William H. Nicklas (1866–1960) was an Ohio architect who was best known for his church designs in partnership with Sidney Badgley.

Nicklas was born in New Philadelphia, Ohio and graduated from Ohio Northern University. He first began his career in education and was working as an architect by 1894 in New Philadelphia. He moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1897 and worked in Sidney Rose Badgley's office as a draftsman. Nicklas became a partner in 1904 in the firm which became known as Badgley and Nicklas until it was dissolved in 1913. Nicklas continued the firm for several years after the death of Badgley in 1917.

The largest portion of the firm's work was in the Cleveland area but also designed buildings throughout the Midwestern United States. Many of these buildings are today listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Incomplete list of extant Nicklas designs:

Selected works BuildingYear CompletedBuilderStyleSourceLocationImage Deering Memorial United Methodist Church, gift of William Deering 1910–1911 Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas Gothic Revival South Paris, Maine Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church, 1904–06 Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas Gothic Revival Richmond, Indiana Calvary Baptist Church 1907 Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas Gothic Revival Providence, Rhode Island Highland Park Presbyterian Church (Michigan) 1910–11 Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas Gothic Revival Detroit, Michigan Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church 1911 Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas Gothic Revival Detroit, Michigan

Lakewood United Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1904 Cleveland Heights Presbyterian Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1904 Central Methodist (United) Church, Calgary, Alberta, 1905 St. John AME Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1908 Grace Methodist Church, Zanesville, Ohio, 1909 Fourth Reformed Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1909 Trinity United Methodist Church, Athens, Tennessee 1910 Fidelity Baptist Church, Cleveland, OH, 1911 First Presbyterian Church, Wichita, Kansas, 1912 Lakewood Congregational Church, Lakewood, Ohio, 1913 Broadway Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1918–19 Third Christian Church, Norfolk, Virginia, 1922 Trinity Episcopal Church, New Philadelphia, Ohio Trinity United Methodist Church, Sandusky, Ohio, 1923

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