Background
John Scott was born in 1850 in Ipswich, England, United Kingdom.
John Scott was born in 1850 in Ipswich, England, United Kingdom.
With a younger brother, Arthur (d.1930) he set up an office in Detroit under the firm name of John Scott & Company and for many years participated actively in work in the city. Best known examples of the firm's executed designs include the old Cadillac Hotel, Wayne County Building, Receiving Hospital, and many of Detroit's finest homes, as well as industrial and commercial buildings elsewhere in the state.
During the 1920’s the Scott brothers moved to new headquarters in the Dime Savings Bank Building and continued practice until 1926 when John retired to spend his remaining years at his home in Rochester, Mich. Meantime Arthur Scott left for Canada and lived at Windsor, Ontario, until his death in 1930.
In 1877 he was elected a member of the old Western Association of Architects.