David Robertson Brown

Children's Memorial Hospital on Cedar Avenue, Montreal, pictured in 1913

David Robertson Brown (1869–1946) was a Canadian architect.

Born at Montreal, the son of James Brown and Elizabeth Robertson, he was educated at the High School of Montreal[1] and then studied architecture for four years in Montreal under A. F. Dunlop.[2] In 1890 he went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked for architectural firms, including Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, heirs to the practice of Henry Hobson Richardson,[3] before returning to Montreal in 1894 and forming the architectural firm of Brown, McVicar, and Heriot. From 1900 to 1905 he worked alone,[2] then formed a temporary working partnership with Percy Erskine Nobbs,[4] and finally in 1907 went into partnership with Hugh Vallance. Brown served as President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Quebec Association of Architects.[2]

In 1900 Brown married Harriet Fairbairn Robb, a daughter of William Robb, City Treasuer of Montreal. He was a member of the Canada Club and the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club.[1]

Notable buildings

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 'Brown, David Robertson', in The Canadian Who's Who (1929)
  2. 1 2 3 Marilyn Baker, Symbol in Stone: the Art and Politics of a Public Building, p. 35
  3. ↑ The architecture of Edward & W.S. Maxwell (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1991), pp. 24-25
  4. ↑ Rosalind M. Pepall, Construction d'un musée beaux-arts: Montréal, 1912 (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 1986), p. 39
  5. ↑ "Memorial gates: University of Saskatchewan: Memorial 47009-019 Saskatoon, SK". National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials. Veterans Affairs Canada. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
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