Brunner, Arnold William | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

BRUNNER, Arnold William (1857-1925) was a talented architect and city planner of New York City who designed Galt Hospital, First Avenue, LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, 1908-10 (C.R., xxiii, 14 July 1909, 21; Lethbridge Herald, 18 June 1931, 10). This sublime Beaux-Arts work is his only Canadian commission and is now used as the Alexander Galt Museum. Brunner received his architectural education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, and on graduating in 1879 served an apprenticeship with George B. Post of New York City. His best known American work includes Mount Sinai Hospital, New York (1898), the Federal Building in Cleveland, Ohio (1901), the Stadium of the College of the City of New York, and the School of Mines at Columbia University (1904). He died in New York City on 14 February 1925 (obituary in the New York Times, 15 Feb. 1925, 26; biography in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 1982, i, 314; H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 85).