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Lambert Bassindale papers (N 89), Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
Lambert Bassindale was born in Racine, Wisconsin in 1875. He was educated at the Chicago Art Institute and worked with Chicago and New York City architects in the design of the Cook County Court House and City Hall and the Chicago Northwestern Terminal, both in Chicago, and the Union Railway Terminal in Kansas City. In 1918, Bassindale came to St. Paul as an associate architect, with Charles Frost, for the St. Paul Union Depot and the Great Northern Station in Minneapolis. Other St. Paul buildings credited to Bassindale are the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Omaha and Northwestern Railroad office buildings; First National Bank; Lowry Hotel; Midway and Northern Pacific Hospitals (1918); St. Luke's and Northern Pacific Hospital Nurses Homes; and Wilder Day Nursery. Bassindale was selected in 1931 as architect for the Federal Building, 3rd and Sibley Streets, St. Paul, and hired the Chicago firm of Holabird and Root as consultants. He retired in 1938 and moved to Alexandria, Indiana, where he died in 1945.
The collection contains 12 sheets of blueprints of plot and floor plans and elevations for a public school building at Menomonie, Wisconsin.
An unpublished finding aid with detailed contents is available in the Manuscripts Division.
Charles Frost papers (N 48)
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