SCULLAND, James Ransom (1873-1959), active in Windsor, Ont. from 1925 until after 1950. Sculland was born in Lanark Township in eastern Ontario on 21 January 1873, and attended Lanark High School, but he does not appear to have received any formal education and training as an architect. Instead, he worked in the construction department of Ontario Graphite Co. near Kearny, Ont. after 1890, and took private study courses in building construction through the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Penn. from 1900 to 1903. He practised architecture in Sault Ste. Marie in 1906 to 1908, but no information can be found on his activity from 1909 until 1925 when he opened his own office in Windsor, Ont. Many of his commissions were for low-rise walk-up apartment buildings in Windsor and in Ottawa, but he is also credited with the design of the seven storey Medical Arts Building in Windsor (1928-29). He resigned from the Ontario Association of Architects after 1940, but reapplied for membership in 1946 and submitted his final resignation note in September 1951. Sculland died in Windsor, Ont. on 4 February 1959 (obituary & port. Windsor Star, 5 Feb. 1959, 8; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects)
(works in Windsor unless noted)
OTTAWA STREET, block of five stores with apartments above for R. Parker, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 14 March 1928, 63)
ROSELAND PUBLIC SCHOOL, Cabana Road East at Clara Avenue, 1928 (letter from J.R. Sculland to the Ont. Assoc. of Architects date 9 Jan. 1946, with list of works)
MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING, Ouellette Avenue near Erie Street, a seven storey commercial block, 1928-29 (C.R., xlii, 30 May 1928, 174; xliii, 27 Feb. 1929, 147)
CAIRNGORAM APARTMENTS, Pitt Street at Bruce Avenue, 1929 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 20 April 1929, Section Three, 6 and 7, illus. & descrip.)
PARKVIEW APARTMENTS, Giles Boulevard at Church Street, 1929-30 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 28 Dec. 1929, Section Five, 3, illus.)
PARKSIDE APARTMENTS, Giles Boulevard at Church Street, immediately beside the Parkview Apartments (see above), 1930-31 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], Section Two, 12, descrip.; dwgs. at City of Windsor Archives, RG4, Plan No. 153)
OTTAWA, ONT., a three storey block of 2 stores and 17 apartment units for David Epstein, O’Connnor Street near Laurier Avenue, 1936 (Ottawa Journal, 18 June 1936, 14, descrip.; C.R., Vol. 50, 8 July 1936, 37)
COMPETITIONS
WINDSOR, ONT., new Central Fire Hall, 1927-28. Sculland was one of three architects who submitted a design, and he received Second Prize of $50 (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 20 Dec. 1927, 5). The winner was A.J. Lothian.