Biography from the "Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada 1800 - 1950"
Arthur Ernest Anderson was active in Montreal primarily as a head draftsman and contract supervisor for commissions in various architectural offices there. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick on 21 December 1868, he was educated at public schools there and in 1885 went to Boston, MA where he secured a position with the prominent firm of Winslow & Wetherell. He remained with this firm for ten years while taking part time courses in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then joined the office of the City Architect Edmund M. Wheelwright, an authority on school architecture who may have offered him advice when Anderson submitted his unsuccessful entry in the competition for the Saint John High School in 1896 (C.R., vii, 23 April 1896, 2). Upon the retirement of Wheelwright in 1897 Anderson was appointed as head draftsman in the bureau of architecture for the City of Boston and designed several city buildings including the South Boston Baths and the South Boston Gymnasium, and supervised the restoration of historic Faneuil Hall. In 1902 he joined the architectural offices of the U.S. Government in Washington and was posted to Manila, The Philippines where he undertook the design of the elaborate Philippine Pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. In 1905 he accepted a position with E. & W.S. Maxwell in Montreal and assisted that office with work on their winning design for the Legislative Buildings in Regina, Sask., and with the Palliser Hotel in Calgary. From 1914 onward he was said to have led 'a rather itinerant existence' in Montreal, and collaborated with John S. Archibald on the design of a major addition to the VERDUN PROTESTANT HOSPITAL, Lasalle Boulevard, Verdun, 1931-32 (C.R., xlv, 14 Jan. 1931, 53-54). Anderson was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1926, and died in Montreal on 7 April 1933 (obituary in the Gazette [Montreal] 8 April 1933, 2; R.A.I.C. Journal, x, May 1933, 102; biography in H. Morgan, Canadian Men and Women of the Time, 1912, 23; Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, i, 39)
Arthur Ernest Anderson was active in Montreal primarily as a head draftsman and contract supervisor for commissions in various architectural offices there. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick on 21 December 1868, he was educated at public schools there and in 1885 went to Boston, MA where he secured a position with the prominent firm of Winslow & Wetherell. He remained with this firm for ten years while taking part time courses in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then joined the office of the City Architect Edmund M. Wheelwright, an authority on school architecture who may have offered him advice when Anderson submitted his unsuccessful entry in the competition for the Saint John High School in 1896 (C.R., vii, 23 April 1896, 2). Upon the retirement of Wheelwright in 1897 Anderson was appointed as head draftsman in the bureau of architecture for the City of Boston and designed several city buildings including the South Boston Baths and the South Boston Gymnasium, and supervised the restoration of historic Faneuil Hall. In 1902 he joined the architectural offices of the U.S. Government in Washington and was posted to Manila, The Philippines where he undertook the design of the elaborate Philippine Pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. In 1905 he accepted a position with E. & W.S. Maxwell in Montreal and assisted that office with work on their winning design for the Legislative Buildings in Regina, Sask., and with the Palliser Hotel in Calgary. From 1914 onward he was said to have led 'a rather itinerant existence' in Montreal, and collaborated with John S. Archibald on the design of a major addition to the VERDUN PROTESTANT HOSPITAL, Lasalle Boulevard, Verdun, 1931-32 (C.R., xlv, 14 Jan. 1931, 53-54). Anderson was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1926, and died in Montreal on 7 April 1933 (obituary in the Gazette [Montreal] 8 April 1933, 2; R.A.I.C. Journal, x, May 1933, 102; biography in H. Morgan, Canadian Men and Women of the Time, 1912, 23; Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, i, 39)
Biography from the "Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada 1800 - 1950"
Arthur Ernest Anderson was active in Montreal primarily as a head draftsman and contract supervisor for commissions in various architectural offices there. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick on 21 December 1868, he was educated at public schools there and in 1885 went to Boston, MA where he secured a position with the prominent firm of Winslow & Wetherell. He remained with this firm for ten years while taking part time courses in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then joined the office of the City Architect Edmund M. Wheelwright, an authority on school architecture who may have offered him advice when Anderson submitted his unsuccessful entry in the competition for the Saint John High School in 1896 (C.R., vii, 23 April 1896, 2). Upon the retirement of Wheelwright in 1897 Anderson was appointed as head draftsman in the bureau of architecture for the City of Boston and designed several city buildings including the South Boston Baths and the South Boston Gymnasium, and supervised the restoration of historic Faneuil Hall. In 1902 he joined the architectural offices of the U.S. Government in Washington and was posted to Manila, The Philippines where he undertook the design of the elaborate Philippine Pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. In 1905 he accepted a position with E. & W.S. Maxwell in Montreal and assisted that office with work on their winning design for the Legislative Buildings in Regina, Sask., and with the Palliser Hotel in Calgary. From 1914 onward he was said to have led 'a rather itinerant existence' in Montreal, and collaborated with John S. Archibald on the design of a major addition to the VERDUN PROTESTANT HOSPITAL, Lasalle Boulevard, Verdun, 1931-32 (C.R., xlv, 14 Jan. 1931, 53-54). Anderson was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1926, and died in Montreal on 7 April 1933 (obituary in the Gazette [Montreal] 8 April 1933, 2; R.A.I.C. Journal, x, May 1933, 102; biography in H. Morgan, Canadian Men and Women of the Time, 1912, 23; Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, i, 39)
Arthur Ernest Anderson was active in Montreal primarily as a head draftsman and contract supervisor for commissions in various architectural offices there. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick on 21 December 1868, he was educated at public schools there and in 1885 went to Boston, MA where he secured a position with the prominent firm of Winslow & Wetherell. He remained with this firm for ten years while taking part time courses in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then joined the office of the City Architect Edmund M. Wheelwright, an authority on school architecture who may have offered him advice when Anderson submitted his unsuccessful entry in the competition for the Saint John High School in 1896 (C.R., vii, 23 April 1896, 2). Upon the retirement of Wheelwright in 1897 Anderson was appointed as head draftsman in the bureau of architecture for the City of Boston and designed several city buildings including the South Boston Baths and the South Boston Gymnasium, and supervised the restoration of historic Faneuil Hall. In 1902 he joined the architectural offices of the U.S. Government in Washington and was posted to Manila, The Philippines where he undertook the design of the elaborate Philippine Pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. In 1905 he accepted a position with E. & W.S. Maxwell in Montreal and assisted that office with work on their winning design for the Legislative Buildings in Regina, Sask., and with the Palliser Hotel in Calgary. From 1914 onward he was said to have led 'a rather itinerant existence' in Montreal, and collaborated with John S. Archibald on the design of a major addition to the VERDUN PROTESTANT HOSPITAL, Lasalle Boulevard, Verdun, 1931-32 (C.R., xlv, 14 Jan. 1931, 53-54). Anderson was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1926, and died in Montreal on 7 April 1933 (obituary in the Gazette [Montreal] 8 April 1933, 2; R.A.I.C. Journal, x, May 1933, 102; biography in H. Morgan, Canadian Men and Women of the Time, 1912, 23; Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, i, 39)
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