About Us

Jess is a PhD candidate in Art and Architectural History at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her dissertation focuses on Gothic Revival houses in Canada West (Southern Ontario) but she also specializes in all 19th-century Canadian architecture, Gothic Revival architecture as well as modern architecture in Europe and North America from 1750-1950.  Jess' research is supported by a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship.  She holds an M.A. in Art History from York University and a B.A.H. in Art History from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. She sails, drinks wine and blogs about Canadian architecture in her spare time.

Candace is a PhD candidate in Humanities at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Her dissertation focuses on the prolific 19th-century church architect Henry Langley (1836-1907).  She also specializes in Canadian architecture and culture, Medieval and Gothic Revival architecture, and religious architecture and history. Candace has worked as an architectural historian for the Ontario Heritage Trust, and is currently the News & Views Editor for the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada. She holds an M.A. in Art History from York University and a B.A.H. in Fine Arts and Art History from the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. In her spare time she scuba dives, swims, and snoops through old buildings!

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