Kivett & Myers was an architecture firm in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, that pioneered the design of modern professional sports stadiums.
The firm was established in 1931 as the sole proprietorship of Clarence Kivett. With the addition of Ralph E. Myers in 1945, the firm became the partnership of Kivett & Myers. The firm was acquired by HNTB in 1975.
History
Kivett's first big design project was the Art Deco design of the flagship Katz Drug Store (1934), later an Osco, at Kansas City's Main Street and Westport Road in the Westport neighborhood. The owners, Mike and Ike Katz, were his mother's brothers.
He was joined by Ralph Myers in 1940, and they became partners in Kivett and Myers in 1945.
They went on to design the Cumonow Residence in Mission Hills, Kansas, the Missouri State Office Building at 13th and Holmes, the old Temple B'nai Jehudah at 69th and Holmes, Spencer Chemistry and Biological Sciences Building at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and the Fairmount Hotel in the Country Club Plaza and the Mission Hills Country Club clubhouse.[1]