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K. Norman Berry (March 13, 1933 – May 18, 2021) was an American architect in practice in Frankfort and Louisville, Kentucky from 1965 until his retirement.

Life and career
Kenneth Norman "Norm" Berry was born March 13, 1933 in Corbin, Kentucky to George D. Berry and Gertrude Berry, nee Worley. He was educated at the University of Kentucky, earning a BSCE in 1955. He worked for the United States Steel Corporation and architects McLoney, Tune & Clark and Gray & Coblin in Louisville and Frankfort before returning to the university, from which he earned a BArch in 1965. In 1965 Berry and two associates, James E. Burris and Milton Thompson, acquired the office of Frankfort architect C. Julian Oberwarth. They continued the firm as the Office of Oberwarth Associates and later as Berry, Burris & Thompson. In 1971 Burris and Thompson withdrew from the partnership. Berry moved the firm to Louisville and continued it as a sole proprietorship under the name of K. Norman Berry Associates. In 1994 a new partnership under the same name was formed with Steven A. Eggers. In 2006 Eggers became managing partner of the firm and Berry gradually reduced his involvement until he retired.

Berry was particularly interested in preservation, which became the focus of his firm. He was responsible for the restoration of the Jefferson County Jail and Riverside, The Farnsley–Moremen Landing in Louisville and Federal Hill at My Old Kentucky Home State Park in Bardstown. In 1985 he and his firm were awarded the Ida Lee Willis Memorial Award from the Kentucky Heritage Council.

New construction projects included the postmodern University Club at the University of Louisville, completed in 1991, and the Louisville Slugger Field, designed with HNTB and completed in 2000.

Berry was a member of the American Institute of Architects. He was elected a Fellow in 1994 and in 1999 was recipient of the Oberwarth Gold Medal Award of AIA Kentucky. His firm was also awarded the Distinguished Firm Award of AIA Kentucky in 1990 and 2016.

Personal life
Berry was married in 1957 to Doris Dilliard Mitchell. They had two children, one son and one daughter. He died May 18, 2021 in St. Matthews, Kentucky at the age of 88.

Life and career
Frederic Lindley Morgan was born January 6, 1889 in Loda, Illinois to Joseph Sidney Morgan and Maud Morgan, nee Lindley.

He was educated at the University of Illinois, graduating in 1912 with a BSArch. This was followed by travel in Europe. In 1913 he joined the office of J. Earl Henry, architect to Louisville Public School District. In 1915 he moved to Detroit, where he worked for architects Malcomson & Higginbotham and Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. In 1919 he returned to Louisville, where he joined Henry's new private sector firm, Nevin & Henry, as chief designer. Senior partner Hugh L. Nevin had been in practice in Louisville for about a decade. Henry died in 1920, and in 1921 Nevin formed a new partnership, Nevin, Wischmeyer & Morgan, with Morgan and Herman Wischmeyer. In 1929 the partnership was reorganized as Nevin, Morgan & Kolbrook with the withdrawl of Wischmeyer and the admission of Joseph H. Kolbrook. In 1942 Kolbrook also withdrew and the firm became Nevin & Morgan. The partnership was changed for the last time in 1967 to Nevin, Morgan & Weber, reflecting the addition of Herbert A. Weber. The firm was dissolved after the deaths of Nevin in 1969 and Morgan in 1970.

Nearly all of Morgan's career was spent as partner responsible for design for Nevin & Morgan and its associated firms. He was best known for the design of buildings in traditional revival styles, especially residences in the Georgian Revival style. Morgan was a member of the American Institute of Architects and was elected a Fellow in 1949 for his design work. At the time of his nonination to Fellowship, AIA Kentucky president Frederick R. Louis wrote that Morgan was "the finest Architectural designer in the Commonwealth of Kentucky."

Personal life
Morgan never married. He was a member of the Filson Club and the Arts Club of Louisville. He died May 29, 1970 in Louisville. Morgan donated his estate to the University of Louisville, which was used to endow the Frederic Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design.

