Title: Bray and Nystrom Papers
Dates: 1908-1918
Size: 2.5 ft.
William Bray was born in New York state in 1868 and had an early apprenticeship there in architecture. He moved to Duluth in 1891 to work as a draftsmana and was employed in the office of Traphagen & Fitzpatrick from 1892 to 1898. In 1902, he was a partner of Carl Wirth, then joined I. Vernon Hill in partnership from 1902 to 1904. He practiced alone until 1905, then became a partner of Carl Nystrom until about 1915. He returned to private practice and subsequently entered into a partnership with Claude H. Smith in 1923 which lasted until 1925. When Bray retired he moved to California. He died in Beverly Hills in 1959.
Carl Nystrom was born in Sweden in 1867 or 1868 and migrated to the United States in 1889. He worked in several architects' offices in Ironwood, Michigan, Ashland, Wisconsin, and Duluth, where he settled in 1892. He was a partner in the firm of Young & Nystrom from 1902 to 1905, then joined William Bray in partnership until 1915. After the dissolution of the firm, Nystrom practiced alone until his death in 1944. Works in the collection include the Holland Hotel (Duluth, 1909); Wakefield (Minnesota) Town Hall (1915); and elementary and high schools at Eveleth and Marble, Minnesota.
(See also Claude H. Smith Papers)
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