Merritt J. 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 École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the left bank in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6th arrondissement. The school has a history spanning more than 350 years,...

, Paris

Paris

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. Reid and brother James W.

James W. Reid (architect)

James William 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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Reid and brother Merritt J...

 worked for a time at the architectural firm of Boyd and Brickley, 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 firm.