Noffke, Werner Ernest, 1878-1964, Ottawa III

• biography: Shannon Ricketts, "W.E. Noffke; an Ottawa Architect", Ottawa, 1990
• apprenticed to Ottawa architect Adam Harvey (1892-1896)
• worked for Moses C. Edey (1896-), Aberdeen Pavilion 1898, Daly Building
• night class student at Fine Arts Association of Ottawa
  - 1898-99 members included: architects M.C. Edey, J.W.H. Watts (CAB 11-11-199, 1898)
  - one of 8 accredited Ontario art schools, teaching drafting and planning
  - trained teachers and practitioners requiring artistic skill
  - Noffke won Ontario School of Art mechanical (1894) and architecture (1895) medals
• instructor at .Ottawa's first Technical School, teaching architectural drawing, 1899
• Noffke's offices in Central Chambers on Elgin Street
• 1905 Dairy Buiding at Lansdowne Park showed "that Noffke was also aware of general trend towards Beaux-Arts-inspired exhibition building design" (Ricketts p.40)
• Lansdowne Park grandstand 1909, ladies' washroom 1911, machinery hall 1912
• Ogilvy Store, Rideau and 1906-13 "pressed brick ... reflects the influence of the Beaux-Arts style"
• Hope Building
• Blackburn Building 1907-11, 1912, 1913
• Central Post Office
• One of Ottawa's most prolific architects, particularly residential.