Russell continued to practise until after 1930. Gibb Morton, all of whom set a high standard for ecclesiastical design that other architects were to follow. However, his details and façade treatment often lacked the refinement and attention to scholarly detail evident in the church designs by Henry Langley, or Edmund Burke, or J.
His ecclesiastical works were invariably Gothic in style, with distinctive corner towers which made them a landmark in small Ontario towns such as Brussels, Owen Sound, Midland and New Hamburg. He had a wide-ranging practise and produced designs for at least four Carnegie Library buildings, and more than a dozen churches, and a dozen public and separate schools throughout South and Central Ontario. Their collaboration was a relatively brief one, and ended in 1906 when Russell returned to practising under his own name and he then maintained his own office for the next three decades. In 1901 He opened an office under his own name in Stratford, and in 1903 he was invited by Robert Thomas Orr to form a partnership there (see list of works under Orr & Russell). Powell, a successful architect in that city. in 1897 to take up the position as chief assistant to Harry J. A copy of this rare early Canadian pattern book is now held at the United Church Archives, Toronto.
His plans and perspective drawings for this model church were published in Designs for Village, Town & City Churches by the Committee on Church Architecture, 1893, pp. In 1893 he was one of eight architects selected by the Presbyterian Church of Canada to prepare plans for a prototype for a Small Town Church, to be built in various locations in Ontario. Gregg for four years, from 1889 to 1892 (Toronto City Directory, 1889, 1025). While in Toronto, he trained with the prominent architect William R. Born in Scotland on, he emigrated to Canada in 1888 and lived in Napanee, Toronto and in Pennsylvania. From his local office in Stratford, he obtained commissions in locations as far north as Parry Sound and Midland, eastward to Oshawa, south to Port McNichol, and throughout Perth County, Huron County, and Waterloo County.
RUSSELL, James Simpson (1870-1937), an important regional architect in southwestern Ontario from 1900 until after 1930.
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