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John Walter Wood was an American architect and specialist in airport design from 1931, and partner in the New York City firm of Poor & Wood, Airport Contractors Ltd. Born in Short Hills, N.J. on 5 June 1900, he possessed formidable educational credentials, graduating from Harvard Univ. in 1922, attending Oxford Univ. in 1923, and becoming a finalist for the Rome Prize in Architecture in 1926. He also studied at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris in 1928. In Canada he can be credited with the design of a significant modernist residence located on Niagara Island, Ontario, in the Thousand Islands district of the St. Lawrence River. Designed in 1930 for Sherman Pratt, this striking landmark was one of the first reinforced concrete houses built in Ontario (Architecture [New York], lxv, Feb. 1932, 63-9, illus.; Arts & Decoration [New York], xxxix, Oct. 1933, 16-18, illus. & descrip.; Pierre du Prey, Ah Wilderness! Resort Architecture in the Thousand Islands, 2004, 106-10, illus.). Three years later Wood was again commissioned by Pratt to add another structure, a ferro-concrete boathouse located on the south side of the island (Architectural Record, [New York], lxix, Jan. 1936, 37-42, illus. & descrip.). A tennis shelter for the complex was built at the same time (Architectural Record [New York], lxix, March 1936, 198, illus.). In the United States, Wood designed the outdoor aquarium at Marine Studios (now Marineland) in St. Augustine, Florida, 1937-38, and a technical school for the American Air Force in Denver. He was an acknowledged authority on airport design, and author of Airports - Some Elements of Design & Future Development (1940), and Airports and Air Traffic (1948). He later taught at the Department of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana, and died there on 24 November 1958 (obit. New York Times, 27 Nov. 1958, 29; biog. Who Was Who in America, iii, 1951-1960, 936)

Architects Whitney Warren (1864-1943) and Charles D. Wetmore (1866-1941) are perhaps best known today for their monumental Beaux-Arts Grand Central Terminal in New York City (1904-1912). Their practice, however, included a diverse catalog of building types and architectural styles across the United States and internationally. Partners for more than three decades, their success was built on the far-reaching commercial and social networks that grew from the rapid growth of American cities during the Gilded Age, with long-standing commissions from many of America's most prominent businessmen and families. Educated in architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1887 and 1894, Whitney Warren maintained a life-long devotion to European classicism, especially in its French variants, and principles of Beaux-Arts planning. Shortly after returning from Paris, Warren's competition entry to design the Newport (Rhode Island) Country Club received first place, and his long career as an architect to New York's society began in earnest. With the subsequent commission for the New York Yacht Club's new headquarters in 1898, Warren invited Harvard-educated Charles Wetmore--lawyer, businessman, and real estate developer--to establish a joint partnership to complete the club and to undertake other architectural projects. From 1898 until retiring in 1931, Warren and Wetmore received multiple commissions from members of their prominent familal and social circles, as well as from leading hoteliers, transportation magnates, and developers, often sharing in the investment as stockholders. In addition to Grand Central Terminal (in partnership with architects Reed & Stem) and the New York Yacht Club, among the firm's most significant commissions were expansions to the William K. Vanderbilt Estate, "Idle Hour" on Long Island; the Ritz, Vanderbilt, Ambassador and Biltmore hotels in Manhattan and across the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean; opulent Manhattan townhouses for relatives of the Vanderbilts and Astors; elite apartment buildings on Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue; country clubs and tennis and squash courts in Tuxedo Park, Long Island, South Carolina, and Massachusetts; and expansive estates in suburban New Jersey, the Hudson River Valley, and on Long Island. Other major commercial and institutional commissions included the Seamen's Church Institute, Steinway Hall, the Heckscher building, the New Aeolian Hall, and the Chelsea Piers complex, all in Manhattan. In the 1910s and 1920s, Warren & Wetmore were also deeply involved in designing railroad stations and terminals along the New York Central Line and for various Canadian railroad lines, an outgrowth of their association with Reed & Stem. After World War I, Whitney Warren also received considerable acclaim for his carefully conceived reconstruction of the war-damaged library for the University of Louvain in Belgium.

Power & Son, an architectural firm in Kingston, Ontario, was formed as a partnership of John Power and his son, Joseph Power, with Thomas Power joining later. The firm continued operations under this name beyond John's death in 1882 until they were joined by Colin Drever.

Lily Inglis, was born in Milan, Italy in 1926. She received a Diploma in Architecture from the School of Architecture, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1952 and became an Associate Royal Institute of British Architects that same year. In 1957 she received a Certificate in Landscape Design, University College, London University, England. Between 1962 and 1963 she did a practical training period with Kingston architect, Wilfred Sorensen before being admitted as a member of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1963.She had her own practice in Kingston between 1963 and 1965 and had an interior architectural practice in Philadelphia, P.A., U.S.A. from 1965 to 1968. Between 1968 and 1983 she was the sole principal of Lily Inglis Architect working mainly in Downtown Kingston with heritage buildings. Inglis died in 2010.