SHATTUCK & HUSSEY, architects of Chicago, Ill., comprising Walter Francis Shattuck (1871-1948), and the Canadian-born Harry Henry Hussey (1882-1967). Together, they specialised in the field of architectural design for branches of the Young Men’s Christian Association and the Young Women’s Christian Association facilities in the United States and Canada after 1900. Their firm was credited with over sixty Association buildings to which they alone were sole designers, but they also collaborated with local architects such as Burke, Horwood & White of Toronto on the design of Canadian branches. They employed a Georgian or Renaissance Revival style for much of their work, best seen in their design for the YMCA in Nashville, Tenn. (1911), and in the 12 storey YMCA in Minneapolis (1919), which still stands today and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Walter F. Shattuck was born in Illinois on 12 December 1871 and trained in Chicago. He spent his entire career there, and later died at Evanston, Illinois on 14 December 1948 (death notice Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 1948, 38). He should not be confused with the Montreal architect George C. Shattuck, who was active in that Canadian city from 1899 to 1902, and to whom he appears to be unrelated. His business partner Harry. H. Hussey was born in Port Dover, Ontario on 29 January 1882, but moved to Chicago after 1900 where he joined Shattuck in a partnership lasting for nearly twenty years. He later returned to the Port Dover area after 1950 and died there on 8 May 1967.
(with Burke, Horwood & White) TORONTO, ONT., Y.M.C.A., College Street at Bay Street, 1910-11; demol. C. 1982 (C.R., xxiv, 21 Sept. 1910, 25)
GALT, ONT., Y.M.C.A., Queen’s Square, 1911-12 (Brantford Daily Expositor, 8 Sept. 1911, 7; C.R., xxv, 15 Nov. 1911, 58; and xxvi, 7 Feb. 1912, 62, t.c.; and 5 June 1912, 56, illus. & descrip.)
(with Burke, Horwood & White) LONDON, ONT., Y.M.C.A., remodelling and major addition, 1911-12 (C.R., xxv, 13 Dec. 1911, 118)
(with Henry S. Griffith) VANCOUVER, B.C., Central Y.M.C.A., West Georgia Street, 1912 (The Sun [Vancouver], 29 Feb. 1912, 16, descrip.; Vancouver Daily World, 2 March 1912, 42)
KITCHENER, ONT., The Y.M.C.A., Frederick Street, 1913 ((Berlin News Record [Kitchener], 29 May 1913, 1)