Subseries 5 - Main Building

Andrew Cobb was a notable architect from Nova Scotia, Canada. Born in 1876 in Brooklyn, New York, he moved to Nova Scotia with his mother, a Nova Scotian, and sister when he was 14-years-old. The family lived in Kings County, and Cobb attended Horton Academy and Acadia University. He went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study architecture, and then the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, during which time he travelled around Italy. In 1909, he started an architectural practice in Halifax with Sydney Dumaresq. Notably, they designed the Memorial Tower in Sir Sanford Fleming Park, also known as the Dingle, in 1911. By 1912, the two men parted ways and began their own firms, though they remained friends. Cobb went on to design many important residential, institutional, and commercial buildings in Halifax and Wolfville, Nova Scotia; and in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland and Labrador. These included buildings at Dalhousie University, such as the Science Building, the MacDonald Memorial Library, and the Law School (now the Faculty Club); buildings at the University of King's College; Victoria General Hospital on Tower Road in Halifax; buildings for Acadia University, including Emmerson Hall and Horton House; and staff houses for Newfoundland Pulp and Paper Company. He was elected fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1940. He was killed in a bus accident in 1943 in Halifax, at the age of 68.