In 1938, two Montana architects and fishing buddies named Ralph Cushing and Everett Terrell were sitting around a campfire on a fishing expedition. That night, they decided to open one of the country’s first integrated architectural and engineering firms.
With its corporate office in Billings, Mont., the company today is called CTA Architects Engineers across most of the U.S. and Cushing Terrell Architecture Inc. in Canada and the state of Washington. CTA has more than 400 employees in 17 offices across North America, and the staff encompasses 20 disciplines, including architecture; civil, electrical, mechanical and environmental engineering; interior design; and landscape architecture.