Son of Bernard & Nanette (Schnull) Vonnegut. Husband of Edith Sophia (Lieber) Vonnegut. Kurt, Sr. was an Indianapolis architect.
Bio submitted by contributor sidewinder, # 49348971:
Kurt Vonnegut, Sr. (1884-1956) attended School No. 10, a grammar school, from 1890 to 1898. He then attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis for somewhat over a year. He was subsequently sent to the American College in Strasbourg, Germany, for three years.
He followed his father Bernard as an architect - At the age of nineteen he was well prepared in a solid foundation of secondary education, attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied architecture and took his degree of Bachelor of Science in 1908. With his widowed mother and his sister, Irma, he went to Berlin, and continued his architectural studies with the best masters. He returned to Indianapolis in 1910, and joined his father's surviving partner, Arthur Bohn, and took over the well-established firm of Vonnegut & Bohn. He joined the University Club He taught lettering at the Herron Art Institute from 1912-13 and architectural history from 1913-15, and headed the Art Association of Indianapolis Art School Committee from 1915-27. Among his architectural accomplishments was the first building of All Souls Unitarian Church (1453 N. Alabama St) and the Anderson Bank building in Anderson. He also designed signature Art Deco buildings for Indiana Bell throughout the state and new buildings for Hooks Drug stores prior to World War II. His graphic design skills resulted in, among other things, the original logo for the Indianapolis Children's Museum.
On Nov. 22, 1913, Kurt married Edith Sophia Lieber, the daughter of millionaire Indianapolis brewer Albert Lieber and Alice Barus who had died of pneumonia when Edith was six. Soon afterward, her father Albert married a very attractive but extremely eccentric woman, Ora D. Lane, who was never accepted by Albert's family or close friends.
You can read about the Vonnegut Family at “http://www.maxinkuckee.history.pasttracker.com/vonnegut/kurt_sr_vonnegut.htm”
Bio submitted by contributor sidewinder, # 49348971:
Kurt Vonnegut, Sr. (1884-1956) attended School No. 10, a grammar school, from 1890 to 1898. He then attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis for somewhat over a year. He was subsequently sent to the American College in Strasbourg, Germany, for three years.
He followed his father Bernard as an architect - At the age of nineteen he was well prepared in a solid foundation of secondary education, attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied architecture and took his degree of Bachelor of Science in 1908. With his widowed mother and his sister, Irma, he went to Berlin, and continued his architectural studies with the best masters. He returned to Indianapolis in 1910, and joined his father's surviving partner, Arthur Bohn, and took over the well-established firm of Vonnegut & Bohn. He joined the University Club He taught lettering at the Herron Art Institute from 1912-13 and architectural history from 1913-15, and headed the Art Association of Indianapolis Art School Committee from 1915-27. Among his architectural accomplishments was the first building of All Souls Unitarian Church (1453 N. Alabama St) and the Anderson Bank building in Anderson. He also designed signature Art Deco buildings for Indiana Bell throughout the state and new buildings for Hooks Drug stores prior to World War II. His graphic design skills resulted in, among other things, the original logo for the Indianapolis Children's Museum.
On Nov. 22, 1913, Kurt married Edith Sophia Lieber, the daughter of millionaire Indianapolis brewer Albert Lieber and Alice Barus who had died of pneumonia when Edith was six. Soon afterward, her father Albert married a very attractive but extremely eccentric woman, Ora D. Lane, who was never accepted by Albert's family or close friends.
You can read about the Vonnegut Family at “http://www.maxinkuckee.history.pasttracker.com/vonnegut/kurt_sr_vonnegut.htm”
Son of Bernard & Nanette (Schnull) Vonnegut. Husband of Edith Sophia (Lieber) Vonnegut. Kurt, Sr. was an Indianapolis architect.
Bio submitted by contributor sidewinder, # 49348971:
Kurt Vonnegut, Sr. (1884-1956) attended School No. 10, a grammar school, from 1890 to 1898. He then attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis for somewhat over a year. He was subsequently sent to the American College in Strasbourg, Germany, for three years.
He followed his father Bernard as an architect - At the age of nineteen he was well prepared in a solid foundation of secondary education, attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied architecture and took his degree of Bachelor of Science in 1908. With his widowed mother and his sister, Irma, he went to Berlin, and continued his architectural studies with the best masters. He returned to Indianapolis in 1910, and joined his father's surviving partner, Arthur Bohn, and took over the well-established firm of Vonnegut & Bohn. He joined the University Club He taught lettering at the Herron Art Institute from 1912-13 and architectural history from 1913-15, and headed the Art Association of Indianapolis Art School Committee from 1915-27. Among his architectural accomplishments was the first building of All Souls Unitarian Church (1453 N. Alabama St) and the Anderson Bank building in Anderson. He also designed signature Art Deco buildings for Indiana Bell throughout the state and new buildings for Hooks Drug stores prior to World War II. His graphic design skills resulted in, among other things, the original logo for the Indianapolis Children's Museum.
On Nov. 22, 1913, Kurt married Edith Sophia Lieber, the daughter of millionaire Indianapolis brewer Albert Lieber and Alice Barus who had died of pneumonia when Edith was six. Soon afterward, her father Albert married a very attractive but extremely eccentric woman, Ora D. Lane, who was never accepted by Albert's family or close friends.
You can read about the Vonnegut Family at “http://www.maxinkuckee.history.pasttracker.com/vonnegut/kurt_sr_vonnegut.htm”
Bio submitted by contributor sidewinder, # 49348971:
Kurt Vonnegut, Sr. (1884-1956) attended School No. 10, a grammar school, from 1890 to 1898. He then attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis for somewhat over a year. He was subsequently sent to the American College in Strasbourg, Germany, for three years.
He followed his father Bernard as an architect - At the age of nineteen he was well prepared in a solid foundation of secondary education, attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied architecture and took his degree of Bachelor of Science in 1908. With his widowed mother and his sister, Irma, he went to Berlin, and continued his architectural studies with the best masters. He returned to Indianapolis in 1910, and joined his father's surviving partner, Arthur Bohn, and took over the well-established firm of Vonnegut & Bohn. He joined the University Club He taught lettering at the Herron Art Institute from 1912-13 and architectural history from 1913-15, and headed the Art Association of Indianapolis Art School Committee from 1915-27. Among his architectural accomplishments was the first building of All Souls Unitarian Church (1453 N. Alabama St) and the Anderson Bank building in Anderson. He also designed signature Art Deco buildings for Indiana Bell throughout the state and new buildings for Hooks Drug stores prior to World War II. His graphic design skills resulted in, among other things, the original logo for the Indianapolis Children's Museum.
On Nov. 22, 1913, Kurt married Edith Sophia Lieber, the daughter of millionaire Indianapolis brewer Albert Lieber and Alice Barus who had died of pneumonia when Edith was six. Soon afterward, her father Albert married a very attractive but extremely eccentric woman, Ora D. Lane, who was never accepted by Albert's family or close friends.
You can read about the Vonnegut Family at “http://www.maxinkuckee.history.pasttracker.com/vonnegut/kurt_sr_vonnegut.htm”
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