SCOPES, William Henry (1877-1964), active in New York City in partnership with Maurice M. Feustmann from 1910 to 1933. Born in Albany N.Y. on 16 October 1877, he underwent treatment for tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, N.Y. in 1896, and it is coincidental that another patient at the sanitarium there was Maurice M. Feustmann. Both met and discovered their mutual interest in architecture, and Scopes began to practise under his own name in 1903. Together they formed a partnership, opening an office in New York City in 1910 and remaining active there until 1933. They became specialists in the design of hospitals and sanatoriums in the United States. In Canada, their names can be linked to the plans of at least four medical facilities in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and in Quebec. They also prepared the designs for sanitarium complexes in Vermont, Connecticut, New York State and in Minnesota.
Many of their best works such as the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital at Saranac Lake N.Y. (1928) were designed in an elaborate Tudor Revival style, but their concept for the Town Hall at Harrietstown, N.Y. (1928) is a impressive essay in the Renaissance Revival style, and still stands today. Scopes retired after 1932 and later died at New York City on 24 December 1964 (inf. Newsletter of the Adirondack Architectural Heritage, Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1992, 7-8)
LAKE EDWARD, QUE. [near La Tuque], the Lake Edward Sanitarium, 1908 (Montreal Daily Star, 25 April 1908, 6, illus. & descrip.)
STE. AGATHE, QUE., a sanitarium building, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 3 March 1909, 20)
KENTVILLE, NOVA SCOTIA, two new large patient pavilion wings at the Provincial Sanitarium, 1913 (Weekly Monitor [Bridgetown], 16 July 1913, 1; inf. Gary Shutlak, PANS, Halifax)
NORTH WILTSHIRE, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, The Dalton Sanitarium, 1913-16 (Charlottetown Guardian, 23 July 1913, 1, descrip; 19 April 1916, 1 & 4, illus.)