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Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Architect
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23/04/1924
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was born in Pomfret, Connecticut on 28 April 1869. At the age of fifteen he was articled to New York ecclesiastical architect James Renwick. He remained with Renwick for six years before moving to Boston, and it was there that in 1891 he joined the office of Ralph Adams Cram, whose partner Charles Wentworth had recently been forced to retire for reasons of ill-health. The practice title changing to Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, and the firm was instrumental in bringing the full force of the Gothic revival to American ecclesiastical architecture. Around 1910-12, Goodhue withdrew from the partnership to practise independently in New York. On his death on 23 April 1924, his practice was continued by Francis S L Mayers, Oscar H Murray and F Hardie Phillip, initially as Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue Associates; its title was changed to Mayers, Murray & Phillip by 1931.

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New York New York United States of AmericaBusiness

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NameName LinkDate FromDate ToPositionNotes
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson206130In year 18911910 or 1911 or 1912Partner

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NameName LinkDate FromDate ToPositionNotes
F Hardie Phillip206129After 1912In year 1924Senior Assistant
James William Spence205319In year 1910In year 1911Assistant
James Taylor Thomson202897In year 1912In year 1920Assistant
F Hardie Phillip206129In year 1912Before 1924Assistant
John Turnbull205404In year 1926In year 1929Assistant

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AuthorTitleDatePublisherPartNotes
Withey, Henry F and Withey, Elsie RathburnBiographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased)1970Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc (originally published in 1956)Facsimile edition
Oliver, RichardBertram Grosvenor Goodhue1983New York, Cambridge & London: Architectural History Foundation/MIT Press