STURM, Meyer Joseph (1872-1954), an American architect who was a leading specialist in the design of hospitals in the United States and Canada. Born on 11 September 1872, he attended the Armour Inst. of Technology in Chicago, then moved to Boston where he studied architecture at the Massachusetts Inst. of Technology and graduated in 1896. He trained under Handy & Cady of Chicago (1896-97), and worked as draftsman in the local Chicago site office of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge of Boston (1897-98), then opened his own office in Chicago in 1899. His name can be linked to more than one hundred and fifty hospital buildings in the United States, and he served as consulting architect and designer of eight hospital and residence buildings in western Canada. He was also the co-author of ‘The Organization, Construction and Management of Hospitals’ pub. 1907, a standard reference work on the subject of architectural design of hospitals structures. Sturm died in Chicago on 1 December 1954 (death notice Chicago Daily Tribune, 2 Dec. 1954, Section Six, p. 10; inf. Saskatchewan Assoc. of Architects, Application for Membership dated 5 March 1912; inf. from American Inst. of Architects, Washington)
WINNIPEG, MAN., major alterations and improvements to Winnipeg General Hospital, Bannatyne Avenue at Olivia Street, 1908-09 (Winnipeg Tribune, 9 June 1908, 3, descrip.; 31 Dec. 1908, 5, descrip.; C.R., xxii, 17 June 1908, 30; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 1 Jan. 1909, 7)
(with Storey & Van Egmond) REGINA, SASK., Regina General Hospital, 14th Avenue at St. John’s Street, 1909-11 (C.R., xxiii, 6 Jan. 1909, 24, t.c.; Const., iii, Dec. 1909, 90-1, 94, illus. & descrip.)
EDMONTON, ALTA., City Hospital, Norwood Boulevard, between 2nd Street and 4th Street, 1910 (Edmonton Capital, 25 Jan. 1910, 2 & 6, descrip.)
EDMONTON, ALTA., Nurses’ Residence for the Royal Alexandra Hospital, 102nd Street at 111th Avenue, 1911 (Edmonton Capital, 10 Feb. 1911, 5, descrip.; 3 March 1911, 1, descrip.; C.R., xxv, 22 Feb. 1911, 29)
(with Wilson & Herrald) STRATHCONA, ALTA., South Side Civic Hospital, 112th Street, on the campus of the Univ. of Alberta in Edmonton, designed 1911; built 1913-14 (C.R., xxvii, 5 March 1913, 70; 13 Aug. 1913, 68; Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 15 Nov. 1913, 1, illus. & descrip.; Edmonton Capital, 26 July 1911, 5, but the architect is incorrectly named as "Mr. Sterns [sic] of Chicago"; 22 Jan. 1914, 2, descrip.)
(with Brown & Vallance) SASKATOON, SASK., Saskatoon City Hospital, Queen Street at 7th Avenue North, 1912-13 (C.R., xxvi, 14 Feb. 1912, 58; Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 15 Feb. 1913, 13, illus. & descrip.)
(with R.G. Bunyard) MOOSE JAW, SASK., Moose Jaw Hospital, Fairford Street East at 4th Avenue N.E., 1912 (Moose Jaw Semi-Weekly Times, 20 Aug. 1912, 1)