Background
William B. Stratton was born in 1865 in Ithaca, New York, United States.
William B. Stratton was born in 1865 in Ithaca, New York, United States.
He acquired an early education in Elmira, and in 1881 graduated B.S. in Architecture at Cornell University.
Mr. Stratton removed to Detroit, and in 1890 formed a partnership with Frank C. Baldwin. Following twenty years of practice under the firm name of Stratton & Baldwin, in 1916 he joined the office of C. B. J. Snyder, and when that association was terminated after a decade, Mr. Stratton opened a new office in the Marquette Building where he carried on work under his own name until 1913 and his retirement to private life.
During his many years in architecture Mr. Stratton acquired a wide and diversified practice. In Detroit he designed the Straus Laboratory (1909); Bowen Library (1919); Women’s City Club (1923); Campbell Library, the Maybury Sanitarium, and a number of private homes in the city and suburbs. In addition he was chosen architect of the General Hospital in Wyandotte, Mich., and other similar buildings in cities through the state.
Mr. Stratton was a member and past-president of the Detroit Chapter, A.I.A., elected to Institute Fellowship in 1910.