TUTTLE, Eldred Dodsworth (1878-1965) was active in Winnipeg, Man. where he specialized in the design of school buildings in that city and in surrounding towns and villages in rural Manitoba. Born in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia on 3 May 1878, he attended elementary school in the Maritimes, and gained experience in construction by working in various building trades. He apparently “…showed a marked talent and inclination for architecture” and later took correspondence courses in architecture, likely through the International Correspondence School based in Scranton, Penn. He moved to Winnipeg in 1898 or 1899, then spent five years in building construction, and two years as a construction foreman.
In June 1906 he was invited by Albert Jewett to form a partnership (see list of works under Jewett & Tuttle). This collaboration ended in late 1907 when Jewett moved to Milwaukee, and Tuttle then opened an office in Winnipeg under his own name. His early works were primarily residential and ecclesiastical buildings, but by 1910 he began to take a particular interest in the design of public schools, and his name can be linked to more than twenty educational works throughout southern Manitoba. These buildings, such as the Britannia School in the St. James neighbourhood of Winnipeg (1910; addition 1912) were invariably designed in a restrained Edwardian style, with brick facades, bold arched entrances, and a symmetrical plan which allowed for growth and expansion by adding classroom wings as student enrolment grew rapidly before WWI. He continued to specialize in school design after WWI, particularly in small towns in rural Manitoba.
In 1924 Tuttle left Canada and moved to the United States, and became a resident of Chicago, Ill. His name was recorded there in 1930 where he was working as a draftsman (and perhaps as a designer) for the Board of Education in Chicago. In 1940 he was listed as “architect, City Public Schools, Chicago” and he may have been responsible for the design of several school buildings in that city after 1925. Tuttle died on 15 September 1965 (obit. Winnipeg Free Press, 16 Sept. 1965, 30; biog. and port. in F.H. Scholfield, The Story of Manitoba, 1913, Vol. ii, 278-79)
(works in Winnipeg unless noted)
KILDONAN, residence for Donald Munro, 1907 (Manitoba Morning Free Press [Winnipeg], 6 July 1907, 31)
ROSEDALE, residence for Mr. Harewood, 1907 (Manitoba Morning Free Press [Winnipeg], 6 July 1907, 31)
ELMWOOD, residence for Robert Gunn, Johnson Street, 1907 (Manitoba Morning Free Press [Winnipeg], 6 July 1907, 31)
CRESCENT ROAD [a continuation of Wellington Crescent], major addition to residence for Enoch Winkler, 1907 (Manitoba Morning Free Press [Winnipeg], 16 July 1907, 10, t.c.)
LOUISE BRIDGE METHODIST CHURCH, Elmwood Road, major alterations and improvements, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 18 Sept. 1907, 2, t.c.; Winnipg. b.p. 1481, 1907)
KING EDWARD PLACE METHODIST CHURCH, King Edward Street, near Ness Avenue, 1907; demol. (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 21 Nov. 1907, 22)
ELMWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Riverton Street at Bird's Hill Road, major addition, 1907 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 21 Nov. 1907, 22)
FORT ROUGE, two cottages for Ezra Sproule, near the CNR workshops, 1908 (C.R., xxii, 3 June 1908, 27)
CATHEDRAL AVENUE, residence for R. Newton Lowery, 1908 (C.R., xxii, 17 June 1908, 30)
HARVARD AVENUE, residence for Herbert Hutton, 1908 (C.R., xxii, 17 June 1908, 30)
ELMWOOD, residence for Mr. Smart, 1908 (Winnipeg Tribune, 27 June 1908, 2)
STARBUCK, MAN., public school, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 2 March 1910, 24, t.c.; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 30 April 1910, 19, illus. & descrip.)
GIMLI, MAN., Fresh Air Home for the Methodist Church, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 25 May 1910, 27, t.c.)
ST. JAMES, MAN., Britannia Public School, Hampton Road, 1910; major addition, 1912; demol. 1979 (C.R., xxiv, 6 July 1910, 41-2, illus. & descrip.; xxvii, 29 Jan. 1913, 55, illus. & descrip.; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 18 April 1910, 11, illus. & descrip.; 30 Nov. 1912, 13, illus. & descrip.; 15 Feb. 1913, 13, illus. & descrip.)
EVANSON STREET, residence for Alex A. Miller, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 1 March 1911, 27)
WOLSELEY AVENUE, residence for William H. Morgan, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 17 May 1911, 61)
BALMORAL PLACE, residence for George Cram, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 7 June 1911, 61, t.c.)
GRETNA, MAN., public school, 1912 (Winnipeg Tribune, 15 Feb. 1912, 10, list of works by Tuttle)
SWAN RIVER, MAN., public school for District 1047, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 21 Feb. 1912, 64, t.c.)
TRANSCONA PUBLIC SCHOOL, Oxford Street, 1912 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 19 Oct. 1912, 13, illus. & descrip.)
BROOKLANDS PUBLIC SCHOOL, Pacific Avenue, 1912-13; major addition, 1914 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 30 Nov. 1912, 14, illus.; Winnipeg Tribune, 3 Jan. 1914, 7, illus. & descrip.)
PARKHOLME APARTMENTS, Home Street, 1913 (Winnipeg b.p. 3436, 1913; C.R., xxvii, 15 Oct. 1913, 72)
EVANGELICAL CHURCH, Burnell Street at Alverstone Street, 1914 (Winnipeg b.p. 2516, 1914)
BENITO, MAN., public school, 1914 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 4 April 1914, 2)
OAK BLUFF, MAN., a residence for the Principal of the Oak Bluff Consolidated School District, 1914 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 23 April 1914, 10, t.c.)
ELM CREEK, MAN., public school for the Wingham School District, 1920 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 28 Feb. 1920, 5, t.c.)
ARDEN, MAN., public school, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 28 April 1920, 60)
ROBLIN, MAN., public school for Goose Lake School District, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 28 July 1920, 49)
BEULAH, MAN., public school for Miniota School District, 1921 (Winnipeg Tribune, 26 April 1921, 2, t.c.)