GOODHUE, Bertram Grosvenor (1869-1924), a partner in the leading Boston firm of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, and a talented ecclesiastical architect in his own right. Born in Pomfret, Conn. he trained in New York with James Renwick, a master of 19th C. ecclesiastical design, and in 1890 he began a long association with Ralph A. Cram, at first as Cram, Wentworth & Goodhue (1892-98), and as Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson (1898-1913). Their major works included the West Point Military Academy & Chapel, West Point, N.Y. (1903-14), All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Halifax, N.S. (1906), and Saint Thomas Church in New York City (1906-14). As a member of the summer colony in the Stanstead region of southern Quebec, Goodhue was asked to submit plans for St. Barnabas Anglican Church, NORTH HATLEY, QUE. in 1892. This modest Gothic design was completed in late 1893 and opened on 23 Jan. 1894. Three years later, in 1897 he returned to the town and designed a large birch wood font for the church.
After the dissolution of the firm of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson in December 1913, Goodhue opened his own office in New York City and produced several American masterpieces of public architecture including the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. (1919-24), the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale Univ., New Haven, Conn. (1920-24), the State Capitol Building at Lincoln, Nebraska (1920-32), and the Central Public Library in Los Angeles, Calif. (1922-26). Goodhue died in New York City on 23 April 1924 (obit. New York Times, 24 April 1924, 19; Architectural Record [New York], lv, May 1924, 468; biog. H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 239-40; Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 1982, ii, 229-31). A full monograph on the career and work of Goodhue was published in 1982 by the Architectural History Foundation (Richard Oliver, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, 1982).
NORTH HATLEY, QUE., St. Barnabas Anglican Church, 1892-93; with addition of a font in the nave, 1897 (History of St. Barnabas, North Hatley 1894-1977, 8, illus.; Canadian Churchman [Toronto], xxiii, 23 Dec. 1897, 799).
(with Ralph Cram & Frank W. Ferguson) HALIFAX, N.S., All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Cathedral Lane at University Avenue, 1906 (Halifax Mail, 7 March 1931, 18, historical article on the church).