Theatre Architects

Born: 1865 (Wakefield, Quebec)

Died: 1951 (Ottawa, Ontario)

Architect John Pritchard MacLaren was part of a wealthy family active in lumbering, paper-making, hydro-generation, and real estate. He produced a steady stream of capably handled but not ground-breaking buildings in a variety of styles. In a career of forty years he designed numerous churches, several banks, some interesting houses, two library branches, a movie theatre, a private school for girls, auto garages, showrooms, and a warehouse.

Born in 1865 to Alexander MacLaren and Ann Pritchard in Wakefield, Quebec, he practiced briefly in Brantford, Ontario before moving to Buckingham, Quebec, the location of MacLaren-owned paper mill where he lived for a few years before taking up permanent residence in Ottawa in December 1898, opening a practice under his own name.

Retiring in 1945, J.P. MacLaren passed away on May 10, 1951.

For further details and works, see the J.P. MacLaren entry in the Biographic Dictionary of Architects in Canada .

Information in part sourced from Urbsite .

Theatres on this website in which this architect was involved:

Mayfair Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada