Armstrong & Buck

Armstrong & Buck was an architectural firm founded in the late 1880s by A. J. Armstrong and Lawrence Buck. They operated from room 27 of the Caldwell-Milner Building at 2017 1st Avenue North.

Before joining as partners, Armstrong worked as chief architect for the Kansas City Railroad and for Sutcliffe, Armstrong & Willett, where he designed Bessemer's Charleston Block.

Buck, who was trained by Henry Thiberge in New Orleans, Louisiana, had worked in Birmingham for Edouard Sidel and participated in the design of the Morris Block.

Among the firm's first designs was a successful entry for the competition for the Fort Worth Board of Trade Building in Fort Worth, Texas. By the time the building was constructed in 1889, Armstrong had moved to Texas to staff Armstrong & Buck's "branch office". He soon found a new partner, however, and practiced there as Armstrong & Messer. That firm designed the "Texas Spring Palace", a temporary exhibition building in Fort Worth which was constructed using products from the state such as wheat, corn, oats, cotton, and seashells.

References

• "A. J. Armstrong & L. Buck" (1888) in North Alabama (Illustrated) Birmingham: Southern Commercial Publishing Co., p. 102