Background
Arthur Bohn was born in 1862 at Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Mr. Bohn grew up in Indianapolis, where his parents settled during his youth.
Arthur Bohn was born in 1862 at Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Mr. Bohn grew up in Indianapolis, where his parents settled during his youth.
Arthur was educated in city schools of Indianapolis. A few years later he began the study of architecture under local architects and received a supplementary training during two years from 1883 to 1885 in Germany.
With the establishment of his own office in Indianapolis, he organized the firm with which he was connected for many years and became active in professional practice. Under the firm name he designed many public and commercial buildings in the city of which the following were the most important: The Fletcher Trust Company; Second Trust & Savings Bank; Hotel' Severn; Herron Art Institute; L. S. Ayres Building; Methodist Hospital; the Hebrew Temple; All Souls Unitarian Church; and in addition a number of stores and industrial buildings. Also, Mr. Bohn was identified with buildings of the firm erected in other cities, including the Trust Company Building at Terre Haute, High School at Shortbridge, and the Federal Building at Vincennes, Ind. In more recent years Mr. Bohn served as an architect of the new State Plaza in Indianapolis, with the State Library and the Historical Building the first units to be built. He also had frequently participated at times, and with success, in a number of architectural competitions, and on certain buildings served in an advisory capacity.
Well-known professionally in the State, he was elected a member of the Indiana Chapter, in 1926 and served as president in 1932. Also was a member and past president of the State Society of Architects.