Purcell and Elmslie, Architects

Firm active: 1907-1921

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C. T. Backus Residence
Purcell and Elmslie
Minneapolis, Minnesota  1915

Text by William Gray Purcell

Parabiographies entry, Volume for 1915

Job Date (in Parabiography): May 17, 1915

C. T. Backus Dwelling, Minneapolis, Minnesota

I presume that George Elmslie was pretty busy with the Sioux City Court House about this time. At any rate, it was up to me to design this little house and I had a good time doing it.
 

Collection: William Gray Purcell Papers, Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota [AR:B4d1.9]
Research courtesy Mark Hammons