BRODIE, Frederick Neil (1871-1926) was a leading architect in New Brunswick during the first decades of the 20th C. Born in Fredericton on 1 September 1871 he attended Saint John Grammar School and moved to Boston to continue his education and training. Upon his return to Saint John he worked for several prominent architects including G. Ernest Fairweather, for R.C. John Dunn, and for Harry H. Mott. In January 1901 he opened his own office in Saint John and within a decade had built up a wide-ranging practice with his designs for commercial, institutional, residential and industrial works. His monumental Beaux-Arts designs for school buildings were erected in several cities and towns, and he was noted for '..his reputation as a reliable, thoroughly versed and competent architect whose influence extended beyond the bounds of the province'. His impressive schemes for large residences along Douglas Avenue, which served as the location for the homes of some of Saint John's wealthiest citizens, were invariably executed in a Queen Anne style. By the 1920's he had adopted a more varied and eclectic mixture of styles for his institutional commissions. Declining health forced Brodie to retire in November 1925 and to turn over much of his practice to H.S. Brenan, one of the employees in his office. Brodie died at Brown's Flats, N.B. on 26 August 1926 (obit. Telegraph-Journal [Saint John], 27 Aug. 1926, 10; biog. and list of works G.K. Hughes, Music of the Eye: Architectural Drawings of Canada's First City, 1991, 122-5, illus.). The New Brunswick Museum in Saint John holds a small collection of drawings prepared by Brodie.
F. Neil BRODIE (Institutional & Ecclesiastical works in Saint John, N.B.)
ROYAL KENNEBECCASIS YACHT CLUB., club house, 1901 (C.R., xii, 22 May 1901, 6)
GENERAL HOSPITAL, Waterloo Street, major addition and alterations, 1903; surgical ward, 1907; laundry building and out-patients department, 1908; Nurse's Home, 1917-19 (C.R., xiv, 29 July 1903, 2, t.c.; and xviii, 8 May 1907, 8; and 29 July 1908, 25, t.c.; and xxxi, 21 Feb. 1917, 42; Montreal Daily Star, 5 May 1919, 22, t.c.)
BALL'S LAKE FISHING CLUB, club house, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 23 Sept. 1903, 6)
D. McGEE & SONS, King Street, remodelling of the former Y.M.C.A. Building, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 26 April 105, 5)
UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH, Germain Street, Sunday School building, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 29 Oct. 1913, 68)
EAST SAINT JOHN, tuberculosis hospital at Courtney Bay, 1914 (C.R., xxviii, 1 April 1914, 79, t.c.)
KING GEORGE PUBLIC SCHOOL, Bentley Street, 1916-17 (C.R., xxx, 16 Aug. 1916, 65; and xxxii, 16 Ja. 1918, 35-6, illus. & descrip.)
BEACONSFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL, at Lancaster, N.B., 1917 (C.R., xxxii, 16 Jan. 1918, 37, descrip.; dwgs. Saint John School Board)
ST. DAVID'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Sydney Street, opposite Orange Street, 1918-19; still standing in 2023 (C.R., xxxii, 6 March 1918, 45; and xxxiv, 19 May 1920, 452-3, illus. & descrip.; Building News [London], cxviii, 11 June 1920, 457, descrip.)
ST. PETER'S BOY'S SCHOOL, Magazine Street, 1921 (inf. Saint John Board of Education)
LORNE PUBLIC SCHOOL, Newman Street, 1921-22; burned 1982 (inf. Saint John Board of Education)
SAINT JOHN WEST, Albert School, Duke Street, 1922 (C.R., xxxvi, 21 June 1922, 60, t.c.)
HOLY TRINITY ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Burpee Avenue, 1922 (C.R., xxxvi, 12 April 1922, 52, t.c.; dwgs. Saint John Board of Education)
ST. JOHN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, St. James Street, major addition, 1923-24 (C.R., xxxvii, 19 Dec. 1923, 45)
SAINT JOHN WEST, Roman Catholic Church, 1923 (C.R., xxxvii, 19 Dec. 1923, 45)
ST. PATRICK'S ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, City Line Road, 1924 (dwgs. Saint John Board of Education)
SAINT JOHN INFIRMARY, Cobourg Road, major addition, 1924 (C.R., xxxviii, 26 March 1924, 49)
ST. JOHN'S VOCATIONAL SCHOOL, Douglas Avenue at Brunswick Place, 1925 (dwgs. Saint John Board of Education)
