Résumé

Draftsman, Bebb and Mendel, Architects, Seattle, WA, 1902. (See Polk's Seattle Directory Company's Seattle City Directory, 1902, p. 748.)

Partner, Kerr and [Roy D.] Rogers, Architects, Seattle, WA, 1903-1905. Both Kerr and Rogers worked in the Bebb and Mendel office in 1902. In 1903, Kerr and Rogers worked in Room #12 of the Hancock Building, but had relocated to Room #5 by 1905. (See Polk's Seattle Directory Company's Seattle City Directory, 1905, p. 713.) Neither Robert C. Kerr nor his business partner Roy D. Rogers lived in Seattle in 1900.

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects, Washington State Chapter, c. 1906.

Member, AIA, Washington Chapter, Committee on Papers, Seattle, WA, 1906-1907. (See "Washington State Chapter A.I.A.," American Architect and Building News, 01/06/1906, p. vii. )

Relocation

Robert C. Kerr was born in Scotland, c. 1864. He immigrated to the US in about 1892, according to the 1910 US Census.

He rented a room at 1200 Marion Street in 1903. (See Polk's Seattle Directory Company's Seattle City Directory, 1903, p. 693.)

The architect resided at 1117 3rd Avenue in 1905. (See Polk's Seattle Directory Company's Seattle City Directory, 1905, p. 713.)

Kerr lived in a renting in an apartment house at 1423 Summit Avenue in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood in 1910. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Seattle Ward 7, King, Washington; Roll: T624_1660; Page: 5a; Enumeration District: 0130; FHL microfilm: 1375673, accessed 08/01/2023.)

In 1905, Kerr resided in a hotel building at 1117 3rd Avenue in Seattle. (See Polk's Seattle City Directory, p. 712.)