Joseph F. Leitner

Joseph Florence Leitner (June 13, 1871 – June 2, 1930) was an American architect whose work includes several rail stations. In Columbia, South Carolina he worked for Charles Coker Wilson (beginning in 1901) for five years. Later he partnered with William J. Wilkins (architect), first in Florence, South Carolina (completing work in Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Florida, and Tennessee) and then in an office in Wilmington, North Carolina, where Leitner practiced for a decade. to form Leitner & Wilkins. His work included commercial, educational, fraternal religious, industrial, residential, and transportation buildings in Colonial Revival architecture, Flemish architecture (especially gables, Italianate architecture and Romanesque Revival architecture styles. He ended his career in Florida. and other locations. in Rocky Mount and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad YMCA. His biggest project in North Carolina were Wilmington's Union Station (demolished in 1970, although a community college building modelled on the original is planned) the Atlantic Coast Line Office Building. A cold storage plant was also planned. Other designs included the Winston-Salem Southbound Freight Depot., on Market Street, in 1913 William Hooper School (1914).

Outside of Wilmington his work included: Several schools including three in Fayetteville in 1911 and others in Charlotte Columbus County Courthouse (1914-1915) in Whiteville R. E. L. Brown House in Chadbourn, a Southern Colonial architecture residence Lumberton Hotel (1914) Mitchell Elementary School, Charleston, SC

He opened an office in Atlanta in 1917 with architect C. P. Niederhauser, who had worked in Jacksonville, Florida, and then joined the Atlanta firm of Edwards and Sayward (William Augustus Edwards and William J. Sayward). He may have worked in St. Petersburg, Florida in the firms of Leitner and Henson (1926) and Brown and Leitner (1927). By 1930 he was living in Tampa, Florida, where he designed bridges. He died June 2, 1930. He is buried in Harlem Memorial Cemetery in Harlem, Georgia .

His works listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places include:

Atlantic Coast Line Depot (Florence, South Carolina) (commissioned 1907), also known as the Florence Passenger Station Columbus County Courthouse, Bounded by Madison and Jefferson Sts. circle Whiteville, NC Leitner, Joseph F. Conway Methodist Church, 1898 and 1910 Sanctuaries, Fifth Ave. Conway, SC Leitner, Joseph Goldsboro Union Station (commissioned 1907 and built in 1909), 101 North Carolina St. Goldsboro, NC Leitner & Wilkins William Hooper School (Former) (1914), 410 Meares St. Wilmington, NC Leitner, Joseph F. Plant City Union Depot, E. North Drane St. Plant City, FL Leitner, J.F. Tampa Union Station, 601 N. Nebraska Avenue Tampa, FL Leitner, J.F.