Frank Darling (February 17, 1850 – May 19, 1923) was a Canadian architect and key player in buildings built in Toronto during the early 20th century and promoter of the Beaux-Arts style.
Darling, a graduate of Trinity College, Toronto, studied and trained in England 1870-1873, then returned to Canada. Apart from two brief solo periods in the 1870s he practiced with a string of collaborators:
Then in 1897 Darling formed the lasting partnership, Pe...
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Frank Darling (February 17, 1850 – May 19, 1923) was a Canadian architect and key player in buildings built in Toronto during the early 20th century and promoter of the Beaux-Arts style.
Darling, a graduate of Trinity College, Toronto, studied and trained in England 1870-1873, then returned to Canada. Apart from two brief solo periods in the 1870s he practiced with a string of collaborators:
Then in 1897 Darling formed the lasting partnership, Pearson and Darling, which lasted beyond Darling's death in 1923. These firms shaped commercial development in Toronto during the 1910s to 1920s.
Darling was the first Honorary President of the Toronto Beaux-Arts Club, member of the Holt Commission for planning of Ottawa (1913-1915), and was the first Canadian to win the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal in 1915.
Darling died in 1923 and was buried at St John's (Norway) Cemetery in Toronto.
For projects after the formation of Darling, Curry, Sproatt, & Pearson in 1892, see Pearson...
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