and drawings relevant to the Forest Hill permit files listed here.

Includes ms. holograph notes re details of Forest Hill Permit files (Permit #1 - Permit #1136).

Includes ms. holograph notes re details of Forest Hill Permit files (Permit #1137 - Permit #1916). Additionally includes clipping (photocopy), photocopies of architectural plans, photocopies of photographs, correspondence and other documentation relating to the Forest Hill properties listed in this file.

Includes ms. holograph notes re details of Forest Hill Permit files. Additionally includes correspondence, architectural plans and drawings, and other documentation relevant to the Forest Hill permit files listed here.

Includes ms. holograph notes re details of Forest Hill Permit files. Additionally includes correspondence, architectural plans and drawings, and other documentation relevant to the Forest Hill permit files listed here.

Includes ms. holograph notes re details of Forest Hill Permit files. Additionally includes correspondence, architectural plans and drawings, and other documentation relevant to the Forest Hill permit files listed here.

Contains untitled loose materials. This includes a photocopy of a document entitled "Inventory of Household Furniture, Furnishings, and Art Objects Belonging to the Estate of the Late Honourable G.T. Fulford Contained in Fulford Place, Brockville". The original document dates from Dec. 11, 1911. This file also includes photographs of the exterior and interior of Fulford Place.

Includes guide books, history and architectural history books, pamphlets and flyers re historic buildings, sites, and regions in Great Britain. Also includes guides to art or architectural collections or exhibitions. Additionally includes a status report which relates to historic site preservation in the Carribbean (1978).

Includes ms. holograph research notes on Hamilton's architecture. Additionally contains photocopies of photographs of many buildings in Hamilton from Public Archives Canada, as well as photocopies of the index cards for these photographs. Photocopies from the book Up and Down Hamilton by T. M. Bailey and C.A. Carter are also included in this file. File dividers are used to divide these materials in to separate sections according to the topic to which they relate. Many of the notes are taken from the Hamilton Times and the Hamilton Weekly Spectator and relate to tender calls in the 1840s, 1850s,1860s, and 1870s.

Includes ms. holograph notes, one original ts. with some holograph additions, and photocopies of journal articles. These materials constitute Dendy's research materials on the architect, Oliver Hill.

Includes untitled loose materials in the form of photocopies of that section of the catalogue of the Riba Drawings Collection which relates to the works of the architect Oliver Hill.

Includes serial publications (from 1960's and 1970's) re suburban housing design and vacation home designs. Additionally includes a section from The Toronto Star , 25 March 1989, entitled "New in Homes", as well as a publication of the Canadian Housing Information Centre (1991) listing the external research program reports published by this centre.

Includes tss. (computer output) in the form of research papers (final draft? and rough draft with holograph corrections) by Dendy entitled "The Houses of Indian Road". Additionally includes ms. holograph research notes prepared for this paper.

Photocopied ts. research paper on William Thomas by Neil Einarson with ms. corrections. Additionally, includes information (in the form of photocopied ts. research notes and a research paper) on other architects including F. J. Rastrick, George Browne, and John Tully. Title is misleading : no information on Howard.

105 p. photocopied ts. [by Dendy?] entitled "The Life of John George Howard" which consists of a chronological account. Also includes holograph ms. notes and bibliographic references re the architect, John George Howard.

Includes ms. holograph notes and bibliographic references from The Globe (from 1870's) and from Canadian Homes and Gardens (issues from the 1920's and 1930's). Additionally contains photocopies of journal articles re interior design in Canada.