W.E. Noffke House
20 Clemow Avenue
Written by Bytown Museum
on
03/Dec/2009
Werner Earnest Noffke was one of Ottawa's most prolific and influential architects. To name but a few of his buildings, he designed Postal Station B, the Champagne Bath, the Ottawa South Fire Station (now a community centre), the Department of Mines Complex on Booth Street and many homes in the Glebe in the 1910s and 1920s (including six on Clemow Avenue alone).
One of Noffke's last and best-known works was the Embassy of the then-U.S.S.R., designed to strict specifications set out by the Soviets in the 1950s.
W.E. Noffke emigrated to Canada from Germany as a young child in the early 1880s. By 1896, he was working in the office of architect M.C. Edey, designer of the Aberdeen Pavilion. Noffke continued working into his 80s; he died in 1964 at the age of 86.
Did you know that Noffke was involved in the design of close to 200 buildings located throughout the national capital region?
Neighbourhood
Like the rest of Ottawa, the area that would become known as the Glebe was originally a hunting territory for Anishnabe (Algonquin) tribes, principally the Odawa, whose name is commemorated ... read more
