Samuel Siegfried Voigt (1885–1937), commonly known as S.S. Voigt, was an architect based in Wichita, Kansas who specialised in churches and school design. He was reported to have designed about 200 churches and more than 400 schools.
He was born in Leipzig, Germany, and came to Wichita at a young age. He worked for architect F.G. McCune in Wichita and later established his own firm. He died unexpectedly after a short illness in 1937.
"Architect S.S. Voigt did not appear to favor a particular style in his school designs but rather embraced the popular styles of the times. His early school commissions were Progressive Era/Commercial Style buildings of the 1920s". He designed several Collegiate Gothic schools, including in 1921, 1928, and 1930. "By the mid-1930s, his school designs reflected Modern and Art Deco stylistic influences." "Kansas schools known to have been designed by Voigt are located in: Beeler, Caldwell, Chase, Coffey County, Derby, Elmdale, Harper, Lakin, Lorraine, Lost Springs, Leroy, Medicine Lodge, Moran, Piedmont, and Uttica, in addition to the 1931 Belleville High School."
Works include: St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church (1914), in Wichita Westside Presbyterian Church (1915), in Wichita Barnes Building (1919), Wichita Fourth National Bank Building (1919), Wichita Salem Evangelical Church (1920), Wichita Rural High School District No. 2 (1921), in Lost Springs, Kansas. Collegiate Gothic. Orpheum Theater (1922), WichitaHowever other sources say that the Orpheum Theater in Wichita was designed by another architect. Southwestern Osteopathic Sanitarium (1924), Wichita University Friends Church (1925), Wichita Midian Shrine Temple (1927), Wichita Southern Coffey County High School (1928), in LeRoy, Kansas. Collegiate Gothic. Hotel Roberts (1930), Pratt, Kansas, NRHP-listed. With 18 photos from 2014. Belleville High School (1931)in Belleville, Kansas, NRHP-listed St. Mary's American Syrian Orthodox Church (1935), Wichita Stanley African Methodist Episcopal Church (1937), Wichita Anthony Theater, 220 W. Main St. Anthony, Kansas, NRHP-listed First Presbyterian Church of Abilene, 300 N. Mulberry St. Abilene, Kansas, NRHP-listed Wolf Hotel, 104 E. Santa Fe Ellinwood, Kansas, NRHP-listed Eureka Memorial Hall (1924), Eureka, Kansas,
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