Colwill and Calvert Collection.
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W. Frye Colwill was the architect of many buildings and residences in Guelph including Torrance Public School (St. James Ward School), the city's Carnegie Library, renovations to the Trader's Bank, and also designed the ornamental exterior parts of the Galt Carnegie Library. He gave up architecture in his late 40's to become an innkeeper on Bala Park Island in the Muskokas. He died in 1928. Fanny Colwill Calvert was a very active businesswoman in Guelph around the turn of the century. She also was a stonecarver, and has carved some of the fanciwork on Guelph and Galt buildings, including the Ionic capitals atop the columns at the front entrance of the Galt Carnegie Library.
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