Trimen, Leonard Buttress

TRIMEN, Leonard Buttress, architect (b 1846, London, England; d 11 Oct 1891, Victoria). He arrived in BC from England in the early 1880s, and during a brief architectural career in VICTORIA he designed many of the capital city's most prestigious residences. The most significant feature of his practice was the introduction and popularization of the Gothic Vernacular Revival style, later picked up and developed by Samuel MACLURE, Francis RATTENBURY and Percy JAMES, who made it the dominant...

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