Background
Arthur H. Brockie was born in 1875 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Arthur H. Brockie was born in 1875 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
At the age of twenty he graduated in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and shortly after was successful in winning the Stewardson Traveling Scholarship, with the privilege of two years of study in European cities.
Upon his return in 1898 Mr. Brockie found employment in the office of Cope & Stewardson, attaining skill in draftsmanship during the four years he remained with the firm. In 1904 he established practice under the firm name of Brockie & Hastings, and continued in partnership with T. Mitchell Hastings until 1918. The chief works of ihe firm in that period were hospital buildings, including Rust Hospital at 1 hiladelphia, Maternity Building at the Bryn Mawr Hospital, and the burgical Pavilion, University of Pennsylvania Hospital at West Philadelphia.
Following the close of the first World War Mr. Brockie opened his own oHice in the city and continued active in practice until a few years prior to his decease when he retired to his home at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. His major works were hospitals and various business and public buildings of which should be cited the following: Germantown Hospital; Cooper Hospital at Camden, N. J.; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1921; Germantown Trust Company 1921; Corn Exchange, and the Institute of Mental Hygiene in Philadelphia.
He had been a member of the Philadelphia Chapter since 1901, and in 1931 was advanced to Institute Fellowship.