Arthur W. Holmes

Arthur William Holmes (1863-1944) was an architect who designed numerous buildings, particularly churches, in Toronto and other places in Ontario during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

[1] He was born in London, England, and before he left for Canada in 1885, he trained under the supervision of George Edmund Street.

From 1910 to 1913, he worked on St. Augustine's Seminary in Scarborough, Ontario, which show the influence of the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence.

From 1926 to 1927 he worked on St. Thomas Aquinas Church, next to the Newman Centre on the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto.

Later, he used the Gothic Revival architecture style more often, such as the Teefy and Brennan Halls of St. Michael's College, Toronto which was built in 1936.