History
The original building on First Avenue at Bank Street was a wooden structure designed in 1898 by noted architect John William Hurrell Watts.
Even with several additions this structure proved too small and in the late 1920s a fundraising effort to build the new church was launched. Work on a new church on First Avenue at Bank Street costing some $350,000 began in 1929. The architect for the complex of three interconnected buildings clad in Indiana limestone -Church, Chapel and Parish Hall was Cecil Burgess (1929).
The work was only half-finished when the stock market collapsed in 1929 and the sources of funding dried up. The church was forced to go deeply into debt to complete the structure, a debt that was not paid off until 1962.
Read more about this topic: St. Matthew's Anglican Church (Ottawa)
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