Ira L. Rush (1890-1949) was an American architect in practice in Minot, North Dakota from 1915 until his death in 1949.[1]

Ira L. Rush
Born(1890-06-14)June 14, 1890
DiedMay 9, 1949(1949-05-09) (aged 58)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArchitect
All Saints' Episcopal Church in Minot, designed by Rush and completed in 1921.
The Burleigh County Courthouse in Bismarck, completed in 1931.
The Ransom County Courthouse in Lisbon, completed in 1938.

Life and career

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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.[2][3] Rush practiced architecture in Minot for over thirty years, and won several design competitions for courthouses.[4]

Personal life and death

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Rush was married in 1917 to Eula Margaret Brooks of Urbana, Illinois. They had two children: Dorothy, born in 1918, and Ira Leon Jr., born in 1919.[2][3] Rush died in the early morning of May 9, 1949 in an auto accident near Surrey, east of Minot.[1]

Legacy

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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.[5]

A number of his works survive and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Notable works include

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Notes

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  1. ^ A contributing resource to the Dickinson State Normal School Campus District, NRHP-listed in 1997.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Rush, Ira 1889-1949". The Bismarck Tribune. May 9, 1949. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Ira Leon Rush" in The Semi-Centennial Alumni Record of the University of Illinois, ed. Franklin W. Scott (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1918): 595.
  3. ^ a b "Rush, Ira Leon" in Who's Who in the Central States (Washington: Mayflower Publishing Company, 1929): 843.
  4. ^ Marty Perry (October 3, 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: North Dakota County Courthouses (Thematic)". (18 pages in main PDF, passages about individual courthouses in separate PDFs)
  5. ^ "Rush, Ira Leon" in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1970): 788.
  6. ^ Illinois Alumni News 6, no. 6 (December 15, 1920): 88.
  7. ^ a b c d "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  8. ^ a b Dickinson State Normal School Campus District (1997)
  9. ^ "Minot Mallards Baseball: Ballpark". Archived from the original on 2008-11-20.
  10. ^ Minot Commercial Historic District NRHP Registration Form (1980)