Miles Brittelle

Brittellle was born in Imperial, Nebraska, on April 13, 1894, and later moved to Colorado. He served in World War I with the 115th Trench Mortar Battery. After the war, he trained as an architect, working in firms in Denver and Pueblo, Colorado. In 1926, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico.[1]

In Albuquerque, Brittelle worked in the firm of George M. Williamson, then formed a local partnership with the El Paso based firm Trost & Trost from 1931 to 1932.[2] His most notable work with Trost & Trost was the El Fidel Hotel in Albuquerque, which opened in 1932.[3]

In 1931, when New Mexico started requiring licensing for architects, Governor Arthur Seligman appointed Brittelle to the first Board of Architectural Examiners in New Mexico and he was elected chairman.[4] He held New Mexico architect license number 2.[1] He also served as president of the New Mexico chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

In 1933, he started his own firm, Brittelle & Wilson,[5] which became Brittelle & Ginner in 1934.[6] Brittelle and Ginner were "among the earliest architects working in the Modernist movement" in Albuquerque.[7]

Arthur Dekker, a University of Kansas graduate in architectural engineering, became a partner at Brittelle & Ginner in 1954.[7]

Gordon Ferguson worked at Brittelle and Ginner and later opened his own office in 1942.[7]

Brittelle died on January 7, 1970, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Park in Albuquerque.[8]

His son, William Miles Brittelle, Jr., was also an architect.[1]

Works include (with shared attribution indicated):

• With George M. Williamson:
  • Old St. Joseph Hospital (1930), Albuquerque. NRHP-listed.
  • President's House (1930), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. NRHP-listed.
  • Springer Building (1930), Albuquerque. NRHP-listed.
• With Trost & Trost:
  • El Fidel Hotel (1932), Albuquerque[9]
• Brittelle & Wilson:
  • Occidental Life Building reconstruction (1934), Albuquerque. NRHP-listed.[10]
• Brittelle & Ginner:
  • Fitch Hall (1937), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico. NRHP-listed.
  • Central Receiving Building (1938), New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Alamogordo, New Mexico. NRHP-listed.
  • Sunset Mausoleum (1961), Albuquerque[7]

The papers of the firm are archived with the Center for Southwest Research, at the University of New Mexico, as "Brittelle, Ginner and Associates Architectural Drawings and Plans".[7]