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Architects_Panels HENRY BOWYER LANE & WILLIAM STORM: 1840s-50s ARCHITECTS AND THEIR PATRONS By the 1840s Cobourg's citizens had enough wealth to employ architects to design some special buildings. The town turned out to be a good place for young architects (they were all men then) to start out before making their name in Toronto. Networking mattered in the 1840s as it does today. Henry Bowyer Lane, all of 24 years old in 1841, had family connections to the influential Boulton family. That won him two commissions: first for St. Peter's Parochial School in 1841, then for the façade and tower of St. Peter's Church. Another young architect was William Storm. He had been a pupil at Upper Canada Academy (now Victoria Retirement Residence), and was from a strong Methodist family. He was just 25 years of age when he designed the Wesleyan Methodist Church (now Trinity United). Storm's successful career in Toronto was capped by becoming first President of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1889. He designed over eighty buildings in Ontario. Now a private house, 174 Green St was originally a one-storey college designed by Lane, built for the important Anglican Diocese in Cobourg. William G. Storm, 1871 portrait taken after his move to Toronto. McCord Museum, N-1-66066.1