Cullerne, Harold

CULLERNE, Harold (1890-1976) was born in Slaithwaite, Yorkshire, Engl. on 24 May 1890 and articled with E.G. Davies of Hereford from April 1906 to April 1909. He moved to London and worked in the offices of R.L. Coll and with W. Ernest Hazell while studying architecture and building construction at the Regent Street Polytechnical Inst. Cullerne then emigrated to Canada in April 1912 and settled in Vancouver where he found employment in the offices of H.S. Griffith, with Hugh A. Hodgson and with Joseph H. Bowman, with whom he was to later form a partnership. After serving with Canadian Forces during WWI he returned to Vancouver in July 1919 and resumed his career. The Vancouver City Directory for 1920 confirms that both Cullerne and J.H. Bowman shared the same offfice, Suite 716, at 525 Seymour Street, thus it may be presumed that they collaborated on projects from 1920 onward. In 1922, Cullerne entered into a formal partnership with J.H. Bowman and they collaborated for the next decade (see list of works under Bowman & Cullerne). After 1933 Cullerne practiced under his own name until his retirement in 1967. He died in North Burnaby on 8 March 1976 (death notice Province [Vancouver], 9 March 1976, 24; Vancouver Sun, 9 March 1976, 43; D. Luxton, Building The West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 438-9, 496; inf. Architectural Inst. of British Columbia). A photographic portrait of Cullerne was published in the Vancouver Sun, 12 Feb. 1938, 22.

HAROLD CULLERNE (works in Vancouver)

FAIRMONT ACADEMY, East 11th Avenue near Main Street, 1929 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
HIGHLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, [also called Free Church of Scotland], East 10th Avenue at Fraser Street, 1934; still standing in 2022 (Vancouver Sun, 6 Oct. 1934, 8; and 11 April 1936, 6)
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE, West Broadway near Balaclava Street, 1936; restored 2022 (Canadian Architect [Toronto], lxviii, April 2023, 20-22, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
B.C. RED CEDAR DEMONSTRATION HOME, for the Associated Forest Products Industries of British Columbia, a design prepared for the Dominion Housing Act competition, 1936 (Vancouver News-Herald, 29 Aug. 1936, 6, illus. & descrip.)
MORAVIAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH, East 58th Avenue near Fraser Street, 1936 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
GLENBURN DAIRY CO., East Hastings Street at Boundary Road, 1937 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH & FRIARY, Napier Street near Semlin Drive, c. 1938; still standing in 2023 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
WEST COAST WOOLEN MILLS, Clark Drive, 1941 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
EAST HASTINGS STREET, at Boundary Road, new bowling alleys for H. Royle, 1946 (Vancouver Sun, 11 Jan. 1946, 22)
HAINAULT APARTMENTS, Gilford Street at Robson Street, for P.W. Ayres, 1946; still standing in 2023 (Vancouver Sun, 15 Jan. 1946, 18)
DUNBAR HEIGHTS UNITED CHURCH, West 24th Avenue at Collingwood Street, 1946; still standing in 2023 (inf. United Church Archives, Toronto)
VANCOUVER CURLING CLUB, Dinmont Avenue, 1948 (dwgs. Vancouver City Archives)
CHANCELLOR BOULEVARD, residence for D.C.G. MacKay, 1951; demol. ( J. Bond, University Endowment Lands Architecture 1940-1969, 1993, 28, illus. & descrip.)

HAROLD CULLERNE (works elsewhere)

BURNABY, B.C., rebuilding of the annex to Kingsway West School after a fire, 1935 (News-Herald [Vancouver], 1 Aug. 1935, 1)
CHILLIWACK, B.C., Agricultural Building & Auditorium, at the Fairgrounds, 1935 (Chilliwack Progress, 1 Aug. 1935, 1)
MISSION CITY, B.C., Canadian Legion Auditorium, Lougheed Highway at Washington Street, 1936 (British Columbian [New Westminster], 13 Jan. 1936, 3, illus. & descrip.; Chilliwack Progress, 30 Jan. 1936, 8, illus. & descrip.)
MISSION CITY, B.C., major addition to Memorial Hospital, 1937 (Vancouver Sun, 22 Jan. 1937, 7)
SURREY, B.C., Lord Tweedsmuir Junior-Senior High School, 1940 (C.R., liii, 3 April 1940, 22; Surrey Leader [Cloverdale], 9 June 1937, 1, illus.; and 27 Nov. 1940, 3-4, illus. & descrip.)
SURREY, B.C., Queen Elizabeth Junior-Senior High School, King George VI Highway, 1940 (Surrey Leader [Cloverdale], 27 Nov. 1940, 3-4, illus. & descrip.)
MATSQUI VILLAGE, B.C., public school, 1941 (Chilliwack Progress, 11 June 1941, 6, t.c.)
(with E. Evans & Son) BURNABY, B.C., High School, 1942 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xix, May 1942, 124)
SOUTH WESTMINSTER, B.C., General Montgomery Public School, Scott Road, 1945 (Surrey Leader [Cloverdale], 26 April 1945, 1, descrip.)
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., apartment block for J.L. Carroll, Royal Avenue, 1945 (C.R., xviii, Nov. 1945, 114)
BURNABY, B.C., Capitol Hill Community Hall, Howard Avenue, 1944-46 (inf. Donald Luxton)
SURREY, B.C., North Surrey Junior-Senior High School, Townline Road, 1948 (C.R., lxi, Jan. 1948, 178; Surrey Record [Cloverdale], 29 Jan. 1948, 1, illus. & descrip.)
BURNABY, B.C., public school, 1948 (C.R., lxi, Feb. 1948, 167)
ABBOTSFORD, B.C., Canadian Legion Building, 1948 (Chilliwack Progress, 28 July 1948, 5)
CLOVERDALE, B.C., The Clover Inn Hotel, Pacific Highway at Melrose Street, 1948-49 (Surrey Leader [Cloverdale], 23 Oct. 1947, 1, illus. & descrip.; and 26 Aug. 1948, 1, descrip.; and 19 May 1949, p.1, illus., and p.3, descrip.)
SECHELT, B.C., school for District No. 46, 1949 (C.R., lxii, July 1949, 133)
(with G.N. Evans) BURNABY, B.C., Edmonds Junior High School, Edmonds Street, 1949 (Burnaby News-Courier, 27 Oct. 1949, 7, illus.)
GIBSONS, B.C., High School, 1950 (Coast News [Gibsons], 17 July 1950, 1 & 2)

COMPETITIONS

DOMINION HOUSING ACT, National Competition, 1938. Over 300 designs were sent in as part of national competition for a Minimum Cost House. Cullerne was one of ten prize winners who each received $250 for their effort. His design was illustrated and described in the Financial Post [Toronto], 19 Feb. 1938, 10, illus. and in the Vancouver Sun, 19 Feb. 1938, 22, illus. & descrip. Cullerne provided an extensive interview on his winning design, and on his approach to contemporary residential design, in the Vancouver Sun, 11 Feb. 1938, 6.