Harris Armstrong

{{short description|American architect}}

{{no footnotes|date=January 2015}}

{{Infobox architect

| name = Harris Armstrong

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|4|6}}{{cite web |title=Harris Armstrong Collection, 1924-1972 |url=http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=235&q= |website=WUA University Archives |access-date=28 May 2021}}

| birth_place = Edwardsville, Illinois

| death_date = {{Death-date and age|December 15, 1973|April 6, 1899}}{{cite news |title=Harris Armstrong Dies; Noted Architect |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48272952/harris-armstrong-dies/ |access-date=28 May 2021 |publisher=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=16 December 1973 |via=Newspapers.com}}

| death_place = St. Louis, Missouri

}}

Harris Armstrong (April 6, 1899 – December 15, 1973) was an American regional modernist architect, considered the dean of modernists active in St. Louis, Missouri.

After working in the office of Raymond Hood {{where?|date=January 2015}} in the 1930s, Armstrong returned to St. Louis and designed many civic landmarks, including the 1935 Shanley Building, awarded a silver medal at the 1937 Paris Exposition of Art and Technology; the 1938 Grant Medical Clinic; the 1946 "Magic Chef" building in collaboration with Isamu Noguchi; and the distinctive 1962 Ethical Society building.{{cite web |title=Meeting Houses |url=https://www.ethicalstl.org/history/meeting-houses/ |website=Ethical Society of St. Louis |access-date=1 July 2021}}

He was one of five finalists in the design competition for the Gateway Arch National Park (then known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial). Armstrong retired in 1969.

He was the father of the actor Todd Armstrong.{{cite web|url=http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2013/12/st-louisan-todd-armstrong-starred-jason-argonauts-1963/ |title=St. Louisan Todd Armstrong Starred in JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS in 1963|date=December 19, 2013|accessdate=May 10, 2014}}