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George F. Hammond

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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
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in Cleveland. He originally wanted the foyer by the elevator on each floor to represent a different country, but eventually the plan was not adopted, but the basement foyer was modeled after it and made to imitate "red Syrene granite" architecture of Egypt. The article is illustrated with a view of
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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
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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. They divorced in 1922 and Hammond's third wife was Dorothy Weirick, whom he divorced in 1931. Hammond retired in 1926 and died in
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sculpted by Jirouch of Fisher and Jirouch Co. Hammons spoke of his own trip to Egypt and the "1,500 to 2,000" negatives he made to use along with pictures from professional photographers. He also wrote foreword praising Skeleton construction in buildings.
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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
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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.
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the hotel's basement elevator foyer showing the completed work carried out by The George Rackle & Sons Co. of Cleveland including columns types Hammond said were found at
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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
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is "a fine Colonial Revival residence". Hammond designed several suburban homes, especially in the Clifton Park area of Lakewood and published
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He designed hospitals, schools, factories, and power buildings in Chicago, Kansas City, New Orleans, Toronto, and Montreal. Hammond's home in
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Old McKinley High School (added 1982 - Building - #82003649) 800 N. Market St., Canton National Register of Historic Places website
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to George and Cornelia Johnson Hammond. He painted before becoming a professional architect and attended the
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and in the office of William Ware in Boston. He began independent work in 1878 and became part of the
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a meeting place. It "boasted electric lights, 100 private baths, and fireproof construction"
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Original South Brooklyn Public Library (1905), in Cleveland. The library has since moved...
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He planned a $ 6,000 residence for C.L. Lane at 54 Front Street in Berea, Ohio
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The architect's and builder's pocketbook of mensuration, geometry...
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firm for a year, bringing him to Cleveland in 1885 to work on the
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Cleveland: the making of a city By William Ganson Rose page 472
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Industrial Building (1909) 2336-2344 of Canal Road in Cleveland
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in 1938, although his obituary says Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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In 1876, Hammond worked as a draftsman in the office of
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Administration Building (later renamed Cartwright Hall)
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Master campus plan and five original buildings of the
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Herringshaw's national library of American biography
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Cleveland Architects Cleveland Landmarks Commission
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Index


Boston
Falls Village
Massachusetts Normal Art School
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

architect
Cleveland
Kent State University
Neoclassical architecture
Beaux Arts Architecture
Egyptian Revival
Hollenden Hotel
Boston
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Normal Art School
William R. Ware
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
curriculum
Beaux-Arts

Stark County Courthouse
Canton, Ohio

Canton McKinley High School
William G. Preston
Hollenden Hotel
Cleveland Heights
Hollenden Hotel
Liberty E. Holden

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