John H. Felt
Illustration — Administration building at Northwest Missouri State University John H. Felt (1867, Indiana – 1938, Missouri) was an architect who designed many churches, schools, and government buildings in Missouri and Kansas. He was born in Indiana and moved to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1898 where he formed J.H. Felt & Company.
John H. Felt

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- 1867
- Died
- 1938
- Nationality
- United States
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- architect
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Illustration — Administration building at Northwest Missouri State University John H. Felt (1867, Indiana – 1938, Missouri) was an architect who designed many churches, schools, and government buildings in Missouri and Kansas. He was born in Indiana and moved to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1898 where he formed J.H. Felt & Company.
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In 1937 he moved to Kansas City where he was senior at the firm Felt, Dunham & Kriehn, and in 1936 following Mr. Dunham's withdrawal, continued under the name of Felt & Kriehn. Among the buildings he designed are the Administration Buildings at Northwest Missouri State University and Emporia State University and the Boone County, Missouri Courthouse. In 1904 he became publisher of Modern Architecture magazine.
Felt has multiple structures in two historic districts, a city hall and two schools on the National Register of Historic Places. • Ref — Property — Address — City — Listed • 02000817 — Krug Park Place Historic District — Roughly bounded by St. Joseph Ave., Myrtle St., Clark St., and Magnolia Ave., — St. Joseph, Missouri — 2002-08-01 • 04000088 — Hicklin School (Lexington High School) — MO 24 — Lexington, Missouri — 2004-02-24 • 85000455 — Greenfield Courthouse Square Historic District — Roughly bounded by North, Hinchman, South and Pennsylvania Sts. — Greenfield, Indiana — 1985-03-07 • 79001362 — City Hall — MO 111 — Forest City, Missouri — 1979-06-27 • 96001381 — George Washington Carver School — 909 Westminster — Fulton, Missouri — 1996-12-02 • 08001208 — Charles Barr House — 25 W. Walnut St. — Greenfield, Indiana — 2008-12-22
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- 1.New Age Publishing Co. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects Deceased. 1956.
- 2.http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/uedivis/ue6009.htm Boone County Courthouse History
- 3.The Book of Missourians by M. L. Van Nada 1906 accessed via kchistory.org.
- 4.Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) Elsie Rathburn Withey 1956 access via kchistory.org.
- 5.2010a.
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