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Bertrand and Chamberlin collection (N 168), Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
The collection is organized alphabetically by commission name.
George Emile Bertrand was born on June 22, 1859 in Superior, Wisconsin. He was educated in Boston and Minneapolis and began practicing professionally in 1881. He established an architectural firm in Minneapolis in 1886 and formed a partnership with Walter Keith in 1890. This partnership lasted until 1894 and in 1897 Bertrand partnered with Arthur B. Chamberlin. The firm of Bertrand & Chamberlin was active until the death of George Bertrand on October 31, 1931.
Arthur Bishop Chamberlin was born in Solon, Ohio on March 12, 1865. He worked as a draftsman in Minneapolis from 1884-1889 and relocated to Seattle in 1890. There he worked as a draftsman and delineator for Saunders & Houghton (1890-1891), John Parkinson (1891-1893), William Boone (1893), and practiced as an architect from 1893-1894. Chamberlin returned to Minneapolis in 1896 and partnered with George Bertrand in 1897. Arthur Chamberlin died on September 28, 1933.
The collection contains blueprints for the Chamber of Commerce office building in Minneapolis (1928), the Minneapolis Athletic Club (1913), the Orchard Lake School addition in Burnsville, Minnesota (1922), the School of Incarnation in Minneapolis (1929) and the State Bank of Commerce in Minneapolis (1921).
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