Floyd Orson Wolfenbarger

Floyd Orson Wolfenbarger (1904–1979), was an American architect in Kansas. He founded the architectural firm F. O. Wolfenbarger and Associates in 1935, and was part of the architectural firm partnership, Wolfenbarger and McCulley. Wolfenbarger designed several Kansas State University buildings in Manhattan, Kansas.

Biography Floyd Orson Wolfenbarger was born on November 29, 1904, in Winkler, an unincorporated community in Riley County, Kansas. He graduated from Manhattan High School. He received a Bemis Foundation grant for work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to develop modular units as building materials.

He established an architectural firm Wolfenbarger and McCulley in the city of Manhattan, Kansas, a partnership with architect Robert Maxwell McCulley, who continued the firm until 1985, after Wolfenbarger's death.

Work

Mattie M. Elliot House (, or 1928), at 600 Houston Street, Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas; NRHP-listed Riley County Jail (1940), at Colorado and 6th Streets, Manhattan, Kansas Riley County Memorial Hospital (1954), at Manhattan, Kansas Eisenhower Presidential Library (1956) in Abilene, Kansas; one of the project architects Kansas State University, several buildings including McCain Auditorium (1969), King Hall (1966), Caldwell Hall (1963), and Justin Hall (1960) Manhattan Country Club, at Manhattan, Kansas AT&T building at 1640 Fairchild Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas Arthur-Green office building at 801 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas Riley County Historical Museum at 2309 Claflin Road, Manhattan, Kansas Lee Elementary at 701 Lee Street, Manhattan, Kansas