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John Scott was born in May 10, 1851 in Ipswich, England to William Scott, an architect. In 1853 the family immigrated to Canada, settling in Windsor, Ontario in 1858, where William Scott established an architectural practice. John Scott was educated in the public schools and at the age of sixteen began the study of civil engineering and in the early 1870s was engineer in charge of the Detroit and Bay City Railroad. Circa 1873, after its completion, he joined his father's office in Detroit, where he had moved it in 1872. He became his father's partner in 1874 in the firm of William Scott & Son, which became William Scott & Company in 1875 when they were joined by another son, Arthur H. Scott.

In 1887, after being chosen architects of the new Marquette Branch Prison, the Scotts established a branch office at Marquette to supervise the work under the management of D. Fred Charlton, an employee since 1885. In January 1889 Charlton was made a partner in the Marquette office, which was renamed Scott & Charlton. William Scott died June 30, 1889 in Detroit, and the Scott brothers formed a new partnership with Louis Kamper, an employee since 1888. The partnerships of Scott, Kamper & Scott and Scott & Charlton were both dissolved in 1890, with the Scott brothers continuing under the name of John Scott & Company in Detroit.

Architectural works

=William Scott & Company, 1875–1889=

  • Wayne County Savings Bank Building, W Congress St, Detroit (1876, demolished)W. Hawkins Ferry, [https://archive.org/details/thebuildingofdet0000whaw/page/n5/mode/2up The Buildings of Detroit: A History] (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980): 80.
  • Chippewa County Courthouse, 319 Court St, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (1877, NRHP 1984)Kathryn Bishop Eckert, [https://archive.org/details/buildingsofmichi0000ecke_f7z6/page/n9/mode/2up Buildings of Michigan] (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 549.
  • Ann Arbor Central Fire Station, 220 E Ann St, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1883, NRHP 1972)Kathryn Bishop Eckert, [https://archive.org/details/buildingsofmichi0000ecke_f7z6/page/n9/mode/2up Buildings of Michigan] (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 139.
  • Simon J. Murphy Sr. house, Woodward Ave and Putnam St, Detroit (1887, demolished)W. Hawkins Ferry, [https://archive.org/details/thebuildingofdet0000whaw/page/n5/mode/2up The Buildings of Detroit: A History] (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980): 92.
  • Marquette Branch Prison, 1960 US Hwy 41, Marquette, Michigan (1889, NRHP 1977)Kathryn Bishop Eckert, [https://archive.org/details/buildingsofmichi0000ecke_f7z6/page/n9/mode/2up Buildings of Michigan] (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 512-513.

=Scott, Kamper & Scott, 1889–1890=

  • Col. Frank J. Hecker House, 5510 Woodward Ave, Detroit (1892, NRHP 1971)W. Hawkins Ferry, [https://archive.org/details/thebuildingofdet0000whaw/page/n5/mode/2up The Buildings of Detroit: A History] (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980): 227.

=John Scott & Company, 1890–1926=

  • Houghton National Bank Building, 600 Shelden Ave, Houghton, Michigan (1889)Kathryn Bishop Eckert, [https://archive.org/details/buildingsofmichi0000ecke_f7z6/page/n9/mode/2up Buildings of Michigan] (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 473.
  • Hubbell Hall, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan (1889, demolished 1968)Kathryn Bishop Eckert, [https://archive.org/details/buildingsofmichi0000ecke_f7z6/page/n9/mode/2up Buildings of Michigan] (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 475.
  • John Scott house, 84 E Ferry St, Detroit (1892)Kathryn Bishop Eckert, [https://archive.org/details/buildingsofmichi0000ecke_f7z6/page/n9/mode/2up Buildings of Michigan] (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 91.
  • Charles Lang Freer House,{{efn|name=Freer|Designed by Wilson Eyre, architect, with John Scott & Company, supervising architects.}} 71 E Ferry St, Detroit (1893, NRHP 1971)Kathryn Bishop Eckert, [https://archive.org/details/buildingsofmichi0000ecke_f7z6/page/n9/mode/2up Buildings of Michigan] (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 90-91.
  • Wayne County Jail, Detroit (1897, demolished)W. Hawkins Ferry, [https://archive.org/details/thebuildingofdet0000whaw/page/n5/mode/2up The Buildings of Detroit: A History] (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980): 211.
  • Wayne County Building, 600 Randolph St, Detroit (1902, NRHP 1975)W. Hawkins Ferry, [https://archive.org/details/thebuildingofdet0000whaw/page/n5/mode/2up The Buildings of Detroit: A History] (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980): 210.
  • Arthur H. Buhl house, 1116 Iroquois Ave, Detroit (1909)Kathryn Bishop Eckert, [https://archive.org/details/buildingsofmichi0000ecke_f7z6/page/n9/mode/2up Buildings of Michigan] (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 109.
  • Harry N. Torrey house, Lake Shore Rd, Grosse Point, Michigan (1913, demolished 1960)W. Hawkins Ferry, [https://archive.org/details/thebuildingofdet0000whaw/page/n5/mode/2up The Buildings of Detroit: A History] (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980): 223.
  • Eastern Market shed three, Russell and Division Sts, Detroit (1922)Randall Fogelman and Lisa E. Rush, [https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/dRT5AAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Images of America: Detroit's Historic Eastern Market] (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2013): 18-19.

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