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American architect
Jarvis Hunt (August 6, 1863 - June 15, 1941) was a
Chicago architect
[1] who designed a wide array of buildings, including railroad stations, suburban estates, industrial buildings, clubhouses and other structures.
Biography
Hunt was born in
Weathersfield, Vermont ,
[2] and attended
Harvard University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
[3]
[4]
He had a passion for golf and qualified for the
1904 Olympics Golf Team , but failed to make the cut.
[5] Hunt later designed the clubhouses of several clubs including the
National Golf Links of America Golf Course, of which he was a founding member,
[6] and the
Chicago Golf Club .
[7]
Most of his projects are associated with the United States Midwest, including the
Kansas City Union Station and the
Joliet Union Station .
[8] Hunt based his architectural firm in Chicago's
Monadnock Building .
[9]
[10]
Hunt retired to his home in
St. Petersburg, Florida in 1927. He died on June 15, 1941, in St. Petersburg.
[7]
Family life
Mrs. Jarvis Hunt at a Chicago horse show, 1908
Hunt was the son of attorney, farmer and photography pioneer Colonel
Leavitt Hunt and his wife, Katherine (Jarvis) Hunt.
[11] His uncles were
New York City architect
Richard Morris Hunt
[12] and Boston painter
William Morris Hunt , and his grandfather was U.S. Congressman
Jonathan Hunt .
[13]
Hunt and his wife, the former M. Louise Coleman, had two children: Louisa Hunt McMurtry and Jarvis Hunt Jr.
[14] Jarvis Hunt and his wife later divorced, and he was awarded custody of his two children.
[15]
Projects
Vermont Building,
World's Columbian Exposition , 1893
Arbor Lodge ,
Nebraska City, Nebraska , 1903
Chicago and Alton Depot ,
Marshall, Missouri , 1906
[16]
Naval Station Great Lakes , 39 original buildings, 1903-1927
Union Pacific headquarters,
Omaha, Nebraska , 1910
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway depot,
Temple, Texas , 1910
[17]
Indianapolis News Building , 1910 (National Register)
Kansas City Star Building 1910 (National Register)
Joliet Union Station , 1911-13 (National Register)
16th Street Station ,
Oakland, California , 1912
Union Station (Kansas City) , 1913 (National Register)
Commerce Trust Building ,
Kansas City, Missouri , 1914 (National Register)
Ayers Bank Building ,
Jacksonville, Illinois , 1914 (National Register)
Union Station (Dallas) , 1914-1916 (National Register)
Newark Museum , 1923–26
Hecht's Department Store, Washington, D.C.
Chicago Golf Club Clubhouse,
Wheaton, Illinois
[18]
Bamberger's Department Store , now
165 Halsey Street ,
Newark, New Jersey
[19]
National Golf Links of America Clubhouse,
Southampton, New York
Walden , Estate of Cyrus H. McCormick II,
Lake Forest, Illinois , 1896 (main house demolished, 1950s)
[20]
Gallery
Union Pacific Railroad Headquarters Building, Omaha, Nebraska
Indianapolis News Building, Indianapolis, Indiana
Union Station in Kansas City
Commerce Trust Building, Kansas City, Missouri
Newark Museum
Hecht's Department Store, Washington, D.C.
Bamberger's Department Store, Newark, New Jersey
National Golf Links of America
References
^ Mincer, Jilian (8 February 1998).
"Restoring Historic Union Station in Kansas City" – via NYTimes.com.
^
"The Dream City: The Vermont Building" .
^
"Union Station, Kansas City, National Register of Historic Places Inventory, United States Department of the Interior" (PDF) .
^
"Jarvis Hunt, Architect and Member" . CGC Foundation . Retrieved 28 November 2020 .
^
"Jarvis Hunt" . Olympedia . Retrieved July 4, 2020 .
^
"The National Golf Links of America, The American Golfer, Vol. IV, No. 8, August 1910" (PDF) .
^
a
b
"Jarvis Hunt" . Sports Reference LLC. Archived from
the original on May 14, 2014. Retrieved May 14, 2014 .
^
"Jarvis Hunt, architect" . University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved May 14, 2014 .
^ Western architect (1917).
The Western Architect, Volumes 25-26 . Western architect, Incorporated. p. 72.
^ Chicago Architectural Club (1910).
Annual of the Chicago Architectural Club . Chicago Architectural Club. p. 1.
^
"Annals of Brattleboro, Vol. II, Chapter LXIX, Biographical Sketches" . Archived from
the original on 2011-01-29. Retrieved 2010-01-07 .
^
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Culture Comes to Kansas City by Kristie C. Wolferman - University of Missouri Press - 1993
ISBN
0-8262-0908-4
^
"Michigan Boulevard Building" . Designslinger. Retrieved May 10, 2014 .
^
"National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Commerce Trust Company Building, United States Department of the Interior" (PDF) .
^
"Archives: Chicago Tribune - JARVIS HUNT WINS CHILDREN" .
^ Gibbs, Donna M. (April 3, 1979).
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form" (PDF) . State Historic Preservation Office . Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved July 25, 2016 .
^
"Authentic Texas Spring 2019" . issuu . Retrieved 2019-04-07 .
^
"hunt" .
^ GmbH, Emporis.
"Macy's Department Store, Newark - 121302 - EMPORIS" . [
dead link ]
^
"Jarvis Hunt: works" .
Further reading
External links
Jarvis Hunt, architect, biography
Jarvis Hunt, list of works
Proposal for the Reorganization of the Railway Terminals of Chicago, An Address Before the City Club of Chicago, June 5, 1913, by Jarvis Hunt, Architect
The Colony at the Chicago Golf Club, Wheaten and unincorporated DuPage County (Jarvis Hunt, c. 1898–1916), Landmarks Illinois