Boyum, Benjamin O.

BOYUM, Benjamin O. (1884-1954) was active in Weyburn, Sask. where he designed a large department store for McKinnon & Co., WEYBURN, SASK., 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 10 Jan. 1912, 65). The following year he completed a Beaux-Arts design for the Town Hall at WEYBURN, SASK. (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 5 April 1913, 12, descrip.).
Boyum was a native of Minnesota, and was born in Arendahl Township, Minn. on 19 September 1884. He trained in the office of Long & Long Architects in Minneapolis (in 1907-09), and worked as a design engineer with that firm, later renamed Long, Lamoreaux & Long, in 1909-10. During this period, he studied civil engineering at the University of Minnesota in 1910. For unknown reasons, he moved to Weyburn, Sask. in 1910 and worked as an architect and civil engineer there until late 1914. Boyum then moved back to the United States, and pursued his career as an architect in Peterson, Minn. from 1915 to 1928. He then opened an office in nearby Winona where he was a founding member of the firm of Boyum, Schubert & Sorenson, Architects, with dual offices in Winona, Minn. and across the state border in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Boyum died at Winona on 12 March 1954 (obituary, with list of works and port, in Winona Republican Herald, 13 March 1954, 9)