Davis, Huntly Ward, 1875-1952

Davis Huntly Ward was born on October 22, 1875, in Montreal, Quebec. He studied architecture in Boston at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he graduated in 1898. He returned to Montreal and articled in the office of Sir Andrew Thomas Taylor. There he met his future professional partner Morley Hogle. They created the firm Taylor, Hogle & Davis and they collaborated on the design of some McGill University buildings, including the Macdonald-Stewart (1893) and Macdonald-Harrington (1896-1897) pavilions.

In 1904, Taylor returned to England. They continued as a firm called Hogle and Davis. With his partner, he designed numerous bank buildings, including those for the Merchants' Bank in the provinces of Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec, as well as for the Bank of Montreal (1904) and the Bank of Toronto (1911) in Montreal. The two men also designed several Montreal bourgeois residences, such as the home of lawyer Charles Glass Greenshields.

In 1920, after the death of Hogle, Davis commenced practice in Montreal under his own name and he designed many townhouses, country homes, banks, and institutes of higher learning in the tradition of fine craftsmanship and classical proportion.

In 1910. he married Evelyn St. Clair Stanley Bagg. He died on October 12, 1952, in Ste. Marguerite, Quebec.