Pierre and Wright was a locally renowned Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

 architectural firm, established in 1925 by partners Edward D. Pierre, AIA (1890-1971) and George Caleb Wright

George Caleb Wright

George Caleb Wright, AIA, was an American architect active from in early to mid-twentieth-century Indiana. He was a partner in the locally renowned Indianapolis, Indiana architectural firms of Pierre & Wright, Vonnegut, Wright & Yeager , and Wright, Porteous & Lowe, and was later chief building...

, AIA

American Institute of Architects

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, (1889-1973). It was one of the predecessor firms of Vonnegut, Wright & Yeager

Vonnegut, Wright & Yeager

Vonnegut, Wright & Yeager was an architectural firm active in mid-twentieth-century Indiana. The firm was organized in 1946 as a partnership between the surviving partners of three Indiana firms: Kurt Vonnegut Sr...

.

Pierre & Wright was responsible for many landmarks in Indianapolis and greater Indiana, and a number have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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. After the partnership disbanded in 1944, Pierre started his firm Pierre and Associates. Among the architects employed by this firm were Kenneth B. Curtiss, D. B. Hill, James O. Lewis, James M. Merrifield, J. Parke Randall, D. P. Schlegel, and Richard C. Zimmer. Wright started a new firm with Kurt Vonnegut Sr.

Kurt Vonnegut Sr.

Kurt Vonnegut, Sr., AIA was an American architect and architectural lecturer active in early- to mid-twentieth-century Indianapolis, Indiana. He was partner in the firms of Vonnegut & Bohn, Vonnegut, Bohn & Mueller, and Vonnegut, Wright, and Yeager...

 of Vonnegut, Bohn & Mueller called Vonnegut & Wright. After Ralph Oscar Yeager

Ralph Oscar Yeager

Ralph Oscar Yeager, AIA, was a German-American architect active from in early to mid-twentieth-century Indiana. He was a partner in the locally renowned Terre Haute, Indiana architectural firm of Miller & Yeager and the Indianapolis, Indiana architectural firm of Vonnegut, Wright & Yeager .-Early...

 of Miller & Yeager

Miller & Yeager

Miller & Yeager was a locally renowned German-American architectural firm, established in 1925 by partners Miller and Ralph Oscar Yeager, AIA, . It was one of the predecessor firms of Vonnegut, Wright & Yeager....

 joined, the firm became Vonnegut, Wright & Yeager. Later the firm was known as Wright Porteous & Lowe

Works by Pierre & Wright Architects

• Indianapolis Public School #7
• Indianapolis Public School #78
• Williams Creek Estates: Indianapolis News Model Houses
• Oxford Gables Apartments
• Tuckaway Country Club
• Sears Roebuck (320 N. New Jersey, Indianapolis)
• Indiana State Library and Historical Building
  Indiana State Library and Historical Building
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  , Indianapolis, Indiana
  Indianapolis, Indiana
  Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...
  
  
• Milo Stuart Memorial Building, Arsenal Technical High School
  Arsenal Technical High School
  Arsenal Technical High School is a public high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States which is run by the Indianapolis Public Schools school system. Established in 1912, the school consists of a , multiple building campus east of downtown Indianapolis and is the only such type school in...
  
  (Indianapolis, Indiana)
• Old Trails office building (301-309 W. Washington Street)