John Gideon Haskell (February 5, 1832 – November 25, 1907) was an architect who designed portions of the

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and other public buildings in the state. Haskell was born in

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. His father moved to

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in 1854 with the

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while Haskell was attending

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and had an architect job in

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. After his father died in 1857, he moved to Kansas where he lived for the rest of his life.John G. Haskell Biography - The Castle Tea Room
/ref> He joined the Union army during the

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. After the war he was named official state architect and as such finished the work on the

. He was recruited by county commissioners of Greenwood County and Chase County in east central Kansas to design their courthouses, which he did in 1871, and he designed other courthouses as well.

Works

(wings) * Topeka State Hospital, Topeka *

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*Snow Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence (torn down and rebuilt) *

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, Lawrence (NRHP) * Chase County Courthouse (1871),

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(NRHP) *

English Lutheran Church English Lutheran Church is a historic church at 1040 New Hampshire Street in Lawrence, Kansas. It was built in c.1870 and expanded in 1900. It was added to the National Register in 1995. It is a two-story church built of rusticated limestone ...

, Lawrence (NRHP) * Ludington House, Lawrence (NRHP) *

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, Lawrence (NRHP) *Sunnyside School,

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(NRHP) *Thacher Building, Topeka (NRHP) *Roberts House (now the "Castle Tea Room") on

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in Lawrence *

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*First United Methodist Church, Lawrence *

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(1871) *

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(1871) * McPherson County Courthouse (1894–95),

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* Douglas County Courthouse (1903), Richardsonian Romanesque *University of Kansas Powerhouse (1887, now the Hall Center for the Humanities)

References

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