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Armitage Baptist Church) originally had a Pompeian Ball Room, American Hall, Ionian Lounge, Norman Hall, and the Egyptian Ball Room. Hatzfeld's Masonic Temples include the Des Plaines Masonic Hall (now Stage One Theatre), and the South Side Masonic Temple, and Myrtle Masonic Temple (now Korean Bethel Presbyterian Church) which are both extant in Chicago. In addition to these projects, Hatzfeld also designed the Immel State Bank at 2800 W Belmont Ave.
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provide services to poor immigrant neighborhoods and those of private athletic clubs. For instance, it had a branch of the
Chicago Public Library and an indoor swimming pool. Between the late 1920s and mid 1930s, Hatzfeld designed many other field houses including those in: Athletic Field, Avondale, Gladstone, Kilbourn,
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Laurette Haentze (who went by Laura), a music teacher and daughter of a prominent German family who helped Clarence in his career. He was permitted by the Board of Education to accept private commissions, and both Hatzfeld's father-in-law, Richard Haentze, and brother-in-law,
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Dozens of buildings designed by
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immigrant father, Richard
Hatzfeld and an American-born mother, Emma Drake Hatzfeld. When he was a child, Hatzfeld's family moved to Chicago and his father, who was a pharmacist, soon opened a drug store in Lakeview on the city's North Side. After attending college, Hatzfeld's early architectural
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Hatzfeld's specialties. "These tended to be large brick structures with heavy rectangular massing and well-detail facades." For many of such lodges, Hatzfeld created fanciful interiors, often relying on specific themes for each room. For instance, his 1921 Logan Square Masonic
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is also expressed through its long horizontal outer wings, broad tiled roofs with bracketed overhanging eaves, rich brick pattern-work, and large shallow concrete urns that were originally located at both entrances to the building." It combined features of earlier field houses that were meant to
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District hired Hatzfeld & Knox to design the Independence Park field house. This represented the first of approximately twenty park buildings that Hatzfeld produced in Chicago. The building "conveys a strong feeling of classicism through its monumentality,
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which advertised and that every home was "a little gem of beauty and comfort." Hatzfeld produced plans for a number of these after forming partnership with another Board of
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