John Wells (architect)

John Wells (1789–1864), was an English-born architect who had his works displayed at the Royal Academy in the 1820s.

Ann's Market (1832), that stood until the Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal.

In 1834, he was commissioned by John Redpath and Peter McGill to design and build a new home for St. Paul's Presbyterian Church.

He completed several religious buildings for all denominations, including Chalmers-Wesley United Church, and his personal popularity won him private commissions for some of Montreal's leading figures within the Golden Square Mile - such as the Notman House (1845) and Prince of Wales Terrace, completed in 1860 for Sir George Simpson.

[2] His biography in The Canadian Encyclopedia, states that "due to the disappearance of a majority of his works, he has been overlooked as the arbiter of architectural taste in early Victorian Montreal".