George Allen Ross

George Allen Ross (1879–1946) was a Canadian architect, for many years senior partner in the important Montreal firm of Ross and Macdonald.

Life

Born in Montreal, Ross was educated at the High School of Montreal, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[1]

After returning from Paris, Ross was apprenticed to Brown, MacVicar, & Heriot in Montreal and later become a draftsman for the Grand Trunk Railway. He also worked for Parker & Thomas in Boston and Carrere & Hastings in New York City, then in 1907 went into partnership in Montreal with David MacFarlane as Ross and MacFarlane. When MacFarlane withdrew from the firm in 1912, Ross established a new partnership with Robert Henry Macdonald called Ross and Macdonald.[2]

Honours

Notable buildings

See Ross and Macdonald

Notes
  1. Antonia Brodie, ed., Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914: Vol. 2 (L-Z) (A. & C. Black, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001), p. 504
  2. David Rose, Geoffrey Simmons, Ross & Macdonald in The Canadian Encyclopedia online (December 2013), accessed 7 January 2018
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