Thomas Wilson Williamson

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Thomas Wilson Williamson (4 August 1887-16 November 1974) was a Kansas architect who specialized in designing school buildings in Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri.

Williamson is best known for designing Topeka High School in Topeka, Kansas, a magnificent Perpendicular Gothic public high school, completed in 1931. Assisting Williamson was his chief designer Ted Greist, and Linus Burr Smith from Kansas State College (now Kansas State University) to oversee the plans.

Williamson and Griest also designed Clay Elementary School (now Cair Paravel-Latin School), which was completed in 1926.

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• William Elsey Connelley, History of Kansas, State and People, (1928)
• United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places submission for Topeka High School, Shawnee County, Kansas, (22 April 2005)