Ramsey County History – Winter 2016: “The Sullwold Saga”

The Sullwold Saga
Author: William Beyer, FAIA

This article is a biographical profile of a little-known architect, Herbert A. Sullwold (1883–1969), who was born in St. Paul, studied mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, and, in 1907, graduated from the program in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sullwold soon found work in a St. Paul architectural firm before going into business for himself. His early commissions were distinguished, but his practice was a modest one until he was selected by the College of St. Catherine (now St. Catherine University) to design the Our Lady of Victory Chapel (1924) and the science building, Mendel Hall, in 1927. For reasons that are today unknown, Sullwold relocated shortly thereafter to the Los Angeles area, where he continued his architectural practice but left few traces of his work there.
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