Bertrand & Chamberlin

BERTRAND & CHAMBERLIN, of Minneapolis, Minn. applied for membership in the Saskatchewan Association of Architects in December 1912 and opened an office in Moose Jaw in early 1913 (Const., vi, Feb. 1913, 70). Their works in that city included designs for the Citizen's Hotel, 1913, for several industrial buildings for the Moose Jaw Engineering Works Ltd., 1913, and for Metal Securities Ltd., 1913. In 1914 they prepared an ambitious Beaux-Arts design for a sixteen storey commercial block housing the Winnipeg Athletic Club, WINNIPEG, MAN. (Minneapolis Journal, 3 May 1914, Section Nine, 10, illus.) but WWI intervened and the proposed tower, to cost $750,000, was never realised.
George E. Bertrand (1859-1931) formed a partnership with Arthur Bishop Chamberlin (1865-1933) in Minneapolis in 1896 and maintained a successful practice in the mid-west for more than thirty years. Chamberlin had obtained much of his training in Minneapolis in 1884-89, then moved to Seattle, Wash. where his talent as a skilled delineator was offered to several architectural firms between 1890 and 1895. In 1896 he returned to Minneapolis and was active there until his death on 28 September 1933 (biog. of A.B. Chamberlin in J.K. Ochsner, Shaping Seattle Architecture, 2014, 427; J.K. Ochsner & D.A. Andersen, Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H.H. Richardson, 2003, 284-6, 323-4, illus.; inf. Sask. Assoc. of Architects; inf. Scott Brown, Minneapolis).