Thomas Seaton Scott


Thomas Seaton Scott was an English-born Canadian architect. Born in Birkenhead, England he immigrated to Canada as a young man first settling in Montreal. He was hired by the Grand Trunk Railway and worked for them on a number of structures including the Union Station in Toronto and Bonaventure Station in Montreal.
In 1871 he was hired by the Department of Public Works and he designed a number of Ottawa's new government buildings in the years after Canadian Confederation. Among his works are the West Block of the Parliament of Canada, the Cartier Square Drill Hall, and the now demolished Dominion Post Office. From 1872 to 1881 he held the position of Chief Dominion Architect and thus played at least a supervisory role in all major government projects. He is considered one of the creators of the Dominion Style that dominated Canadian institutional architecture in the nineteenth century. He was a founding member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts He was succeeded as Chief Architect by Thomas Fuller.

Works


BuildingYear CompletedBuilderStyleLocationImage St Luke's ChurchNotes
Aurora Armoury1874Thomas Seaton ScottDominion Style Neo-Gothic style89 Mosley Street at Larmont Street, Aurora, OntarioStill in use by the military.
Mackenzie Tower, West Block1878Thomas Seaton ScottParliament Hill, Ottawa, OntarioProvided design in 1874
Second Supreme Court of Canada building1874Thomas Seaton ScottGothic Revival architectureDemolished 1955-56 and now parking lot
Cartier Square Drill Hall1879-80Thomas Seaton ScottDominion Style Neo-Gothic style2 Queen Elizabeth Driveway, Ottawa, OntarioStill in use.
Truro Armoury1874Thomas Seaton ScottDominion Style Neo-Gothic style126 Willow Street, Truro, Nova ScotiaStill in use.
St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church 1868Thomas Seaton ScottDominion Style Neo-Gothic style125 MacKay Street, Rideau-Rockcliffe Ottawa, OntarioStill in use.
Summer House/Summer Gazebo, Parliament Hill1877Thomas Seton ScottCarpenter GothicParliament Hill, Ottawa, OntarioBuilt for the Speaker of the House of Commons and demolished 1956. It was re-built in 1995 on the same location.
Toronto Union Station expansion1888Thomas Seaton Scott with Edward P. HannafordDominion Style Italianate /2nd Empire styleApproximately at 7 Station Street, Toronto, OntarioDemolished 1927-1931 and now site of Skywalk c. 1989
Grand Trunk Railway, Bonaventure Station1888Thomas Seaton Scott with Edward P. HannafordDominion Style Neo-Gothic styleNear corner of rue Peel and rue Saint-Jacques, on Chaboillez Square, Montreal, QuebecHeavily damaged by fire 1916, but remained standing until 1952. Now site of Dow Planetarium
Christ Church Cathedral Dominion Style Neo-Gothic styleThomas Seaton ScottGothic Revival635 rue Saint Catherine Street Ouest, Montreal, Quebec
St. Luke's Anglican Church, Waterloo QC1870Thomas Seaton ScottNeo-Gothic style400 rue de la Cour, Waterloo, Quebec


Other buildings designed by Scott include: