SOMERVELL, Woodruffe Marbury (1872-1938)
(biography in preparation)
W. M. SOMERVELL (works in Vancouver)
BAUER BUILDING (also called the The Pacific Building), West Hastings Street at Howe Street, for William A. Bauer, 1910-11 (Vancouver Daily World, 12 Feb. 1910, 18, detailed descrip.; Vancouver & Victoria Architecturally, 1911, unpag.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
BANK OF OTTAWA, West Hastings Street at Seymour Street, 1910-11 (Northwest Architect [Portland], ii, May 1910, plate illus.; C.R., xxiv, 31 Aug. 1910, 41, illus. & descrip.; Vancouver Daily World, 1 Sept. 1910, 18, t.c.; Province [Vancouver], 9 March 1912, 38, illus.)
SOMERVELL & PUTNAM (works in Vancouver unless noted)
BRITISH COLUMBIA ELECTRIC RAILWAY BUILDING, Carrall Street at West Hastings Street, office block and station terminus for transit line, 1911-12 (Vancouver Daily World, 24 Nov. 1910, 23, descrip.; and 16 March 1912, 4, detailed architectural descrip.; C.R., xxv, 5 April 1911, 37, illus. & descrip.; xxvi, 28 Feb. 1912, 46-7, illus. & descrip.; Province [Vancouver], 23 March 1912, 42, descrip.; Const., xviii, Oct. 1925, 326, illus.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
BURNABY, B.C., Town Hall, 1911 (Province [Vancouver], 4 March 1911, 15; C.R., xxv, 15 March 1911, 53)
EDMONDS, B.C., Municipal Hall, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 5 April 1911, 54)
POINT GREY, residence for Mrs. A.M. Winters, 35th Avenue West near Cypress Street, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 2 Aug. 1911, 62, t.c.)
COLUMBIA FLOURING MILLS, Beach Avenue, warehouse, 1912 (Daily Building Record [Vancouver], 2 Jan. 1912, 1; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
WEST PENDER STREET, office block for McMahon, McFarland & Proctor, 1911-12 (C.R., xxv, 6 Dec. 1911, 60)
SECHELT, B.C., hotel and sanatorium, 1911-12 (C.R., xxv, 20 Dec. 1911, 60)
BEATTY BUILDING, Beatty Street near West Pender Street, 1911 (H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1993, 61, illus.)
BIRKS BUILDING, Granville Street at West Georgia Street, 1912-13; demol. 1974 (The Sun [Vancouver], 23 March 1912, 15, descrip.; Vancouver Daily World, 20 June 1912, 4, descrip.; C.R., xxvi, 31 Jan. 1912, 66; Province [Vancouver], 8 Nov. 1913, 18, descrip.; Const., vii, May 1914, 178, illus.; xi, January 1918, 31-2, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
LONDON BUILDING, West Pender Street near Granville Street, a nine storey commercial block for the British North America Co., 1912 (Vancouver Daily World, 18 Jan. 1912, 9; C.R., xxvi, 21 Feb. 1912, 67; Province [Vancouver], 18 May 1912, 31, descrip.; dwgs. at the Vancouver City Archives)
CRANE & CO., Cambie Street near Pender Street, a 7 storey office and warehouse, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 16 March 1912, 38, illus.)
MERCHANTS BANK, West Hastings Street at Carrall Street, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 6 July 1912, 25; 13 July 1912, 18, illus.; Architectural Review [London], xxxvi, Aug. 1914, 31-33, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
YORKSHIRE GUARANTEE SECURITIES LTD., Seymour Street near Dunsmuir Street, 1912-13 (Province [Vancouver], 24 Aug. 1912, 23, descrip.; Vancouver Daily World, 22 Feb. 1913, 19, illus., but lacking attribution; Vancouver Daily World, 29 Oct. 1913, 13, descrip.; C.R., xxviii, 4 March 1914, 276-7, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
THEATRE & PLAYHOUSE, for Klaw & Erlanger, Nelson Street, between Granville Street and Seymour Street, 1912 (Vancouver Daily World, 30 Sept. 1912, 8, illus. & descrip.)
