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This is a list of properties and historic districts in Missouri on the National Register of Historic Places. There are NRHP listings in all of Missouri's 114 counties and the one independent city of St. Louis.
Henry Wright (1878-1936), was a planner, architect, and major proponent of the garden city, an idea characterized by green belts and created by Sir Ebenezer Howard.
Louis Singleton Curtiss was a Canadian-born American architect. Notable as a pioneer of the curtain wall design, he was once described as "the Frank Lloyd Wright of Kansas City". In his career, he designed more than 200 buildings, though not all were realized. There are approximately 30 examples of his work still extant in Kansas City, Missouri where Curtiss spent his career, including his best known design, the Boley Clothing Company Building. Other notable works can be found throughout the American midwest.
Barnett, Haynes & Barnett was a prominent architectural firm based in St. Louis, Missouri. Their credits include many familiar St. Louis landmarks, especially a number related to the local Catholic church. Their best-known building is probably the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. A number of the firm's works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Albert Bartleton Groves, also known as A.B. Groves or Albert B. Groves, was an American architect who practiced in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
Keene & Simpson was an American architectural firm of partners Arthur Samuel Keene (1875–1966) and Leslie B. Simpson from 1909–1955, after which it became Keene and Simpson and Murphy.
Albert Oscar Clark (1858–1935), commonly known as A.O. Clark, was an American architect who worked in Arkansas in the early 1900s.
Helfensteller, Hirsch & Watson was an early twentieth-century American architectural firm from St. Louis, Missouri. It succeeded Hirsch and Helfensteller which had been founded in 1903. The firm's partners included Ernest Helfensteller, William Albert Hirsch and Jesse N. Watson. The firm quickly gained prominence with its 1912 design of the Moolah Temple in St. Louis.
Joseph A. Shannon (1859-1934), known in at least one source as John A. Shannon, was an architect in Devils Lake, North Dakota.
The Mesker Brothers Iron Works and George L. Mesker & Co. were competing manufacturers and designers of ornamental sheet-metal facades and cast iron storefront components from the 1880s through the mid-twentieth century. The Mesker Brothers Iron Works was based in St. Louis, Missouri, and was operated by brothers Bernard and Frank Mesker. The George L. Mesker Company was operated by a third brother, George L. Mesker, and was based in Evansville, Indiana. The Mesker brothers were the sons of John Mesker who operated a stove business in Evansville and later galvanized iron for buildings. The three brothers learned their iron-working skills from their father.
Mortimer B. Cleveland 19 Nov 1882-23 May 1979 was an American architect of Waterloo, Iowa, and was "one of Waterloo's most prominent architects".
Edmond Jacques Eckel (1845–1934) was an architect in Missouri. One of his firms was Eckel & Mann. Eckel's name has been spelled with variations including Edmund rather than Edmond and with Jacques spelled as Jaques.
Charles Christian Hook (1870–1938) was an American architect. He was also the founder of FreemanWhite, Inc. a Haskell Company (1892), the oldest practicing firm in North Carolina and currently the 11th oldest architecture firm in the United States.
Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Nordhoff was an architectural firm in Toledo, Ohio. The firm or its individual partners designed a number of buildings that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their architecture.
Croft & Boerner was an architectural and engineering firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It was a partnership of Francis Boerner (1889–1936) and Ernest Croft (1889–1959). Several of their works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their architecture.
The Wydown-Forsyth District, in Clayton and St. Louis, Missouri, is a 122 acres (49 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is roughly bounded by Forsyth, Skinker Blvd., Fauquier and Wydown Terrace Dr., and University Lane. The listing included 236 contributing buildings.
Walter C. Root was an American architect. He designed many buildings including the Francis and Harriet Baker House, a historic site listed on the National Register of Historic Places. With George M. Siemens, he designed Dyche Hall at University of Kansas, now the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and the Scarritt Building in Kansas City, Missouri. He founded the Root & Siemens architectural firm based in Kansas City, Missouri.
George William Hellmuth (1870-1955) was an American architect based in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Carrswold Historic District is a historic district in Clayton, Missouri. The district comprises a subdivision patterned after the garden city movement containing 23 single-family homes built between 1922 and 1924, which are located on Carrswold Drive on the north side of Wydown Boulevard. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The Brentmoor Park, Brentmoor and Forest Ridge District is a historic district comprising three private subdivisions in the city of Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, that were platted in 1910, 1911, and 1913, respectively by Henry Wright. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
