Fiske & Miller, Architects
Partners:
Ferdinand C. Fiske, Lincoln, Nebraska
Jesse B. Miller, Lincoln, Nebraska
Fiske & Miller was a short-lived but productive Lincoln firm that operated from 1913 to 1914. It was succeeded by Fiske & Meginnis, Architects and by a period of independent practice by Jesse Miller.
This page is a contribution to the publication, Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects. See the Format and contents of Nebraska architect entries page for more information on the compilation and page organization.
Contents
Compiled Nebraska Directory Listings
Lincoln, Nebraska, 1913-1914
Lineage of the Firm
1888-1889: Fiske & Peters, Architects, Lincoln, Nebraska.
1902: Dieman & Fiske, Lincoln, Nebraska.
ca. 1903: Dieman & Meginnis, Architects, Lincoln, Nebraska.
1903-1910: Fiske & Dieman, Architects, Lincoln, Nebraska.
ca. 1905: Fiske, Dieman & Meginnis, Architects, Lincoln, Nebraska.
1913-1914: Fiske & Miller, Architects, Lincoln, Nebraska.[9][10][a]
1915-1924: Fiske & Meginnis, Architects, Lincoln, Nebraska.[11]
1925: Fiske, Meginnis & Schaumberg, Architects, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Buildings & Projects
Dated
City National Bank (1913-1914), York, Nebraska.[2][3][11]
W. E. Chapin house (1913), 1979 D St, Lincoln, Nebraska.[1][4] (LC13:D07-044)
Henry H. Wilson house (1913), 1928 E St, Lincoln, Nebraska.[1][5] (LC13:D07-0236)
Addition to R. E. Moore house (1913), northwest corner of 18th & E, Lincoln, Nebraska.[6]
H. Hoffman House (1913), 1016 S. 8th, Lincoln, Nebraska.[1] (LC13:C07-214)
Mrs. Reimers' bungalow (1914), 2201 B St., Lincoln, Nebraska.[8] (LC13:D07-0614)
John T. & Susie Johnson House (1914), 1519 E St., Lincoln, Nebraska.[12] (LC13:D07-0097)
N. C. Rogers house (1914), 2145 B St., Lincoln, Nebraska.[1][7][11] (LC13:D07-613)
Senator Elmer J. Burkett house (1914), 1944 B St, Lincoln, Nebraska.[1][11] (LC13:D07-055)
E.G. Baxter House (1914), 1250 S. 24th, Lincoln, Nebraska. (LC13:D07-0683)
Miller Winship Building (1914), 852 S. 27th, Lincoln, Nebraska (LC13:E07-176)
A. L. Shader House (1914), 3001 Q Street, Lincoln, Nebraska.[11][13][16] (LC13:E09-574)
Central National Life Insurance Company (1914, remodel of existing Hertzog Building), southwest corner of S. 15th & N Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska.[11][14][15]
Apollo & LaBelle Apartments (1915), 730 S.11th, Lincoln, Nebraska. (LC13:C08-210)
Notes
a. A small notice in the Lincoln Daily News of September 7, 1914 announced "The co-partnership heretofore existing between Ferd C. Fiske and Jesse B. Miller under the firm name of Fiske and Miller, architects, is hereby dissolved by mutual consent. The said Ferd C. Fiske continuing the business in same office in Bankers' Life Ins. building, who assumes all liabilities and will collect all accounts due the firm." Miller recalled several years later in Who's Who in Lincoln of 1928 that the partnership continued until 1915, but the more closely contemporary source is more credible. Fiske announced the "New Firm" of Fiske & Meginnis in January, 1915, listing several projects recently completed, including several dating from the period of the Fiske & Miller partnership.[9][10][11]
References
1. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property with the Mount Emerald and Capitol Additions Historic District. SEE National Register narrative.
2. Thomas Lee Kaspar, comp. Inventory of architectural records in the archives of Davis Fenton Stange Darling, Architects, Lincoln, Nebraska. 1996. Nebraska State Historical Society, RG3748, Box 16.
3. "City National Bank, York Nebraska - Photos Then and Now on Waymarking.com," http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM721X_City_National_Bank_York_Nebraska Accessed February 7, 2017.
4. City of Lincoln Building Permit No. 5011, issued May 1, 1913. Estimated cost of construction, $10,000.
5. City of Lincoln Building Permit No. 5012, issued May 1, 1913. Estimated cost of construction, $10,000.
6. City of Lincoln Building Permit No. 5061, issued May 27, 1913. Estimated cost of construction, $3,300.
7. City of Lincoln Building Permit No. 5467, issued April 11, 1914. Estimated cost of construction, $20,300.
8. City of Lincoln Building Permit No. 5114, issued 1913. Estimated cost of construction, $5,500. Concrete construction.
9. "Miscellaneous" notice (announcing dissolution of Fiske & Miller partnership) in Lincoln Daily News (September 7, 1914), 15.
10. Sara Mullin Baldwin, ed., Who's Who in Lincoln (Lincoln, Nebraska: Robert M. Baldwin, 1928), 157.
11. "New Firm" (announcement of partnership of Fiske & Meginnis), Lincoln Daily News(January 4, 1915), 2; including list of a dozen recent projects by Fiske and Fiske partnerships.
12. City of Lincoln Building Permit No. 5522, issued May 2, 1914. Estimated cost of construction, $6,000. Contractor: Wunion Realty & Construction Co. (Loyd A. Winship, pres.); architect: Miller Winship Investment Co. (A. W. Miller, Pres.; L. A. Winship, sec./treas.)
13. City of Lincoln Building Permit No. 5762, issued October 17, 1914. Estimated cost of construction, $6,000. Architects: Fiske & Miller (listed on Building Permit application).
14. The American Contractor (August 15, 1914), 80.
15. City of Lincoln Building Permit No. 5774, issued October 30, 1914. Estimated cost of construction, $9,000. Architect: Ferd. C. Fiske (listed on Permit Application).
16. Photo and floor plan for Shader house at 3001 Q St., Lincoln, captioned "Resident Plan, Fiske & Meginnis, Lincoln, Neb.," Sunday State Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska) (July 18, 1915).
Page Citation
E. F. Zimmer and D. Murphy, “Fiske & Miller, Architects,” in David Murphy, Edward F. Zimmer, and Lynn Meyer, comps. Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, April 7, 2017. http://www.e-nebraskahistory.org/index.php?title=Place_Makers_of_Nebraska:_The_Architects Accessed, April 19, 2024.
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