Louis Curtiss

Louis Singleton Curtiss, was a Canadianborn American architect. Notable as a pioneer of the curtain wall design, he was once described as the Frank Lloyd Wright of Kansas City, Missouri. In his career, he designed more than 200 buildings, though not all were realized. There are approximatelyexamples of his work still extant in Kansas City, Missouri where Curtiss spent his career, including his best known design, the Boley Clothing Company Building. Other notable works can be found throughout the American midwest.

Curtiss was born in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. He studied architecture at the University of Toronto and in Paris before coming to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1887. In 1889 he began an architectural partnership with Frederick C. Gunn that produced over a dozen buildings. When the partnership dissolved in 1899, Curtiss, age 34, continued as a solo architect.

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