Thomas Wilson Williamson

The Cheyenne County Courthouse in St. Francis, designed by Thomas W. Williamson & Company and completed in 1925. Topeka High School, designed by Theodore R. Griest for Thomas W. Williamson & Company and completed in 1931. Thomas Wilson Williamson (August 4, 1887 – November 16, 1974) was a Kansas architect who specialized in designing school buildings in Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri.

Life and career He was born August 4, 1887 in Hiawatha, Kansas. He graduated from Topeka High School in 1907. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with an A.B. degree from its school of architecture and returned to Kansas in 1911. He worked briefly for the Kansas state architect's office and for one year for architect John F. Stanton (whose El Dorado Carnegie Library is NRHP-listed). He then opened his own practice in 1912. Firm names including him operated as Thomas W. Williamson and Company, as Thomas W. Williamson, Victor H. Loebsack & Associates, and later as Williamson-Loebsack & Associates. The firm grew to a size of 46 architects, draftsmen, engineers and other specialists. courthouses Jayhawk Hotel, Theater and Walk (1926), 700 Jackson Ave., Topeka, (Williamson, Thomas W.), NRHP-listed Topeka High School (1931 campus), 800 SW 10th Ave., Topeka, (Williamson, Thomas W.), NRHP-listed Washington Grade School (1938), 209 S. Locust St. Pittsburg, Kansas (Williamson, Thomas W. & Co.), NRHP-listed

Central Motor and Finance Corporation Building, 222 W. 7th St., Topeka, Kansas (Williamson, Thomas W.), NRHP-listed Curtis Junior High School, 316 NW Grant St., Topeka, (Williamson, Thomas Wilson), NRHP-listed Fire Station No. 2--Topeka, 719-723 Van Buren, Topeka, (Williamson, Thomas Wilson), NRHP-listed Hiawatha Memorial Auditorium, 611 Utah St., Hiawatha, Kansas (Williamson, Thomas W.), NRHP-listed Sumner Elementary School and Monroe Elementary School, 330 Western Ave. and 1515 Monroe St., Topeka, (Williamson, Thomas W.), NRHP-listed Union County Courthouse, (completed 1952), 300 N Pine St, Creston, Iowa (Thomas W. Williamson, Victor H. Loebsack & Associates)