James
Felix Kluttz

(1934–1994)

Kluttz was born in Concord NC. He graduated from high school in 1952 and subsequently attended the NCSU School of Design. He completed his BS in Architecture in 1960, also completing two years of Army service during that time. While stationed in West Germany, he met and married California native Jean Routzahn, with whom he had four daughters. Kluttz worked for John Ramsay in Salisbury through 1966. He worked on a Master's in city planning at UNC Chapel Hill in the 1960s but did not complete his thesis. He practiced in Salisbury as a partner in Tennant Tennant and Kluttz before striking out on his own. From around 1980 his private practice was located in the pyramid-shaped building he designed and constructed on Johnson Dairy Road in rural Rowan County. He died in his pyramid in 1994.