F. Neil BRODIE (Commercial & Industrial works in Saint John, N.B.)
KANE & McGRATH LTD., abattoir, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 8 April 1903, 1)
BRUSSELS STREET, at Richmond Street, commercial block for George A. Moore, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 13 May 1903, 6)
J. & A. MacMILLAN LTD., Prince William Street, printing plant, 1905 (C.R., xv, 18 Jan. 1905, 1)
EVENING TIMES NEWSPAPER LTD., Canterbury Street at Church Street, 1905 (Charlottetown Guardian, 15 Dec. 1904, 7, descrip.; C.R., xvi, 26 April 1905, 5)
JAMES PENDER & CO., Charlotte Street, wire mill, engine house, machine rooms, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 14 June 1905, 10)
BANK OF NEW BRUNSWICK, branch buildings for the bank, 1906; 1909 (C.R., xvi, 25 April 1906, 2, t.c.; and xxiii, 19 May 1909, 20)
SAINT JOHN STREET RAILWAY CO., Dock Street, car barns, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 21 Nov. 1906, 2, t.c.)
SIMEON JONES CO., Carmarthen Street, major addition to brewery, 1907-08 (C.R., xviii, 25 Dec. 1907, 19)
NEW BRUNSWICK COLD STORAGE CO., Main Street, warehouse, 1908 (Const., I, April 1908, 33-6, 39, illus. & descrip.)
KING SQUARE, outdoor band stand, 1908 (C.R., xix, 20 May 1908, 29, t.c.)
PRINCE WILLIAM STREET, conversion of the Victoria Hotel for an apartment house, 1911 (dwgs. New Brunswick Museum, Saint John; G.K. Hughes, Music of the Eye: Architectural Drawings of Canada's First City, 1991, 124-5, illus.)
CROSBY MOLASSES CO., Marsh Road, warehouse, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 17 May 1911, 61)
AMES HOLDEN McCREADY LTD., Canterbury Street at Duke Street, warehouse, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 3 April 1912, 69; and 18 Dec. 1912, 119, illus. & descrip.)
W.H. THORNE & CO. LTD., Prince William Street at Market Square, rebuilding of commercial block, 1916 (C.R., xxx, 12 Jan. 1916, 43)
T. McAVITY & SONS, Rothesay Avenue, major addition to iron works, 1918 (C.R., xxxii, 10 April 1918, 41)
F. Neil BRODIE (Residential Works in Saint John, N.B.)
LEINSTER STREET, residence for Hugh S. Wright, 1901 (C.R., xii, 11 Sept. 1901, 3)
DOUGLAS AVENUE, at Falls Road, residence for Fraser Gregory, 1901 (inf. Parks Canada, Ottawa)
DOUGLAS AVENUE, residence for Edward W. Slipp, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 25 July 1903, 4)
DOUGLAS AVENUE, near Bentley Street, residence for J. Kimball Scammell, 1905 (C.R., xv, 15 March 1905, 9)
WENTWORTH STREET, residence for Frank Peters, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 26 April 1905, 5)
KING STREET EAST, pair of houses for George Dunlop, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 26 April 1905, 5)
DOUGLAS AVENUE, residence for Alexander B. Holly, 1905 (Daily Sun [Saint John], 20 July 1905, 2, descrip.; C.R., xvi, 30 Aug. 1905, 6)
F. Neil BRODIE (works elsewhere)
MONCTON, N.B., City Hospital, King Street, 1902-03 (Saint John Globe, 16 May 1902, 2; Daily Transcript [Moncton], 10 Nov. 1903, 1, descrip.; L. Machum, History of Moncton 1855-1965, 177)
MONCTON, N.B., B.E. Smith & Co., Main Street, furniture store, 1905 (C.R., xv, 18 Jan. 1905, 1)
DOUGLASTOWN, N.B., residence for Edward Hutchison, Joudry Lane, 1905 (Daily Sun [Saint John], 26 July 1905, 6, descrip.)
ROTHESAY, N.B., residence for Thomas Bell, 1906 (Daily Sun [Saint John], 22 Dec. 1906, 6, descrip.)
UNION POINT, N.B., Partington Pulp & Paper Co., warehouse, 1907 (Const., i, Oct. 1907, 62)
FREDERICTON, N.B., Bank of New Brunswick, Queen Street, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 7 July 1909, 22, t.c.)
