Edwin Lundie was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on October 13, 1886. He attended grade school in Cedar Rapids from 1892 to 1899 and continued his education in Salem, North Dakota, after his family moved there while he was in high school. In 1904, Lundie came to St. Paul where he entered the firm of Gilbert andamp; Holyoke as an unpaid apprentice. After Gilbert moved to New York in 1906, Lundie remained in Thomas Holyoke's employ until 1911, when he joined the office staff of Emmanuel Masqueray as a draftsman. While working for Masqueray, Lundie also attended his employer's atelier (1911-1914) and was active in the Gargoyle Club, a local training and social organization of architects.
Following Masqueray's death in 1917, Lundie formed a partnership with Fred Slifer and Frank Abrahamson, two other draftsmen in the firm, to close out the unfinished commissions then in the office. By 1919, these had been completed and the partnership was amicably dissolved. Lundie opened his own office and Slifer and Abrahamson went into partnership as a separate firm. From 1919 until his death, Lundie maintained an office in Cass Gilbert's Endicott Building in St. Paul and specialized in prestigious residences for many of the city's wealthy citizens. Lundie died in St. Paul on January 8, 1972.
From the guide to the Edwin H. Lundie Papers, 1914-71, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Northwest Architectural Archives, Manuscripts Division [naa])
