style="font-size:15px;"> 10-SUITE APARTMENT, Fort Street, Victoria, B.C., 1954.
GLENWARREN LODGE, Balmoral Avenue, Victoria, B.C., a 63-bed private hospital 1962. (There were subsequent additions.) (Left) main floor plan.
B.Arch. 1923
1917 University of Toronto, completed first year in general arts. Enrolled at School of Architecture.
1919–1921 Interrupted studies after second year to teach in Rearville, Alberta. After two years, returned to university.
1923 B.Arch., University of Toronto.
1923–1927 Employed as an artist doing wash drawings and watercolour by Toronto art firm.
1925 Architectural commission – a fourplex – for her father, a Toronto builder.
1927 Employed by Workmen’s Compensation Board, Toronto, processing medical claims.
1958 Retired from Workmen’s Compensation Board.
1982 Jean Hall died at the age of eighty-six in Toronto.
Toward the end of First World War, an appeal was made to university students to volunteer as teachers in the Canadian Prairies. Jean Hall and her sister, a medical student, were among those who responded. Jean was sent to Rearville, east of Calgary. Because there was no accommodation for the new teacher, the residents built a sod house for her.
In the years following graduation, Jean Hall tried repeatedly to find work in an architectural office. By 1931, the effects of the Depression were widespread – her father’s construction firm was one of many forced to close. According to her sister, Jean was disappointed that she had been unable to have a career in architecture. For all that, she may still have been the first Canadian woman graduate in architecture to have seen a building of her design actually built.
U OF T ARCHITECTURAL CLUB, 1922, executive vice-president Jean Hall (centre).
FOURPLEX, 63 Jerome Street, Toronto, 1925; (left) floor plan of first floor.
JEAN HALL outside her sod house in Alberta, 1919–1921.
WAR MEMORIAL, student work, 1923.
B.Arch. 1927
1927 B.Arch., University of Toronto.
1927–1930 Worked in the office of William Lyon Somerville, Architect, Toronto: residential work.
1930 Married American architect Carrol Harding and moved to Weston, Massachusetts.
1941 Worked in the office of Page and Steele, Architects, Toronto, then returned to Boston, Massachusetts. Records are incomplete.
1958 Married George P. Carlton.
1961 Elizabeth Carlton died in Peterborough, New Hampshire, at the age of sixty-one.
In 1929, while working in Toronto, “Betty” Lalor spoke at the Art Gallery of Toronto on the development of a Canadian style in architecture. The same year, she worked independently on the conversion of a farmhouse to a summer residence on Lake Joseph in the Muskoka region of Ontario. The project was published in the July 1929 issue ofCanadian Homes and Gardens.
SMALL BREAKFAST DORMER in the sloping east roof features shelves shelves and cupboards to hold dishes and serving trays.
FARMHOUSE renovation plans.
DRAWINGS OF THE OLD FARMHOUSE “before” (opposite) and “after” (right). “The chief problems presented to the architect were to enlarge the living room to a size in keeping with summer hospitality, to provide greater verandah space and to create a more interesting exterior. The roofline was lowered, the small balcony moved to the side, the verandah now offers a more spacious welcome and the use of small-paned windows softened the general aspect of the house.” (Canadian Homes and Gardens, July 1929)
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