ST. ANDREWS, N.B., residence for Thomas T. Odell Jr., Augustus Street near Montague Street, 1909 (J. Leroux & T. Holownia, St. Andrews Architecture 1604-1966, 2010, Item 34, illus.)
WOODSTOCK, N.B., Carleton County Court House, Main Street at Maple Street, 1909; still standing in 2023 (C.R., xxiii, 19 May 1909, 19, t.c.; M. Carter, Early Canadian Court Houses, 1983, 68, 209, illus.)
MONCTON, N.B., residence for A.H. Wetmore, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 28 April 1909, 21)
NEW GLASGOW, N.S., First Presbyterian Church, MacLean Street at James Street, 1910; still standing in 2023 (dwgs. New Brunswick Museum, Saint John)
MONCTON, N.B., Victoria School Annex, Park Street, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 1 June 1910, 25, t.c.)
CAMPBELLTON, N.B., warehouse for Jones & Schofield, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 3 Aug. 1910, 25)
CAMPBELLTON, N.B., Bank of New Brunswick, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 3 Aug. 1910, 25)
RIVERGLADE, N.B., Jordan Memorial Sanatorium, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 6 March 1912, 66, t.c.)
MONCTON, N.B., parsonage for Central Methodist Church, Queen Street, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 16 Aug. 1911, 62)
FLORENCEVILLE, N.B., Bank of New Brunswick, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 18 Oct. 1911, 59)
CAMPBELLTON, N.B., commercial block for B.A. Mowat & Co., 1911 (C.R., xxv, 13 Sept. 1911, 62)
CAMPBELLTON, N.B., Christ Church (Anglican), Andrew Street at Aberdeen Street, 1911-12 (C.R., xxvi, 18 Oct. 1911, 55)
ST. ANDREW'S, N.B., Prince Arthur Public School, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 6 March 1912, 66, t.c.)
SUSSEX, N.B., public school, c. 1915 (dwgs. New Brunswick Museum, Saint John)
ROTHESAY, N.B., public school, 1915-16 (Saint John Globe, 10 July 1915, 5, t.c.; C.R., xxxii, 16 Jan. 1918, 36-7, illus. & descrip.)
SOUTH BAY, N.B., residence for E. Parker Baker, 1915 (Saint John Globe, 10 July 1915, 12, descrip.)
MONCTON, N.B., Aberdeen School, Botsford Street, 1915-16 (Daily Times [Moncton], 12 March 1915, 8 & 4; Const., x, July 1917, 231, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xxxii, 16 Jan. 1918, 35, illus. & descrip.)
MONCTON, N.B., hotel for Mrs. George McSweeney, 1917 (C.R., xxxi, 18 April 1917, 44)
MONCTON, N.B., Edith Cavell Public School, Park Street, 1919 (C.R., xxxiii, 7 May 1919, 45, t.c.)
RIVERSIDE, N.B., Riverside Golf & Country Club, 1919 (dwgs. NAC, Alward & Gilles Coll., item F57; G. Hughes, Music of the Eye, 1991, 126-8, illus.)
LANCASTER, N.B., a tract of fifty houses for the Lancaster Housing Commission, 1919-20 (C.R., xxxiii, 12 Nov. 1919, 49)
ST. STEPHEN, N.B., major addition to school, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 14 Jan. 1920, 49, t.c.)
MILLTOWN, N.B., public school, 1920-21 (C.R., xxxiv, 16 June 1920, 52, t.c.; J. Leroux, Building New Brunswick-An Architectural History, 2008, 156, illus.)
NEWCASTLE, N.B., Roman Catholic school, 1922-23 (C.R., xxxvi, 8 Nov. 1922, 49)
FREDERICTON, N.B., Memorial Hall, University of New Brunswick, 1923-24 (C.R., xxxvii, 5 Dec. 1923, 51; J. Leroux, Building a University: The Architecture of the Univ. of New Brunswick, 2010, 36-41, illus.; dwgs. Univ. of New Brunswick Archives)
FREDERICTON, N.B., Fredericton High School, George Street at Regent Street, 1924; still standing as of 2019 (dwgs. at Prov. of New Brunwsick, Dept. of Transportation & Infrastructure, Records Collection, Fredericton)
NEWCASTLE, N.B., rebuilding of St. St. Mary's Roman Catholic Convent, 1924 (C.R., xxxviii, 27 Feb. 1924, 52)
CAMPBELLTON, N.B., public school, 1925 (C.R., xxxix, 10 June 1925, 50)