George F. Hammond
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| Born | George Francis Hammond November 26, 1855 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | April 26, 1938 (aged 82) Falls Village, Connecticut |
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| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouses | Annie Borland Barstow
(m. 1883; died 1886)Annie E. Butcher
(m. 1897; div. 1922)Dorothy Weirick (div. 1931) |
| Children | 1 |
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George Francis Hammond (November 26, 1855 – April 26, 1938) was an
Early life
Hammond was born in the Roxbury section of
Career
In 1876, Hammond worked as a draftsman in the office of William G. Preston and in the office of William Ware in Boston.[2] He began independent work in 1878 and became part of the Koehler & Hammond firm for a year, bringing him to Cleveland in 1885 to work on the Hollenden Hotel.[3] He moved to Cleveland in 1886.[2] He was active in Cleveland until 1926.[2] Hammond lived at 1863 Caldwell Road in Cleveland Heights.[3]
He designed hospitals, schools, factories, and power buildings in Chicago, Kansas City, New Orleans, Toronto, and Montreal.
Hollenden Hotel
Liberty E. Holden commissioned Hammond to design the 8-story Hollenden Hotel in Cleveland, one of the area's first hotels to be made fire resistant. It was said to have been outfitted handsomely with "massive redwood and mahogany fittings", exclusively designed furniture, a crystal dining room that politicians used as a meeting place. It "boasted electric lights, 100 private baths, and fireproof construction" [4]
Much of the interior design work was overseen by Hammond. The hotel was said to have had the longest bar in town, and to have been a meeting place for precinct workers, when it was not hosting "colorful balls and festivities". Five presidents, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson and Harding, and many other dignitaries and celebrities stayed at the hotel.[5]
It was upgraded and expanded in a $5 million effort and was managed by several owners until 1960 when the 600 Superior Corporation bought it, but two years later with developer Jas M. Carney they demolished mostly empty guest house and built a new 400 room Hollenden House and parking garage that opened in 1965. With the decline of downtown Cleveland it became unprofitable in the 1980s and closed permanently in 1989. John W. Galbreath built a 32-story office building on the site.[4]
Hammond wrote an article in Concrete-cement Age, "An Unusual Work in Concrete and Stone", about his application of
Other work
He planned a $6,000 residence for C.L. Lane at 54 Front Street in Berea, Ohio[8]
Personal life
Hammond married Annie Borland Barstow in 1883 and after her death in 1886 married Annie E. Butcher of Toronto in 1897 and they had a child Adelaide.[2] They divorced in 1922 and Hammond's third wife was Dorothy Weirick, whom he divorced in 1931.[2] Hammond retired in 1926 and died in Falls Village, Connecticut in 1938,[2] although his obituary says Pittsfield, Massachusetts.[3]
Selected projects
- Hollenden Hotel (1885) at the corner of Superior and East 6th (demolished 1962)[9] He also authored Architectural Competitions for Public Buildings noted in Engineering magazine for subscription.[10][11]
- Beaux Arts Classicism architecture style.[12]
- Lane Metropolitan Church (1900) at 2131 East 46 [13][14]
- Master campus planOhio State Normal College At Kent (Kent State University), 1911-15 including:
- Electric Building (1900) at 700 Prospect Avenue [2][13]
- Original South Brooklyn Public Library (1905), in Cleveland. The library has since moved...
- Industrial Building (1909) 2336-2344 of Canal Road in Cleveland
- McKinley High School (1921), 800 North Market Street a classical revival school building in Cleveland.[17][18]
Demolished
- Gillsy Hotel (demolished)
References
- ^ a b Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's national library of American biography: contains thirty-five thousand biographies of the acknowledged leaders of life and thought of the United States; illustrated with three thousand vignette portraits, Volume 3, American Publishers' Association, 1914. Original from the New York Public Library Digitized Dec 11, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m George F. Hammond Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
- ^ a b c George F. Hammond City planning Commission City of Cleveland
- ^ a b Encyclopedia of Cleveland
- ^ [1] Cleveland: the making of a city By William Ganson Rose page 472
- ^ a b Concrete-cement age, Volume 3 December 1913 edited by Allen Brett, Harvey Whipple page 251
- ^ Skeleton construction in buildings: with numerous practical illustrations of high buildings Author William Harvey Birkmire Edition 2 J. Wiley, 1894 Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Digitized May 25, 2007 237 pages page xv
- ^ Ohio Architect and Builder, Volume 10
- ^ Frank Eugene Kidderpage The architect's and builder's pocketbook of mensuration, geometry... page 758
- ^ Engineering magazine, Volume 8 1907 Original from the New York Public Library Digitized Jun 19, 2008 page 51
- ^ Hollenden Hotel includes a photo
- ^ Stark County Courthouse history Archived 2011-01-06 at the Wayback Machine Stark County website
- ^ a b c d George F. Hammond Cleveland Architects Cleveland Landmarks Commission
- ^ photos of Lane Metropolitan Church City Planning Cleveland Ohio
- ^ Federal Building photo
- ^ Treichler, F. Robert. "A History of Kent Hall" (PDF). Kent State Psychology Department website. Kent State University. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2009.
President McGilvery, always a visionary, harbored the prospect that Kent would one day become a great university, and he instructed George Hammond to generate an architectural master plan to reflect that goal.
- ISBN 978-0-87338-666-1. 318 pages photo on page 105
- ^ Stark County Old McKinley High School (added 1982 - Building - #82003649) 800 N. Market St., Canton National Register of Historic Places website
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