James William Reid was an American architect of the firm of Reid & Reid

Reid & Reid

Reid & Reid was the architectural and engineering firm of brothers, James W. Reid , Merritt J. Reid , and Watson Elkinah Reid that began in Evansville, Indiana in 1879.- Notable projects :...

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Reid Born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, to William J. Reid and Lucinda Robinson, and went on to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 (MIT). Reid and brother Merritt J.

Merritt J. Reid

Merritt J. Reid was an American architect of the firm of Reid & Reid.Reid Born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, to William J. Reid and Lucinda Robinson, and went on to graduate from École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Reid and brother James W...

 worked for a time at the architectural firm of Boyd and Brickley in Evansville, Indiana

Evansville, Indiana

Evansville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the largest city in Southern Indiana. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 117,429. It is the county seat of Vanderburgh County and the regional hub for both Southwestern Indiana and the...

before purchasing the contracts of that firm in 1879 and opened their own practise.