Thomas Fuller (architect)

Thomas Fuller (architect)

Thomas Fuller (March 8, 1823 – September 28, 1898) was a Canadian architect.

He was born in Bath, England where he trained as an architect. Living in Bath and London he did a number of projects. In 1845 he left for Antigua, where he spent two years working on a new cathedral before emigrating to Canada in 1857. Settling in Toronto, Ontario he formed a partnership with Chilion Jones with Fuller responsible for design work. The company first won the contract to design the church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields.

In 1859, The Legislative Assembly in Ottawa voted the sum of £75,000 for the erection of a "Parliament House" and offered a premium of $1000 for the best design within that budget. The winning bid was made by Fuller and Jones for a neo-gothic design. In "Hand Book to the Parliamentary and Departmental Buildings, Canada" (1867), Joseph Bureau wrotes, "The corner stone was laid with great ceremony by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in September, 1860, on which occasion the rejoicings partook of the nature of the place, the lumber arches and men being a novelty to most of its visitors, bullocks and sheep were roasted whole upon the government ground and all comers were feasted."

In 1867 he won the contract to build the New York State Capitol building in Albany, New York, and spent the next several years in the United States. The project ran into severe cost overruns, and an inquiry blamed Fuller. Fuller thus returned to Canada, and unable to work in the more lucrative private sector, in 1881 became Chief Dominion Architect, replacing Thomas Seaton Scott. In this capacity, which he held until 1896, he played a role in the design and construction of every major federal building.

On his death in 1898, Thomas Fuller was interred in the Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa.

His son Thomas Fuller II also became a prominent Canadian architect.

Several of his buildings in Bath have been threatened with demolition and other impressive works, such as his Bradford-on-Avon Town Hall, have been converted into other uses (the Town Hall is now the R.C. Church of St Thomas More).

In 2002, Thomas Fuller Construction Company, operated by Fuller's great-grandsons, was awarded a contract to renovate the Library of Parliament in Ottawa which he originally designed [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=1384905&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=37&Ses=1#Int-118576] .

References

* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/structures/parliament/ Canada by Design: Parliament Hill, Ottawa] at Library and Archives Canada

External links

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=6110 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.saintstephens.ca/history/fuller/fuller.html Thomas Fuller biography from St. Stephen-in-the-Fields]


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