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Title
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Wight and Wight Architects
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Description
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Illustrations and information on Thomas Wight (1874-1949), co-founder of the prominent Kansas City architectural firm of Wight & Wight (originally Wilder & Wight), with residence at 3363 Holmes Street. Native of Canada emigrating to Kansas City about 1904, followed here by his brother William Wight (1882-1947) in 1911, and designing the following structures: "Kansas City Life building, Wyandotte County courthouse, the St. Joseph hospital, the public baths at [15th Street] and the Paseo, the Redemptorist church, the First National bank, the old New England bank, the Live Stock exchange, the exterior design of the Jackson County courthouse, the Nettleton home, St. Teresa's college and the W. W. Shields and H. F. Hall residences."
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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There Is No Limit: Architecture and Sculpture in Kansas City
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Description
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Biographical description of Thomas Wight, older brother in the architectural firm of Wight & Wight, born in Canada in 1874 and emigrating to Kansas City in 1904 before designing the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (pictured) and the First National Bank building here.
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Date
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1934
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Ersie Tarbell Obituary
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Description
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Obituary for Ersie Tarbell, a Kansas City architect with the Wight & Wight Company for 30 years before dying in 1968.
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Date
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1968-04-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
