Edwin J. Schruers

Edwin J. Schruer (1903-1994) American architect and occasional artist. He was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and received a degree in architecture from Allegheny College. He later taught at Harvard, and in 1935, while there, produced a pictorial map of the campus, A Prospect of Harvard University and of Radcliffe College. In 1938, he designed the set for the W.P.A. Federal Theatre production of George Bernard Shaw’s On the Rocks on Broadway. From 1940 to 1945 Schruers served as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. He then spent several years traveling and living in South America, eventually settling in Berkeley, California, where he had his own architectural firm.