Jarvis Hunt

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.

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]

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]

• 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]

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  Union Pacific Railroad Headquarters Building, Omaha, Nebraska
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  Indianapolis News Building, Indianapolis, Indiana
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  Union Station, Joliet, Illinois
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  Union Station in Kansas City
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  Commerce Trust Building, Kansas City, Missouri
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  Newark Museum
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  Hecht's Department Store, Washington, D.C.
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  Bamberger's Department Store, Newark, New Jersey
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  National Golf Links of America

• "JARV1S HUNT; Architect Erected the Vermont Building at '93 Chicago Fair". New York Times. June 17, 1941. Retrieved August 10, 2008.

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• Jarvis Hunt at Olympedia