BRENAN, Herbert Stanley (1879-1959) active in Saint John, N.B., was born there and trained in the office of R.C. John Dunn (in 1898-1902). He joined F. Neil Brodie in 1904 and for the next twenty-five years worked as his chief assistant, learning much about the design of school buildings erected throughout the Maritimes. When Brodie died in 1926 Brenan was the logical successor to the practice which he continued to operate until after 1950. He executed several commissions for the Saint John School Board, and for them designed his most important work, the Saint John High School, a creditable interpretation of the neo-Georgian style. Brenan retired in 1958 and died in Saint John on 25 Aug. 1959 (obit. Evening Times-Globe [Saint John], 26 Aug. 1959, 17 & 23; biog. New Brunswick Blue Book and Encyclopedia, 1932, 44)
SAINT JOHN
NEW ALBERT SCHOOL, Duke Street at Watson Street, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 6 Feb. 1929, 51, t.c.; dwgs. Saint John Board of Education)
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST, Germain Street at Queen Street, 1930 (Const., xxiii, March 1930, 80)
SAINT JOHN HIGH SCHOOL, Prince William Street at Duke Street, 1931-32 (C.R., xiv, 12 Aug. 1931, 57; R.A.I.C. Journal, xi, June 1934, 96, illus.; J. Leroux, Building New Brunswick-An Architectural History, 2008, 157, illus.; dwgs. Saint John Board of Education)
KING STREET EAST, apartment block for Stephen Whitehead, 1937 (C.R., l, 10 Feb. 1937, 37)
ROCKWOOD COURT, a public housing project, 1945 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxii, Jan. 1945, 16-17, illus. & descrip.)
SAINT JOHN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL, Douglas Avenue, major addition, 1948 (C.R., lxi, March 1948, 172, t.c.)
LANCASTER MILITARY HOSPITAL, major addition and alterations, 1949 (C.R., lxii, April 1949, 155)
ELSEWHERE
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I., Capitol Theatre, Great George Street at Grafton Street, 1927 (Canadian Moving Picture Digest, xviii, 12 Feb. 1927, 15)
MONCTON, N.B., Prince Edward Public School, West Street at Lime Street, 1927 (C.R., xli, 7 Sept. 1927, 50)
TRURO, N.S., theatre for F.G. Spencer, 1932 (C.R., xlvi, 23 March 1932, 51, t.c.)
FUNDY NATIONAL PARK, Albert County, N.B., Administration Building, public Bath House and Pool, Superintendent's Residence, and Park Warden's Residence, 1948 (C.R., lxi, June 1948, 164)