Industrial Architecture Montreal

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Photograph Brown, David Robertson(1869-1946)
Photo: Portrait which appeared in Construction 13:10 (Oct. 1920) 310.
Birthplace: Montreal, QC
Active Dates: 1898-1940
Education: Studied architecture at the High School of Montreal and in Boston.
Works in Database: Desbarats' Building (The Gazette)/Wheatley & Wilson Ltd.
Other Known Works: The Board of Trade (St-Sacrement)
The Montreal Amateur Athletics Association Building (Peel Street)
Masonic Temple (Dorchester Avenue)
Olivet Baptist Church
Taylor Presbyterian Church (rue Papineau)
Southam Building (rue Bleury)
Medical Building (Strathcona, McGill 1910-11)
Children's Memorial Hospital (1907-1920).
Notes: Brown began his career as a draughtsman and pupil in the office of A.F. Dunlop and later worked as a draughtsman for Hutchison and Steele. Brown also worked in Boston before returning to Montreal in 1895.
Sources:

Montreal, The Metropolis of Canada, Illustrated.Montréal: Consolidated Illustrating Co., 1894: 357. 
Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections. McGill University Library.

Gersovitz, Julia.  "Montreal Architects 1870-1914." Montréal: McGill University. School of Architecture, 1980: 35-36. 
Location: McGill University Library.
Note: Unpublished student paper.

Jackson, Kathryn.  Canadian Architecture Collection: A Guide to the Archives.Montréal: McGill University, 1993: 75. 
Location: McGill University Library.

Morgan, Henry James.  Canadian Men & Women of the Times.Toronto: William Briggs, 1912: 152. 
Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections. McGill University Library.

 

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