About Karl M. Vitzthum
Lived 1880 – 1967 (aged 86–87). Karl M. Vitzthum was an American architect.
Karl Martin Vitzthum (1880–1967) was an American architect.
He was born in Tutzing, near Munich, in Germany After Burns died the firm became Vitzthum & Kill, and specialized in churches, schools, high-rise residential, and penal institutions.
He designed more than 50 bank buildings.
He served on the Chicago Zoning Board of Appeals from 1958 until his death in 1967. (K.M. Vitzthum & Co.), NRHP-listed One LaSalle Street Building (1930 or 1939?), also known as One North LaSalle Building, at 1 N LaSalle St., Chicago, (Vitzthum & Burns), NRHP-listed Sheboygan County Courthouse (1933–34), 615 N. 6th St., Sheboygan, Wisconsin, (with W.C. Weeks, of Sheboygan), NRHP-listed St. Peter's in the Loop (1953), (Vitzthum & Burns)
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Who was Karl M. Vitzthum?
German-American architect (1880–1967)
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Karl M. Vitzthum was born in 1880.
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Karl M. Vitzthum died in 1967.
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Karl M. Vitzthum was an architect.
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Karl M. Vitzthum was American.
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