Wight and Wight, known also as Wight & Wight, was an architecture firm in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

 consisting of the brothers Thomas Wight (1874-1949) and William Wight (1882-1947) who designed several landmark buildings in Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

 and Kansas

Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

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The brothers were born in Halifax, Nova Scotia

City of Halifax

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 and worked for McKim, Mead and White for 10 years. Thomas moved to Kansas City in 1904 and joined a firm with Edward T. Wilder. William joined the firm in 1911 and Wilder retired in 1916.

The firm achieved its greatest in fame in the late 1920s and early 1930s creating large Neoclassical

Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing...

 structures which have become Kansas City landmarks.

Notable structures:

• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its neoclassical architecture and extensive collection of Asian art....
  
  
• Kansas City City Hall
  Kansas City City Hall
  The City Hall of Kansas City, Missouri, is the official seat of government for the city of Kansas City, Missouri. It is a 29-story skyscraper located in downtown Kansas City, and has an observation deck on the top of it...
  
  
• Kansas Governor's Mansion
• Kansas City Livestock Exchange
• Approaches to the Liberty Memorial
  Liberty Memorial
  The Liberty Memorial, located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, is a memorial to the fallen soldiers of World War I and houses the The National World War I Museum, as designated by the United States Congress in 2004.. Groundbreaking commenced November 1, 1921, and the city held a site dedication...
  
  
• Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City
• Clay County, Missouri Courthouse
• Wyandotte County, Kansas
  Wyandotte County, Kansas
  Wyandotte County is a county located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. The county's population was 157,505 for the 2010 census. Its county seat and most populous city is Kansas City with which it shares a unified government...
  
   Courthouse
• Kansas City Life Insurance headquarters
• William Allen White
  William Allen White
  William Allen White was a renowned American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement...
  
   home Red Rocks (now the William Allen White State Historic Site)

Works listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 include (with NRHP attribution):

• Central National Bank, 701--703 Kansas Ave. Topeka, KS (Wight & Wight)
• Harwelden, 2210 S. Main St. Tulsa, OK (Wight & Wight)
• Holy Name Catholic Church, 2800 E. 23rd St. Kansas City, MO (Wight & Wight)
• Frank Hughes Memorial Library, 210 E. Franklin St. Liberty, MO (Wight & Wight)
• Kirkwood Building
  Kirkwood Building
  The Kirkwood Building in Kansas City, Missouri is a building from 1920. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.It was designed by architects Wight and Wight in Early Commercial style....
  
  , 1737-41 McGee St. Kansas City, MO (Wight and Wight)
• George H. Nettleton Home, 5125 Swope Parkway Kansas City, MO (Wight & Wight)
• George E. Nicholson House, 1028 W. 58th St. Kansas City, MO (Wight & Wight)
• Pickwick Hotel, Office Building, Parking Garage and Bus Terminal, 901-937 McGee St., 301-311 E. 9th St., 300-310 E. Tenth St., 906-912 Oak St. Kansas City, MO (Wight and Wight)
• U.S. Courthouse and Post Office-Kansas City, MO, 811 Grand Blvd. Kansas City, MO (Wight & Wight)
• Wyandotte County Courthouse, 710 N. 7th St. Kansas City, KS (Wight and Wight)
• One or more works in the South Liberty Courthouse Square Historic District, 2 S. Main St., 10 E. Kansas St., 1--17 E. Kansas St. Liberty, MO (Wight & Wight)