Knox, Arthur Howell
Arthur Howell Knox Soundex Code K520
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A.I.A. Historical Directory of American Architects
AIA File: ahd1024442
Name: Knox, Arthur Howell
Personal Information
Birth/Death: deceased 02/03/1973
Occupation: American architect
Location (state): IL; DC; MD
This record has not been verified for accuracy.
AIA Affiliation
Member of The American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1927-decease
Biographical Sources
American Architects Directories:
Biographical listing in 1956 American Architects Directory
Biographical listing in 1962 American Architects Directory
Biographical listing in 1970 American Architects Directory
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American Architects Directory Third edition, Copyright 1970, R.R. Bowker LLC.
Knox, Arthur Howell. AIA, East Chicago Chapter 1925,
Home Address: 2400 Park Place, Evanston, Illinois 60201.
born: Topeka, Kansas, Thursday, July 8, 1880.
Education: B.S., Northwestern University, 1902;
Certificate in Architecture, Armour Institute of Technology, 1904.
Previous Firms: Hatzfeld and Knox, Chicago, 1910-1915;
Arthur Howell Knox, Retired, 1960
Principal Works:
Wilmette Masonic Temple, Illinois, 1925;
Levere Memorial Temple, Evanston, 1930;
Fire Station No. 2, Evanston, 1945. Located at Madison Street and Custer Avenue (Evanston). This is a replacement for the old fire station at Chicago Avenue and Kedzie Avenue, which was built in the 1890s when the area was the Village of South Evanston.
Government Service: Federal Public Housing Authority, 1935-1945.
Chicago Tribune, Article, March 5, 1949, page A5
Real Estate News
Arthur Howell Knox 804 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, has returned to private practice of architecture after nearly 14 years with the government as architect and construction engineer. He has opened an office at 1725 Orrington Avenue, Evanston.
Chicago Tribune, Obituary, Thursday, May 29, 1952, page B11
Ethel Hemphill Knox, Wednesday, May 28, 1952, of 804 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, wife of Arthur Howell Knox, mother of Mrs. Kathleen Knox McFerran and survived by two grandchildren and three sisters. Service 2:30 p.m. Friday, Friday, May 30, 1952, at chapel, 1567 Maple Avenue, Evanston. Burial Dexter, Iowa.
Chicago Historic Schools website
Arthur Howell Knox (1880–1973)
February 8, 2013
Born in Topeka, Kansas, Arthur Howell Knox (1880 – 1973) graduated from Northwestern University in 1902. Two years later, he joined the Chicago Architecture Club. The Chicago Board of Education hired Knox as a draftsman in 1906. Three years later, he and fellow draftsman Clarence Hatzfeld decided to form a partnership. (Hatzfeld had already established a private practice, working part time in the Old Tribune Building, a large downtown structure that also housed the Board of Education’s architectural offices.) By the end of 1909, both Hatzfeld and Knox had resigned from their Board of Education positions. Hatzfeld & Knox was a busy architectural practice producing plans for many residences, the Independence Park field house, and several commercial buildings. Sometime in 1915, they dissolved the partnership. Knox went on to work in the office of Prairie School architect George Nimmons for several years, and then began practicing on his own. In the early 1920s, he won a competition to design Sigma Alpha Epsilon Temple in Evanston. Constructed in 1929, the building was especially important to Knox, who had been a member of the fraternity years earlier. During the early 1940s, he worked for the Federal Housing Administration in Washington, D.C. Throughout most of his life, however, Knox lived in Evanston, designing a number of buildings there, including a fire station which was constructed in the mid-1950s.
