James H. Nave (1864 - October 6, 1949) was an American architect based in Lewiston, Idaho. He designed a number of works which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for their architecture.
Early life Nave was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1864. With In 1903, Nave relocated to Lewiston, Idaho.
Career Nave and his firm competed with other architectural firms in Lewiston and in Spokane, Washington to get commissions to design public buildings, commercial blocks, and large homes. Nave's firm won a number of these commissions and is credited with 94 works between 1903 and 1923. With Nave made his reputation primarily through designing schools, although he also designed two churches: St. Stanislaus and Lewiston's Baptist Church.
According to Elizabeth Egleston, "By 1909 Nave was obtaining commissions for commercial and institutional buildings as his residential business declined. His institutional work was Georgian Revival, while his commercial commissions were completed in the Romanesque and Renaissance Revival styles. In her book, Building Idaho, Jennifer Eastman Attebery writes that Nave's work shows a preference for stone and a 'fragmented use of classical motifs.' This affinity for stonework is not surprising, given the fact that he owned a stone quarry in nearby Clarkston [Washington], to which he devoted his energy after he left architectural work in 1933." With
Works include: Bollinger Hotel (1903) James Asposas House, 1610 Fifteenth Ave., Lewiston, ID, NRHP-listed William and Elizabeth McLaren House (1904), 1602 15th Ave., Lewiston, ID, NRHP-listed Nave Apartments (1904), 600 block of 8th St., Lewiston, ID, built of sandstone from Nave's quarry, "Swallow's Nest". NRHP-listed With Means Building (1905) St. Stanislaus Catholic Church (1905), 633 5th Ave., Lewiston, ID, NRHP-listed With Agnes M. Tamblyn House (1905), 1506 Seventeenth Ave., Lewiston, ID, NRHP-listed Kettenbach Building (1906) Frank Booth House (1907), 1608 Seventeenth Ave., Lewiston, ID, NRHP-listed First Presbyterian Church(1909), Locust and 1st St., E., Lapwai, ID, NRHP-listed Garfield School (1910), 2912 5th Ave., Lewiston, ID, NRHP-listed Clarkston Public Library (1913), 1001 6th St., Clarkston, WA, NHRP-listed Gaylord Thompson House (1913), 1824 Seventeenth Ave., Lewiston, ID, NRHP-listed Breier Building (1923), 631-33 Main St., Lewiston, ID, NRHP-listed Bank of Juliaetta, 301 Main St., Juliaetta, ID, NRHP-listed Patrick J. and Lydia Hester House, 1622 Fifteenth Ave., Lewiston, ID, NRHP-listed Lewiston's Baptist church a number of schools in Camas Prairie, Idaho the Wilkes block in Grangeville, Idaho a bank in Glendale, Arizona the Bradford Building in Clarkston, Washington, a three-story steel and glass commercial structure With .
Personal life and death Nave was married twice. After his first wife died, he married Mae Russell in 1937. He had two sons and one daughter. He died on October 6, 1949, in Lewiston, Idaho.
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