Joseph Florence Leitner (June 13, 1871 – June 2, 1930) was an American architect whose work includes several rail stations. In Columbia, South Carolina he worked for Charles Coker Wilson (beginning in 1901) for five years. Later he partnered with

William J. Wilkins (architect) William J. Wilkins was an American architect in Florence, South Carolina and in partnership with Joseph F. Leitner in Wilmington, North Carolina. Wilkins began his architectural career as a contractor and builder. He was inspector of buildings in ...

, first in

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(completing work in Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Florida, and Tennessee) and then in an office in Wilmington, North Carolina, where Leitner practiced for a decade. to form Leitner & Wilkins. His work included commercial, educational, fraternal religious, industrial, residential, and transportation buildings in colonial revival architecture,

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(especially gables,

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and

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styles. He ended his career in Florida. Leitner was born in Augusta, Georgia. His parents were Major Henry Daniel Leitner and Annie E. Jackson. He attended Emory College School of Technology, which later became Georgia Tech. He began his career in 1893 with

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. From 1909 through 1912, Leitner was the official architect for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company doing work in Wilmington, Rocky Mount, and Fayetteville and other locations. He served two terms as president of the North Carolina Architectural Association and was a member of the North Carolina Board of Architecture. He designed the

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in Rocky Mount and the

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. His biggest project in North Carolina were Wilmington's Union Station (demolished in 1970, although a community college building modelled on the original is planned) the

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. A cold storage plant was also planned. Other designs included the Winston-Salem Southbound Freight Depot. He designed the Thomas M. Emerson House (also known as the

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) in the

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neighborhood for ACL's president. Other work included: *

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(1910) *

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(1910) *

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(1911) *

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(1912-1913), as supervising architect, a brick Neoclassical Revival building at 206 Chestnut Street in Wilmington, North Carolina *

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, Wilmington (1913), on Market Street, in 1913 *

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(1914). Outside of Wilmington his work included: * Several schools including three in Fayetteville in 1911 and others in Charlotte * Columbus County Courthouse (1914-1915) in Whiteville *

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in Chadbourn, a Southern Colonial architecture residence *

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(1914) * Mitchell Elementary School, Charleston, SC He opened an office in Atlanta in 1917 with architect

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, who had worked in Jacksonville, Florida, and then joined the Atlanta firm of Edwards and Sayward ( William Augustus Edwards and

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). He may have worked in St. Petersburg, Florida in the firms of Leitner and Henson (1926) and Brown and Leitner (1927). By 1930 he was living in Tampa, Florida, where he designed bridges. He died June 2, 1930. He is buried in Harlem Memorial Cemetery in Harlem, Georgia . He was also assigned to design the C. & W. C. station in Georgia. His works listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places include: Plant City FL Union Depot05

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(commissioned 1907), also known as the

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Florence
National Register of Historic Places South Carolina * Columbus County Courthouse, Bounded by Madison and Jefferson Sts. circle

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Leitner, Joseph F. *

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, Fifth Ave.

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Leitner, Joseph * Goldsboro Union Station (commissioned 1907 and built in 1909), 101 North Carolina St.

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Leitner & Wilkins *

William Hooper School (Former) William Hooper School is a historic school building located on Mears Street between South 4th and South 5th Streets in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was designed by Joseph F. Leitner's firm and is described as being in a Cl ...

(1914), 410 Meares St.

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Leitner, Joseph F. * Plant City Union Depot, E. North Drane St. Plant City, FL Leitner, J.F. * Tampa Union Station, 601 N. Nebraska Avenue Tampa, FL Leitner, J.F.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Leitner, Joseph 1930 deaths American railway architects 1871 births