BALFOUR AVENUE, near Granville Street, residence for Mrs. S.A. Codd, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 26 Oct. 1912, 30, illus. & descrip.)
CYPRESS STREET, at Mathews Avenue, residence for W.A. Bauer, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 9 Nov. 1912, 31, descrip.)
LAKE BUNTZEN ELECTRIC POWER PLANT, in the North Arm, Vancouver Harbour, for the B.C. Electric Railway Co., 1912-13 (Canadian Electrical News [Toronto], xxiii, 15 June 1914, 91, illus. & descrip.)
GRANVILLE STREET, at 57th Avenue, 'Shannon', a mansion for Benjamin T. Rogers, 1913-23; stables, garage and garden buildings, 1915 (C.R., xxvii, 3 Dec. 1913, 69; Const., vii, May 1914, 174, illus.; dwgs. at Canadian Architectural Archives, Univ. of Calgary, Erickson Coll.)
MERCHANTS BANK, Granville Street at Pender Street, 1915 (C.R., xxix, 17 March 1915, 55; The Sun [Vancouver], 8 July 1915, 8, descrip.; Const., xi, April 1918, 113-16, 118-19, illus. & descrip.)
CROWN BROOM WORKS LTD., Front Street East, 1917 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
UNION BANK OF CANADA, West Hastings Street at Seymour Street, 1919-20 (Vancouver Daily World, 28 July 1919, 13, illus. & descrip.; and 16 Oct. 1920, 13, descrip.; Vancouver Sun, 17 Oct. 1920, 48, illus. & detailed descrip.; C.R., xxxiii, 2 April 1919, 49; xxxiv, and 23 June 1920, 598-9, illus. & descrip.; and xxxv, 5 Jan. 1921, 10-12, illus. & descrip.; Const., xiv, July 1921, 206-08, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives)
SOMERVELL & PUTNAM (works in Southern California)
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF., mansion for Mrs. Louis G. Dreyfus, 1924 (Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 1924, Section Five, 1, illus.)
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., 38th Street Public School, for the Los Angeles Unified School District, 1924-25 (Southwest Builder & Contractor [Los Angeles], lxv, 24 Oct. 1924)
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF., residence for the architect W. Marbury Somervell, Anacapa Street at East De La Guerra Street, 1925 (Architectural Digest [Los Angeles], lxii, Feb. 2005, 150)
VERNON, CALIF., major addition to grandstand at Vernon Baseball Field, and alterations to baseball clubhouse, 1926 (Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 1926, Section Five, p. 9)
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., Preuss Village, Wilshire Boulevard at Preuss Drive, a large retail and residential complex of stores, luxury apartments and studios, running for 650 feet along Wilshire Boulevard, with 20 retail stores, designed ".....in the Mediterranean style" (Los Angeles Evening Express, 19 Feb. 1926, 5, illus. & descrip.)
CHEVY CHASE, CALIF., Golf & Country Club House, Chevy Chase Drive, 1925-26 (Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 1926, Section Five, 2, descrip.; 2 Oct. 1927, Section Five, 4, illus. & descrip.)
CHEVY CHASE, CALIF., residence for Dr. Albert Irving Bouffleur, 1927 (Los Angeles Times, 3 April 1927, Section Five, 7, illus.)
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., Pan American Bank, c. 1927 (Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 1928, Section Six, 9, list of works)
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., United States National Bank, c. 1927 (Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 1928, Section Six, 9, list of works)
W. M. SOMERVELL (works elsewhere)
WASHINGTON, D.C., National Memorial to Mothers, 1930 (Los Angeles Record, 7 Nov. 1930, 11)
COMPETITIONS
VICTORIA, B.C., Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital, 1913. The Vancouver firm of Somervell & Putnam were one of several firms who submitted drawings for this project (Vancouver Sun, 18 Aug. 1913, 4). They received the Second Prize of $1,000. The winner was Loring P. Rixford of Victoria.