BERGH, Louis De Coppet (1856-1913), a prominent architect and civil engineer in New York City from 1881 until his death in 1913. Bergh was a partner in the firm of Cady, Bergh & See, Architects which received the commission to design the four storey Beaux-Arts block for the American Bank Note Building, Wellington Street, OTTAWA, ONT. in 1897 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 13 April 1897, 6, descrip.). This project was carried out with the Ottawa firm of Arnoldi & Ewart, who served as local supervising architects. Born in New York City on 20 December 1856, Bergh attended public school there, then moved to Europe where he studied engineering and architecture at the Moravian Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland, and at the Royal Polytechnique in Stuttgart. He commenced his architectural career in New York in 1881 where he was a member of the following firms:
See & Bergh, 1881
J.C. Cady & Co. 1882-1891
Cady, Bergh & See, 1892-1905
Louis De C. Bergh, 1905-1913
As a member of the firm of Cady, Bergh & See, he was credited with the design of 17 different buildings on the campus of Yale University in Connecticut, including the Yale Law School (Hendrie Hall) 1894, and North Sheffield Hall, Winchester Hall, and Sheffield Chemical Labs, 1894-95 (Patrick Pinnell, Yale University- The Campus Guide, 1999, 85, 148-9, illus.). He was nominated as a Fellow of the American Inst. of Architects in 1888. Bergh died in Washington, D.C. on 26 January 1913 (obit. Washington Post, 28 Jan. 1913, 14; Washington Times, 28 Jan. 1913, 9; Washington Herald, 28 Jan. 1913, 12; obit. American Architect & Building News [New York], ciii, 19 Feb. 1913, 6; biog. Who Was Who in America 1897-1942, 87; biog. H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 53-4). A lengthy illustrated article on the work of Cady, Bergh & See was published in Architectural Record [New York], vi, April 1897, 517-553, illus.