Ira Rush
{{short description|American architect}}
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|birth_place = Bushnell, Illinois
|nationality = American
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|death_place = near Surrey, North Dakota
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File:Minot, North Dakota - 2660937816.jpg, designed by Rush and completed in 1921.]]
File:BurleighCoCourthouseND.jpg in Bismarck, completed in 1931.]]
File:Ransom County Courthouse 2008.jpg in Lisbon, completed in 1938.]]
Ira L. Rush (1890-1949) was an American architect in practice in Minot, North Dakota from 1915 until his death in 1949.{{cite web|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13752459/rush_ira_18891949_p1_obit/|title = Rush, Ira 1889-1949 |website=The Bismarck Tribune |date= May 9, 1949|access-date=February 1, 2020}}
Life and career
Ira Leon Rush was born June 14, 1890, in Bushnell, Illinois to John T. Rush and Ida Mae (Aten) Rush. He was raised in Minot, where he attended the local schools, graduating from Minot High School in 1909. He worked as an architectural drafter until enrolling in the University of Minnesota in 1910, but left the university after a year to return to work. In 1912 he resumed his education at the University of Illinois, graduating in 1915 with a BS in architectural engineering. He then returned to Minot where he opened his own office as an architect."Ira Leon Rush" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=OXEmAQAAIAAJ The Semi-Centennial Alumni Record of the University of Illinois], ed. Franklin W. Scott (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1918): 595."Rush, Ira Leon" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=XF9PAQAAMAAJ Who's Who in the Central States] (Washington: Mayflower Publishing Company, 1929): 843. Rush practiced architecture in Minot for over thirty years, and won several design competitions for courthouses.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=64000474}} |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: North Dakota County Courthouses (Thematic)|author=Marty Perry|date=October 3, 1985}} (18 pages in main PDF, passages about individual courthouses in separate PDFs)
Personal life and death
Legacy
In 1950 Ira L. Rush Jr. graduated from the University of Minnesota and returned to Minot, where he operated his father's architectural office under his own name into the 1970s."Rush, Ira Leon" in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1970): 788.
A number of his works survive and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Notable works include
- All Saints' Episcopal Church, 301 Main St S, Minot, North Dakota (1920–21)[https://books.google.com/books?id=ywBGAQAAMAAJ Illinois Alumni News] 6, no. 6 (December 15, 1920): 88.
- Adams County Courthouse, 600 Adams Ave, Hettinger, North Dakota (1928–29, NRHP 1985){{NRISref|version=2010a}}
- Burleigh County Courthouse, E Thayer Ave, Bismarck, North Dakota (1930–31, NRHP 1985)
- Dickinson City Hall (former), 25 2nd Ave W, Dickinson, North Dakota (1930)
- Klinefelter Hall,{{efn|name=Klinefelter|A contributing resource to the Dickinson State Normal School Campus District, NRHP-listed in 1997.}} Dickinson State University, Dickinson, North Dakota (1931)[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75326694 Dickinson State Normal School Campus District] (1997)
- Corbett Field, 1124 E Burdick Expy, Minot, North Dakota (1935–37){{cite web |url=http://www.minotmallards.com/Ballpark.htm |title=Minot Mallards Baseball: Ballpark |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120005333/http://www.minotmallards.com/Ballpark.htm |archivedate=2008-11-20 }}
- Ransom County Courthouse, Fifth Ave W, Lisbon, North Dakota (1937–38, NRHP 1985)
- Sheridan County Courthouse, 215 E Second St, McClusky, North Dakota (1938–40, NRHP 1985)
- Minot High School addition, 215 1st St SE, Minot, North Dakota (1940)[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75326298 Minot Commercial Historic District NRHP Registration Form] (1980)
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Category:20th-century American architects
Category:Architects from North Dakota
Category:People from Minot, North Dakota
Category:University of Illinois School of Architecture alumni