| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR2566 | | TITLE: | HIP Architects Fonds | | CREATOR: | HIP Architects | | DATE RANGE: | [ca. 1930] | | EXTENT: | 4 architectural drawings | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | In 1938, John Ulric Rule (1904 - 1978) and Gordon K. Wynn (1910 - 1994) formed an architecture firm in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1929, John Rule's brother, Peter Leitch Rule (1913 - 1964) joined the firm and the firm became Wynn Rule and Wynn. The firm opened a Calgary office in 1945, but closed the office in 1986. The Edmonton office constitutes one of the longest running architectural offices in Edmonton. The firm has produced designs for projects such as Foster McGarvey Funeral Home (1938), Varscona Theatre (1940), and the Alberta Government Telephone Building (1953). The firm also designed the Petroleum Building (1951), Spruce Cliff Apartments (1953), Trend House (1954), Elveden Centre (1959-64), and MacMahon Stadium (1960) among other projects in Calgary.
The firm won numerous awards, including Alberta Association of Architects awards for the Alberta Agriculture Building (1983), Edmonton Centre (1978), Maclean Block renovation (1979) and Weinlos Elementary School (1985) and a City of Edmonton Architectural Award for the Commonwealth Aquatic Centre (1978). Rule Wynn and Rule, Calgary was superseded by Rule Wynn Hames & Partners, W.G. Hames Associates, and Hames & Timleck Architects & Engineers. Rule Wynn and Rule, Edmonton was superseded by the following firms: Rule Wynn Forbes Lord & Partners, Wynn Forbes Lord Feldberg Schmidt, Wynn Hames Forbes Lord Feldberg Schmidt, Forbes Lord Feldberg Schmidt Croll, Schmidt Feldberg Croll Henderson, Henderson Inglis, Henderson Inglis Partridge, and HIP Architects.
| | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | In 1968, R.O. Harrison, Director of the Provincial Museum and Archives of Alberta donated the material to the Provincial Archives of Alberta. It's unknown how R.O. Harrison obtained the material. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of three architectural plans for the Edmonton Club buildings dating from ca. 1930 and produced by HIP architects, formerly Rule Wynn and Rule. | | ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: | Please see the Wynn Rule and Wynn, Edmonton Fonds and the Wynn Rule and Wynn, Calgary Fonds at the Canadian Architectural Archives at the University of Calgary. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history/biographical sketch sourced from: http://www.encyclopediecanadienne.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009551 (Accessed June 22, 2008).
For more information on Rule Wynn and Rule please see, Fraser, Linda M. The Rule Wynn and Rule (Edmonton) Architectural Drawings: An Inventory of the Collection at the Canadian Architectural Archives at the University of Calgary Library, Kathy E. Zimon Ed., Canadian Archival Series No. 3, 1997.
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