BYERS, Robert Sankey (1878-1950) was born in Winnipeg, Man. on 10 December 1878 and moved to Rochester, N.Y. in 1897 to article with George C. Hollister. From 1904 until late 1910 he practiced in Rochester under his own name (C. & A. Schmidt, Architecture and Architects of Rochester, N.Y., 1959, 124). In March 1911 he moved to Saskatoon, Sask. and opened an office there, and later joined the Saskatchewan Association of Architects in February 1912. Byers is recorded as the designer of several commercial buildings in Saskatoon where he employed a stripped classical vocabulary in the treatment of the facades. He left that city in late 1913 and returned to Rochester where he continued to practice until after 1940. Byers died in Spencerport, N.Y. on 31 March 1950 (death notice Democrat & Chronicle [Rochester], 2 April 1950, C 4; inf. Sask. Association of Architects).
(works in Rochester, N.Y.)
HAYDEN FURNITURE CO., North Goodman Street, a large factory adjacent to the New York Central rail line, 1904 (Democrat & Chronicle [Rochester], 30 April 1904, 10, descrip.)
EAST AVENUE, near Strathallan Park, a mansion for William B. Ellwanger, 1907 (Democrat & Chronicle [Rochester], 22 June 1988, p. D 10; 3 Jan. 1989, p. D 6, illus.)
(works in Saskatchewan)
SASKATOON, SASK., commercial block for Martin & Hargreaves Ltd., 2nd Avenue North near 22nd Street, 1912 (Saturday Press [Saskatoon], 1912, Supplement, 24, illus.)
(with William Fingland) SASKATOON, SASK., Standard Trusts Block, 3rd Avenue North at 22nd Street, 1912-13 (Saturday Press [Saskatoon], 1912, Supplement, 17, illus.)
NORTH BATTLEFORD, SASK., public school, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 10 April 1912, 65, t.c.)
SASKATOON, SASK., apartment block for Dr. Alexander MacG. Young, 5th Avenue, 1912 (Saskatoon Daily Star, 30 May 1912, Section Two, 7, t.c.)
SASKATOON, SASK., Drinkle Block No. 2, 3rd Avenue South at 22nd Street East, 1913 (Saturday Press [Saskatoon], 1913, Progress & Development Number, Section Four, 1)