Nevin & Henry, 1919–1921

 * 1921 – Lincoln School, S 8th St, Paducah, Kentucky
 * 1921 – Augusta Tilghman High School, 2400 Washington St, Paducah, Kentucky

Nevin, Wischmeyer & Morgan, 1921–1929

 * 1923 – Tway House, 10235 Timberwood Cir, Jeffersontown, Kentucky
 * 1924 – First Presbyterian Church, 185 N Maple Ave, Covington, Virginia
 * 1924 – Harrodsburg High School (former), 441 E Lexington St, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
 * 1926 – Shady Brook Farm, the Theodore Mueller estate, 5802 River Rd, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1927 – Bingham-Hilliard Doll House, 5001 Avish Ln, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1927 – Grawemeyer Hall, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1927 – Highland United Methodist Church, 1140 Cherokee Rd, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1927 – Louisville Collegiate School, 2427 Glenmary Ave, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1927 – Schuster Building, 1500 Bardstown Rd, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1928 – Haldeman House, 3609 Glenview Ave, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1928 – Pendennis Club, 218 W Muhammad Ali Blvd, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1929 – Bayless House, 1116 Bellewood Rd, Anchorage, Kentucky
 * 1929 – Drumanard, 6401 Wolf Pen Branch Rd, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1931 – Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Temple, 200 E Gray St, Louisville, Kentucky

Nevin, Morgan & Kolbrook, 1929–1942

 * 1931 – Lincoln Marriage Temple, Old Fort Harrod State Park, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
 * 1935 – Jones-Dabney Company laboratory, 1495 S 11th St, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1936 – John V. Collis residence, 3750 Upper River Rd, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1937 – William C. Dabney residence, 3760 Upper River Rd, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1941 – Carver Hall, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky

Nevin & Morgan, 1942–1967

 * 1948 – St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, 6710 Wolf Pen Branch Rd, Harrods Creek, Kentucky
 * 1950 – Alumni Chapel, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1950 – Lee Terminal, Louisville International Airport, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1954 – Speed Art Museum Preston Pope Satterwhite addition, 2035 S 3rd St, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1957 – Schneider Hall, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1957 – Second Presbyterian Church, 3701 Old Brownsboro Rd, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1960 – Broadway Baptist Church, 4000 Brownsboro Rd, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1960 – Methodist Evangelical Hospital (former), 315 E Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1961 – Garden Pavilion, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1962 – Independence Life and Accident Insurance Company home office, 137 W Muhammad Ali Blvd Ste. 200, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 1962 – Kentucky State Medical Association offices, Louisville, Kentucky

Life and career
Clarence Julian Oberwarth was born March 1, 1900 in Frankfort, Kentucky to Leo Louis Oberwarth and Ruth Buckner Oberwarth, nee Hawkins. Leo L. Oberwarth was an architect who had been in practice in Frankfort since 1894. He was educated at the University of Kentucky and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating from the latter in 1924 with a BSArch. He immediately returned to Frankfort and joined his father's office as a partner. After his father's death in 1939 Oberwarth continued the firm under his own name. In 1946 Oberwarth formed the partnership of Oberwarth & Livingston with William C. Livingston Jr. In 1965 Oberwarth retired and sold the firm to architect K. Norman Berry and two associates. They continued the firm as the Office of Oberwarth Associates and Berry, Burris & Thompson until 1971, when Berry reorganized the firm as a sole proprietorship and moved it to Louisville. It continues as K. Norman Berry Associates.

Oberwarth was an advocate for improved standards of architectural practice, and to that end was instrumental in the passage of a law requiring the licensure of architects in 1930. He was the first architect to by licensed under that law, and was a long-time member of the Kentucky State Board of Architectural Examiners, which the law had created. He was executive director of the board from 1966 to 1974. He joined the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1927 and was highly active in the organization. He served as Kentucky chapter president for 1933 and as a director of the national organization. He was elected a Fellow in 1942 for design as well as for his contributions to the AIA. He was the namesake and inaugural recipient of the Oberwarth Gold Medal Award, established by AIA Kentucky in 1981.

Personal life
Oberwarth was married in 1935 to Lillian Murray Wiard. They had three children, all daughters. In his retirement he lived in Eutaw, Alabama, where he died April 23, 1983 at the age of 83.

Oberwarth was the author of History of the Practice of Architecture in Kentucky, 1900-1975 (1977), a history of 20th-century architectural practice in Kentucky.

Leo L. Oberwarth & Son, 1924–1939

 * 1934 – Stony Point, the Albert B. Blanton residence, 119 Frazier Rd, Frankfort, Kentucky
 * 1935 – Atwood Hall, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky
 * 1939 – Chandler Hall, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky

Oberwarth & Livingston, 1946–1965

 * 1953 – Carver Hall, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky
 * 1952 – First Church of Christ, Scientist, Frankfort, Kentucky
 * 1953 – Rosenwald Laboratory School, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky
 * 1955 – Kentucky State Capitol renovation and rehabilitation, 700 Capital Ave, Frankfort, Kentucky
 * 1958 – Frankfort City Hall, 315 W 2nd St, Frankfort, Kentucky
 * 1961 – Paul G. Blazer Library, Kentucky State University
 * 1963 – State National Bank of Frankfort office building, 275 E Main St, Frankfort, Kentucky