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John Fanz Staub (September 12, 1892 – April 13, 1981) was an American residential architect who designed numerous traditionally-styled homes and mansions, mostly in Houston, Texas from the 1920s to 1960s.
Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires’ Row.
John Staub was a prominent architect in Houston who came to Dallas in 1936 at the request of Alex Camp and Roberta Coke Camp to design their home on 22 acres on the shores of White Rock Lake. While 8,500 square feet, it is sited in the landscape in an unimposing way.
Sep 10, 2016 · Renowned architect John Staub helped Houston build on its beauty. Staub was highly sought by the wealthyto design homes of lasting distinction. By Diane Cowen, Former Architecture and Home Design...
Jul 18, 2017 · Completed in 1930, 2945 Lazy Lane was designed by Houston’s most eminent architect, John Staub, commissioned by a previous generation oilman, Harry C. Hanszen and his wife, Katherine. Its...
Jul 1, 1995 · Staub was best known as an architect of single-family houses. During the 1920s he employed the full range of romantic European vernacular styles then in vogue for his domestic architecture. After the early 1930s, however, he displayed a consistent preference for more restrained architectural styles, especially Georgian Revival.
Oct 30, 2017 · John Staub, the home’s original architect, designed the entry’s basket-weave front door and intricate Art Deco staircase featuring a new custom stair runner by Hokanson. The bench is from Antique Warehouse by Dale Gillman in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Vaughan chandelier is from George Cameron Nash.
Feb 7, 2020 · On a long-ago trip to New Orleans, John Staub became smitten with the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Rilleux House, built in 1795 a year after a huge fire destroyed much of what is...
Oct 15, 2018 · John Fanz Staub (called Fanz by his Knoxville friends and John at his home in Houston, Texas) graduated from UT in 1913 as a mathematics major and went on to MIT to study architecture. He earned both the BS and MS in architecture at MIT and went to New York to work for Harrie T. Lindeberg, a designer of fashionable country homes.
In 1923, he began an independent practice, working on two of the city’s early planned communities, Courtlandt Place, with architect Birdsall Briscoe, and Broadacres, with architect William Ward Watkin. In 1925, Staub designed a house for Ima Hogg’s estate, Bayou Bend, overlooking Buffalo Bayou.
