RAND, George Dutton (1833-1910) was active in the Boston, Mass. firm of Rand & Taylor, in partnership with Bertrand E. Taylor (1855-1909). Their sole Canadian work was a notable Shingle Style design for the Algonquin Hotel at ST. ANDREW'S, N.B., 1888-89 (Bay Pilot [St. Andrew's], 17 Jan. 1889, 3; American Architect & Building News [New York], xxvi, 14 Dec. 1889, 279 and plate illus.; J. Leroux, Building New Brunswick-An Architectural History, 2008, 116, illus.). This important Canadian landmark was completely destroyed by fire in April 1914, and later replaced by a new hotel building designed by the Montreal firm of Barott, Blackader & Webster in 1915.
Both Rand and Taylor were born in Vermont and together opened their Boston office in 1881. The firm specialized in hospital design, and more than a dozen of their institutional designs can be found throughout New England, including the State Hospital for the Insane at Worcester, Mass., the New Hampshire Hospital for the Insane and the Corey Hill Hospital in Boston. They also completed a major hotel commission in Winter Park, Florida. George D. Rand was born in Coventry, Vermont on 24 May 1833 and studied architecture before working in Hartford, Conn., and later in Boston. He died at Newton, Mass. on 2 Nov. 1910 (death notice in The Directory of Newton, Mass, 1911, 544). Taylor died in Boston on 23 August 1909 (biog. and list of works of Rand & Taylor in Leading Manufacturers & Merchants of the City of Boston, 1885, 126; biog. of Bertrand E. Taylor in H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 590)