
peoplepill id: f-h-herbert
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Canadian architect
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Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Place of death
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Age
49 years
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Frederick Henry Herbert was an important and successful architect practicing in Toronto, Ontario, in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Several buildings he designed survived into the 21st century and have been registeredas significant heritage properties.He was one of the city's best-known practitioners specializing in residential architecture at the close of the 19th century.
Herbert moved to Toronto in 1887.According to the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, "He was born in Bath, England, but no information can be found on his early education or training there."
Herbert designed close to 150 buildings over the course of his career.
Selected buildings Herbert designed
- Arena Gardens was an 8,000 seat indoor arena, the largest in Canada, built in 1912 at a cost of $500,000.
- No.99 Jarvis Street, another building Herbert designed, is being marketed as a "development opportunity".
- No.6 Walmer Road was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 2012.
- No.2 Temperance Avenue was rebuilt in 2012.
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