Henry W. Brinkman(1881–1949) was an American

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from

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who practiced from 1910 to 1947.

History

Henry Brinkman was born in

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on April 30, 1881. After emigrating to America, his family settled in Olpe, Kansas. He graduated from

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's school of architecture in 1907. He went into partnership with Stanley Hagen in 1925, which continued until Brinkman's retirement in 1948. He died on December 7, 1949. His Romanesque style St. Joseph Catholic Church in Damar, Kansas was built in 1912. Several of his works survive and are listed on the U.S.

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Notable works

Works (attribution) include: * Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 204 S. Cedar St., Grand Island, NE, NRHP-listed *

Hoisington High School Hoisington High School is a public high school in Hoisington, Kansas, operated by Hoisington USD 431 school district. The building was designed and constructed in 1940 in the Art-Deco style by architect Henry W. Brinkman and the school is curre ...

, 218 E 7th St., Hoisington, KS, NRHP-listed * St. Joseph Catholic Church, built 1912, 105 N. Oak St., Damar, KS, NRHP-listed *

St. Ludger Catholic Church St. Ludger Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic parish church in Germantown, Henry County, Missouri. The earliest parish record is from December 1832, when Dekon Tiof baptized John Freyrik, but the community was not assigned a permanen ...

, Jct. of MO K and High St. Montrose, MO, NRHP-listed * Seven Dolors Catholic Church, NE of the jct.of Juliette and Pierre Sts., Manhattan, KS, NRHP-listed *St. Ann Catholic Church,

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, built 1913.

References

20th-century American architects 1881 births 1949 deaths {{US-architect-stub