Over its 100 years plus of history the firm has been responsible for numerous projects, and our archives are extensive. Of particular interest are the church projects since it is these institutions that most frequently contact us requesting copies of original drawings. As well, the archives hold innumerable residential projects, most of which are identified by the name of the original client, rather than municipal address. In addition, there are drawing archives of the various university, other institutional and social housing projects. The University of Calgary Archives archived some of the design and competition work of J. Frances Brown Architect and F. Bruce Brown Architect.

From the mid-1920’s onwards, projects were filed by project number but we have discovered that earlier projects were not so organized. In fact, many early projects are not even dated. As a result, their locations are simply identified by a numeric tube number. Later, often smaller projects or project proposals were filed in alphabetically identified tubes. In any case, we have attempted to identify the nature of the archive material for each project listed. While many projects listed are ones the predecessor firms have carried out, we have discovered blueprints for some original buildings by other architects that our predecessors expanded or altered. The names of the responsible architects are listed with the project drawing information. Often these drawings are filed with the firm archives and so duplication of project numbers results.

As for the architects throughout the years, the following acronyms have been created to reference our various predecessor firm names:

Having stewardship of these files creates a responsibility to make the expanse of information both known and available. On this basis, we have created this database of our church project drawing archives. It is organized alphabetically, with file location (project or tube number), municipality, architect and project type headings providing additional information. Should you be looking for drawings of your church building that we have listed on file, we would be pleased to retrieve, reproduce and forward them for a nominal fee to cover our costs. Please contact us indicating the church project name and location for a quote.

For a complete PDF file of the church projects archive, please click logo.