David Roberts Senior & David Roberts Junior

Between 1858 and 1895, David Roberts Sr. and his son David Roberts Jr. designed and oversaw the construction of all the 19th-century buildings remaining at the Distillery. David Roberts Sr. (1810-1881) was a civil engineer, millwright, and designer of stationary steam engines who is said to have erected over 30 mills in Ireland and England before emigrating to Canada in 1844. The Stone Distillery and much of the milling and distilling machinery were built to his designs in 1858-60, and later in the 1860s he designed the Malt House, Kiln Building, Rectifying House, and Cooperage. David Roberts Jr. (1845-1907), thought to have apprenticed with Gundry and Langley in Toronto, oversaw the reconstruction of the Stone Distillery after it burned in 1869. He later designed over a dozen buildings on the site, including the Pure Spirits Buildings, and elsewhere in the city served as architect for important Gooderham family landmarks, including George Gooderham's house at Bloor and St. George Streets in 1891 and the Flatiron Building at Front and Wellington Streets in 1892.

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