Wight and Wight, known also as Wight & Wight, was an architecture firm in

Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090 in 2020, making it the List of United States cities by populat ...

consisting of the brothers Thomas Wight (September 17, 1874 – October 6, 1949) and William Wight (January 22, 1882 – October 29, 1947) who designed several landmark buildings in

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and

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. The brothers were born in

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and worked for

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for 10 years. Thomas moved to Kansas City in 1904 and joined a firm with Edward T. Wilder. William joined the firm in 1911 and Wilder retired in 1916. The firm achieved its greatest in fame in the late 1920s and early 1930s creating large Neoclassical structures which have become Kansas City landmarks. Notable structures: *

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of Asian art. In 2007, ''Time'' magaz ...

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* Kansas Governor's Mansion * Kansas City Livestock Exchange *Approaches to the

Liberty Memorial The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri was opened in 1926 as the Liberty Memorial. In 2004, it was designated by the United States Congress as the country's official war memorial and museum dedicated to World War ...

* Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City *

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Courthouse *

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Courthouse * Kansas City Life Insurance headquarters *

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home Red Rocks (now the William Allen White State Historic Site) Works listed on the U.S.

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include (with NRHP attribution): * Central National Bank, 701–703 Kansas Ave. Topeka, KS (Wight & Wight) * Harwelden, 2210 S. Main St.

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(Wight & Wight) * Holy Name Catholic Church, 2800 E. 23rd St.

Kansas City, MO Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090 in 2020, making it the 36th most-populous city in the United States. It is the central ...

(Wight & Wight) *

Frank Hughes Memorial Library Frank Hughes Memorial Library is a historic library building located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It was designed by the architectural firm Wight and Wight and built in 1940. It is a one-story, rectangular Classical Revival style brick buil ...

, 210 E. Franklin St. Liberty, MO (Wight & Wight) * Kirkwood Building, 1737-41 McGee St.

(Wight and Wight) * George H. Nettleton Home, 5125 Swope Parkway

(Wight & Wight) * George E. Nicholson House, 1028 W. 58th St.

(Wight & Wight) * Pickwick Hotel, Office Building, Parking Garage and Bus Terminal, 901-937 McGee St., 301-311 E. 9th St., 300-310 E. Tenth St., 906-912 Oak St.

(Wight and Wight) * U.S. Courthouse and Post Office-Kansas City, MO, 811 Grand Blvd.

(Wight & Wight) *

Wyandotte County Courthouse The Wyandotte County Courthouse, located at 710 N. 7th St. in Kansas City, Kansas, is a courthouse which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It was designed in Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an archi ...

, 710 N. 7th St. Kansas City, KS (Wight and Wight) *One or more works in the South Liberty Courthouse Square Historic District, 2 S. Main St., 10 E. Kansas St., 1--17 E. Kansas St. Liberty, MO (Wight & Wight)

References

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: culture comes to Kansas City By Kristie C. Wolferman - 1993 - University of Missouri Press
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Kansas City Public Library Wight and Wight material
Architecture firms based in Missouri Companies based in Kansas City, Missouri