{{short description|American architect}}
{{Infobox architect | name = Kirtland Cutter | image = Image from page 496 of "Men of the Pacific coast, containing portraits and biographies of the professional, financial and business men of California, Oregon and Washington. 1902-1903" (1903) (14785460723).jpg | parents = Caroline Atwater Pease<br> William Cutter | birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1860|8|20}} | birth_place = East Rockport, Ohio | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1939|9|26|1860|8|20}} | death_place = Spokane, Washington | significant_buildings = Rainier Club<br>Lake McDonald Lodge<br>The Davenport Hotel | significant_projects = Idaho Building at the Chicago's World Fair | awards = }}
'''Kirtland Cutter''' (August 20, 1860 – September 26, 1939) was a 20th-century architect in the Pacific Northwest and California. He was born in East Rockport, Ohio, the great-grandson of Jared Potter Kirtland.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O3QkDwAAQBAJ&dq=Jared+Potter+Kirtland+Kirtland+Kelsey+Cutte+great-grandson&pg=PA174 Kirtland Cutter: Architect in the Land of Promise], Henry C. Matthews, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, p. 173</ref> He studied painting and illustration at the Art Students League of New York. At the age of 26 he moved to Spokane, Washington,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kirtland Cutter buildings in Spokane - Nov. 23, 2019 {{!}} The Spokesman-Review |url=https://www.spokesman.com/galleries/2019/nov/23/kirtland-cutter-buildings-in-spokane/ |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=www.spokesman.com}}</ref> and began working as a banker for his uncle. By the 1920s, Cutter had designed several hundred buildings that established Spokane as a place rivaling Seattle and Portland, Oregon in its architectural quality.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kirtland Cutter and Spokane's age of elegance - Local Guides - The Spokesman-Review |url=https://www.spokesman.com/guides/kirtland-cutter-and-spokanes-age-elegance/ |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=www.spokesman.com}}</ref> Most of Cutter's work is listed in State and National Registers of Historic Places.
His design for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair Idaho Building was a rustic design log construction. It was a popular favorite, visited by an estimated 18 million people. The building's design and interior furnishings were a major precursor of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Cutter also worked in partnership with Karl G. Malmgren as Cutter & Malmgren and variations.
==Notable designs==
===Buildings in Spokane, Washington=== [[File:Patsy Clark Mansion1.JPG|thumb|200px|Patsy Clark Mansion]] * 1887: Kirtland Cutter's Chalet Hohenstein 628 West 7th Avenue – was demolished to build condominiums in the 1960s * 1888: Glover Mansion 321 W Eighth Avenue – Now a conference and events center. * 1889: F. Lewis Clark Lodge Gate 705 West 7th Avenue – temporary home for Clark * 1889: F. Lewis Clark House 703 West 7th Avenue – Clark named it Undercliff it was later changed to Marycliff * 1889: F. Rockwood Moore House 507 West 7th Avenue * 1897: John A. Finch House 2340 W First Avenue – Designed with Karl Malmgren. * 1897: Austin Corbin House 815 West 7th Avenue * 1897: D. C. Corbin House 507 West 7th Avenue – Now houses the Corbin Art Center * 1898: Amasa B. Campbell House 2316 W First Avenue – Now part of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. * 1898: Patsy Clark Mansion 2208 West Second Avenue – Contains the largest stained glass window ever made by Tiffany Studios. * 1898: Wakefield House, 2328 W First Avenue – First example of Mission Revival Style architecture in Washington State. * c. 1900: Manito United Methodist Church, 3220 S Grand Blvd * 1904: [http://properties.historicspokane.org/property/?PropertyID=2017 Robert E. Strahorn Residence Strahorn Pines designed by J.J. Browne in 1887 remodeled by Cutter] * 1907: J.M. Corbet Corbet-Aspray House 820 West 7th Avenue * 1907: Gardner and Engdahl/The Gables Apartments 1302–1312 West Broadway Avenue *1909: Post Street Electric Substation<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://historylink.org/File/11211|title=Washington Water Power/Avista|website=historylink.org|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref> – designed for Washington Water Power, now called Avista * c. 1910: The Hall of Doges, above Davenport's Restaurant – see The Davenport Hotel * 1910: Spokane Club, 1002 W Riverside Avenue * 1910: Western Union Life Insurance Building * 1911: Monroe Street Bridge – Designed aesthetic elements. * 1912: Waikiki Mansion – Now Gonzaga University's Bozarth Center. * 1912: Louis Davenport House 34 West 8th Avenue * 1914: The Davenport Hotel * 1915: Sherwood Building 510 West Riverside
===Other Washington State sites=== * 1892: Wardner's Castle 1103 15th Street, Bellingham, Washington – Now a bed and breakfast known as Hilltop House. * 1893: Cutter House 802 North Yakima Avenue, Tacoma, Washington * 1898: Charles Stimson Stimson-Green Mansion, 1204 Minor Ave, Seattle * 1904: Rainier Club, Seattle, Washington * 1905: Remodeling of the Tacoma Hotel, Tacoma, Washington, – Designed by McKim, Mead & White in 1883. * 1906-1908: Charles J. Smith house, 1147 Harvard Avenue E, Seattle * 1908: Seattle Golf and Country Club * c. 1909 Yale Hotel in Chewelah – Designed with Karl Malmgren. * 1909: Thornewood Castle, Lakewood, Washington – Set of ''Rose Red'' TV movie by Stephen King * 1912: Cutter Theatre, Metaline Falls, Washington – Formerly the Metaline Falls High School Building * 1912: Rock House, 102 5th Ave Metaline Falls, Washington – Private residence on the Pend Oreille River. * 1922: Heather Hill 11430 Gravelly Lake Dr SW, Tacoma
===Out of state locations=== [[Image:Idaho State Building at World's Columbian Exposition 1893 Kirtland Cutter.jpg|150px|thumb|Idaho Building]] * 1893: Idaho Building, Chicago, Illinois for World's Columbian Exposition in partnership with John C. Poetz * 1895: Charles E. Conrad Mansion, Kalispell, Montana * 1902: Kirtland Hall, New Haven, Connecticut – Sheffield Scientific School * 1903: Carnegie Camp North Point, Raquette Lake, New York- Summer Home of Lucy Carnegie * 1904: Idaho State Building, St. Louis, Missouri for Louisiana Purchase Exposition. * 1906: The Hurlbut Mansion, Lewiston, Idaho – Formerly the Children's Home Finding and Aid Society of North Idaho * 1907: Fredrick Blackwell Residence - Located in Spirit Lake, IDAHO - designed by Cutter * 1907: Bozanta Tavern - Later became Hayden Lake Country Club in 1927, Hayden Lake, Idaho * 1910: Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Wallace, Idaho * 1913: John P.and Stella Gray Estate, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho * 1913: Lake McDonald Lodge, Glacier National Park * 1913: William H. Cowles House Eucalyptus Hill Santa Barbara, California * 1917: Wilcox Manor, Portland, Oregon * 1922: Lewis-Clark Hotel<ref>{{cite web|last1=Society of Historical Architects|first1=Archipedia|title=Lewis-Clark Hotel|url=http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/ID-01-069-0025|website=SAH Archipedia|publisher=SAH|accessdate=23 February 2018}}</ref>, Lewiston, Idaho * 1926: Autzen Mansion, Portland, Oregon * 1929: Los Cerritos, Long Beach, California – three homes in subdivision * 1937: Fleming House, Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California – Built for Victor Fleming, director of ''The Wizard of Oz'' and ''Gone with the Wind''
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=115/ "Kirtland Cutter" at History Link: The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History]
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