Background
Hugh W. Guthrie was born in 1863 in Scotland, United Kingdom. He migrated to the U. S. when a youth.
Hugh W. Guthrie was born in 1863 in Scotland, United Kingdom. He migrated to the U. S. when a youth.
At the age of twenty he began his career in Milwaukee as draftsman in the office of Cornelius Leenhouts. Some years after he was taken into partnership, and under the firm name of Leenhouts & Guthrie engaged in active practice until 1935 when Mr. Leenhouts died. Among the most important works of the firm in Milwaukee with which Mr. Guthrie was particularly identified were the Y. M. C. A. Building; Grand Avenue Methodist Church; Blackstone Apartments, and the Milwaukee House of Correction, built in 1913