Background
Karl Fred Kamrath was born in Enid, Oklahoma to Georgia
Karl Fred Kamrath was born in Enid, Oklahoma to Georgia
That same year that he graduated the University of Texas with a Bachelor"s degree in architecture.
He, along with Frederick James MacKie, Junior., created the Houston-based architectural firm Mackie and Kamrath. His career spanned over five decades during which he designed residential, commercial, institutional and government buildings. Prior to founding MacKie and Kamrath, Karl Kamrath worked for Pereira and Pereira, the Interior Studios of Marshall Field and Company, and the Architectural Decorating Company in Chicago, Illinois. and Martha Kreplin Kamrath on April 25, 1911.
While still a child, Kamrath"s family moved to Austin, Texas.
In 1955, Karl Kamrath was elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (American Institute of Architects), an organization he was affiliated with since 1939. He became the Houston American Institute of Architects chapter president in 1960 and acted as the chairman of the Frank Lloyd Wright Memorial Committee from 1960 to 1962.
He was inducted into the University of Texas Longhorn Hall of Fame in 1978 and the Texas Tennis Hall of Fame in 1984. Phyllis Wheatley High School (1948)
Temple Emanu-El (1949, with Lenard R Gabert)
Houston Contemporary Arts Association Museum (1949, demolished)
Dow Chemical Company complex, Freeport (1953)
Schlumberger Corporation complex (1953) now University of Houston Energy Research Center
Humble Oil Research Center (1954)
Saint John the Divine Church (1954, with H A Salisbury)
University of Texas Doctor of Medicine Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute (1954, altered), featured in TIME magazine in December 1954
Commercial Standard Insurance Company Building, Fort Worth (1956)
Farnsworth and Chambers Building (1957) an early office facility for National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Project Mercury, now Houston Parks Gragg Building
Temple Rodef Shalom, Waco (1962)
First Pasadena State Bank Building, Pasadena, Texas (1962)
Science and Research Building, University of Houston (1968)
Travertine Nature Center, Chickasaw National Recreation Area.
Sulphur, Oklahoma (1968)
Big Three Industries Building (1974)
Kamrath Second Residence, on Tiel Way in River Oaks, Houston (1953)
George P. Mitchell house, Piney Point Village (1963, demolished), profiled in Fortune Magazine
C.B. Ellis house, on Green River Trail in Fort
Worth, Texas (1966).