CREUTZER, John Alfred (1874-1929) of Seattle, Washington, completed works in Canada as partner in the firm of Quandt & Creutzer (see works under F.W. Quandt). He also worked alone under his own name, and in 1928 he was responsible for the Manhattan-style stepped skyscraper for the Medical-Dental Building at Dunsmuir Street and Howe Street, VANCOUVER, B.C. (The Province [Vancouver], 27 May 1928, 28, illus. & descrip.). This 18 storey tower would have become a West Coast landmark, but the unexpected death of Creutzer on 3 August 1929, and the subsequent stock market crash in October 1929 likely caused the project to be shelved, and it was never built.
John A. Creutzer was born in Sweden on 22 September 1874 and began his practise in Minneapolis, Minn., then moved to Spokane, Washington before arriving in Seattle in 1906. He formed a partnership there with Frederick W. Quandt in 1910. His works in Seattle include the Swedish Tabernacle (1906-07), the Medical-Dental Building (1924-25), and the Charbern and Granada apartment blocks. An obituary article on Creutzer can be found in the Pacific Builder & Engineer [Seattle], xxxv, Sept. 1929, 46. (biog. of Creutzer in H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 149; biog. in J.K. Ochsner, Shaping Seattle Architecture, 2014, 429).