HERRALD, David Easton (1881-1977), active in Manitoba and Alberta where he was in partnership with Arthur G. Wilson (see list of works under Wilson & Herrald). Born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 7 February 1881, he was educated and trained there, and likely began his professional activity as an architect in that city before emigrating to Canada in 1906. He settled in Winnipeg, Man. and formed a partnership with another Scotsman, Arthur G. Wilson, in May 1907, but by 1908 both partners had decided to move nearly 800 miles west to Strathcona, Alberta, across the river from the provincial capitol of Edmonton. Their collaboration was immediately successful, and they opened a branch office in 1910 in downtown Edmonton which remained active until the outbreak of WWI. Herrald was elected as an Associate of the Royal Inst. of British Architects in 1911.
After the end of the Great War, the main office of Wilson & Herrald was moved south to Calgary, Alta. in 1920, and both continued to practise together until late 1923. Herrald then decided to leave Canada and move to Long Beach, Calif. in 1924 where he operated an office as an architect under his own name until after 1950. Only a few references to his work there have been found, and he later died at Sarasota, Florida on 9 December 1977 at the age of 96 years (biog. R.I.B.A., Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, Vol. 1, 897).
LONG BEACH, CALIF., reconstruction and remodelling of the Long Beach Public Library, rebuilt after the 1933 earthquake, 1933-34 (Peter J. Holliday, American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition, 2016, 378)
LONG BEACH, CALIF., Peter H. Burnett Elementary School, Hill Street at Linden Avenue, 1936; with major addition, 1949-50 (Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 1936, Section Five, p. 7; The Independent [Long Beach], 1 June 1949, 7; 27 Nov. 1949, 32A, illus. & descrip.)
LONG BEACH, CALIF., Lindbergh Junior High School, East Market Street near Lewis Avenue, addition of the Practical Arts Wing, and of the Social Sciences Wing, 1936 (Los Angeles Times, 26 July 1936, Section Five, p. 1, descrip.)
LONG BEACH, CALIF., First United Presbyterian Church, East Fifth Street at Atlantic Avenue, 1937-38; with addition of reredos and altar screen, 1948 (Los Angeles Times, 4 July 1937, Section Five, p. 4; The Independent [Long Beach], 13 Nov. 1948, 7)