Introduction
Jarvis Hunt (August 6, 1863 - June 15, 1941) was a renowned Chicago architect who designed a wide array of buildings, including train stations, suburban estates, industrial buildings, clubhouses and other structures.
Biography
Hunt was born in Weathersfield, Vermont, and graduated from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He had a passion for golf and qualified for the 1904 Olympics Golf Team, but failed to make the cut. Hunt later designed the clubhouses of several clubs including the National Golf Links of America Golf Course, of which he was a founding member, and the Chicago Golf Club.
Most of his projects, however, are associated with the United States Midwest, including the Kansas City Union Station and the Joliet Union Station. Hunt based his architectural firm in Chicago's Monadnock Building.
Hunt retired to his home in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1927. He died on June 15, 1941 in St. Petersburg.
Family life
Hunt was the son of attorney, farmer and photography pioneer Colonel Leavitt Hunt and his wife Katherine (Jarvis) Hunt, and was a nephew of noted New York City architect Richard Morris Hunt and his brother, Boston painter William Morris Hunt. He was the grandson of U.S. Congressman Jonathan Hunt.
Hunt and his wife, the former M. Louise Coleman, had two children: Louisa Hunt McMurtry and Jarvis Hunt, Jr. Jarvis Hunt and his wife later divorced, and he was awarded custody of his two children.
Projects
- Vermont Building, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
- Arbor Lodge, Nebraska City, Nebraska, 1903
- Chicago and Alton Railroad depot, Marshall, Missouri, 1906
- Naval Station Great Lakes, 39 original buildings, 1903-1927
- Union Pacific headquarters, Omaha, Nebraska, 1910
- 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
- Chicago Golf Club Clubhouse, Wheaton, Illinois
- Bamberger's Department Store, Newark, New Jersey
- National Golf Links of America Clubhouse, Southampton, New York
- Walden, Estate of Cyrus H. McCormick II, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1896 (main house demolished, 1950s)
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