Bernard Vonnegut, Sr.

Bernard Vonnegut Sr., WAA, FAIA, (August 8, 1855, Indianapolis - August 7, 1908, Indianapolis) was a German-American lecturer and architect active in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Indiana.[1] He was a co-founder of the locally renowned Indianapolis architectural firm of Vonnegut and Bohn. He was active in a range of residential, religious, institutional, civic, and commercial commissions. He is the namesake and grandfather of scientist Bernard Vonnegut, father of the architect Kurt Vonnegut Sr. and grandfather of author Kurt Vonnegut.

The second son was Bernard Vonnegut, who was born August 8, 1855, and died in August 1908. After a short trail of the mercantile business he entered an architects office, but after a year sought to restore his failing health by working as a carver with mallet and chisel in the Ittenbach Contracting Company's stone yard. Then after an apprenticeship with a manufacturer of mathematical instruments he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, of which he was a graduate, and took advanced work in the School of Technology in Hanover, Germany, and later in a similar institute in Berlin. On returning to Indianapolis he entered upon a long continued and successful career as an architect, establishing the firm of Vonnegut & Bohn. He married Nannie Schnull. They had three children: KURT married Edith Lieber. They have two children: Bernard and Alice. IRMA is unmarried. ALEX married Ray Dryer. - Clemens Vonnegut - Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood Chicago: American Historical Society, 1919, pg. 2173-

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Architect and grandfather of author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. He was a German-American architect who joined with Arthur Bohn in 1888 to form the architectural firm of Vonnegut & Bohn. Architect of L.S. Ayres Building, Athenaeum, Shortridge High School, and Herron Art School. Son of Clemens Vonnegut, Sr., founder of Vonnegut Hardware Company.

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