Name: | Thomas Rutherford |
Designation: | |
Born: | 7 February 1882 |
Died: | 30 November 1958 |
Bio Notes: | Thomas Rutherford was born on 7 February 1882 in Cleish, Kinross-shire, the son of Thomas Rutherford, master joiner and his wife, Janet Reilly. He commenced his articles at the early age of fourteen in the office of T Hyslop Ure of Dunfermline, and remained for a year as assistant after completing his apprenticeship. He then spent a year 'at competition work in Glasgow & Edinburgh' before returning to Dunfermline to join Andrew Muirhead as assistant in 1904. Muirhead died in 1908 and Rutherford, by then his principal assistant, inherited the practice, continuing as sole partner under the new title of Muirhead & Rutherford as a token of respect for his former employer.
He was admitted LRIBA in late 1931, his proposers being George Donaldson Macniven, John Wilson and James Lochhead, and was elevated to Fellow at the end of the following year, proposed by Wilson, Robert Stirling Reid and Alexander Lorne Campbell. By that time he had carried out numerous housing schemes for county and burgh councils in Fife and Kinross-shire amounting to some 1000 houses in total, as well as villas, bungalows, cottages, tenements, schools and commercial premises.
Rutherford died from chronic bronchitis and heart failure on 30 November 1958. |
This was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details): |
| Date started | Building name | Town, district or village | Island | City or county | Country | Notes |
| 1905 | Northern Hospital | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Extended the original poorhouse building - as chief assistant to Andrew Muirhead and after Muirhead's illness/death was in charge of the job |
| 1905 | Shops and houses, Bridge Street | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | As assistant |
| 1907 | Cemetery | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Gate lodge and entrance lodge at new portion of cemetery |
| 1907 | Kelty Infant School | Kelty | | Fife | Scotland | Additions |
| 1908 | Burnside Inn | Kinglassie | | Fife | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1908 | Houses for Mrs Dick | Lochgelly | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1908 | Property of Ex-Provost Laing, High Street | Cowdenbeath | | Fife | Scotland | Alterations and additions |
| After 1908 | Bakery for Cowdenbeath Co-operative Society | Cowdenbeath | | Fife | Scotland | |
| After 1908 | Bruce's Bakery and Tea Rooms | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| After 1908 | City Arms Hotel | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| After 1908 | Four housing schemes for Dunfermline District Committee | | | Fife | Scotland | |
| After 1908 | Hotel | Hill of Beath | | Fife | Scotland | Alterations |
| After 1908 | Housing scheme for Cowdenbeath Burgh Council | Cowdenbeath | | Fife | Scotland | |
| After 1908 | Housing scheme for Dunfermline Burgh Council | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| After 1908 | Housing scheme for Kinross County Council | | | Kinross-shire | Scotland | |
| After 1908 | Housing scheme for Kinross Town Council | Kinross | | Kinross-shire | Scotland | |
| After 1908 | Kelty Public School | Kelty | | Fife | Scotland | |
| After 1908 | Kinross Public School | Kinross | | Kinross-shire | Scotland | Probably completed in partnership |
| After 1908 | Shops for Cowdenbeath Co-operative Society | Cowdenbeath | | Fife | Scotland | |
| After 1908 | Shops for Mr W Hodge | Cowdenbeath | | Fife | Scotland | |
| After 1908 | Six Miners' Welfare Institutes | | | Fife? | Scotland | |
| 1909 | Crown Tavern Buildings | Lochgelly | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1909 | House and Shop, Townhill Road | Dundfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Sole partner, Andrew Muirhead having died |
| 1909 | Shop and dwelling house, Townhill Road | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1911 | Licensed premises for H H Porter | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1912 | Commercial buildings, 6-12 New Row | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1912 | Gas offices and showrooms | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Won competition to secure job |
| 1912 | Parish Council Offices, Maygate | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Won competition to secure job |
| 1912 | Shops and houses, Bridge Street | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Remodelled including new shopfront |
| 1913 | Warehouse for Fraser & Carmichael | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1915 | Kinema Picture House | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1919 | Brucefield Housing Scheme | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | To design 30 three- apartment houses and 20 four-apartment houses |
| After 1919 | Post-War Housing Competition designs | | | | | Premiated competition design (but not winning design) |
| 1921 | Dunfermline Abbey | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Repairs to roof of tower |
| 1922 | Local Authority Housing Scheme, Stenhouse Street | Cowdenbeath | | Fife | Scotland | 16 houses |
| 1923 | Cowdenbeath Co-operative Society Premises, Broad Street | Cowdenbeath | | Fife | Scotland | Reconstruction |
| 1925 | Miners' Welfare Institute | Lumphinnans | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1928 | Dunfermline Cottage Hospital | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Large new wing at rear of Priory House (built 1835) fronting New Row |
| 1928 | Pittencrieff Park, South East Gateway | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1929 | British Linen Bank | St Andrews | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1931 | Forty houses for Fife County Council | Kelty | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1932 | Dunfermline Cottage Hospital | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Infectious diseases wing (fever hospital) |
| 1932 | Housing scheme for Fife County Council | Crossgates | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1932 | Miners' Welfare Institute | Auchterderran | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1932 | Miners' Welfare Institute, Bowhill | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1933 | Carnegie Hall | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Linked to Music Institute which was adapted from house called Benachie. |
| 1934 | Dunfermline Maternity Hospital, St Leonards Hill | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1937 | Queen's Hall | Charlestown | | Fife | Scotland | Reconstruction |