Harry Hake Sr. (1871 – 1955) was a prominent American
architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
in
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio Ri ...
at the turn of the 20th century. His son Harry Hake Jr. and grandson Harry Hake III were also prominent architects
and partners in his firm, which at various times was named Hake & Son, Hake & Hake, Jr., and Hake & Partners.
Biography
Harry Hake followed a training at the
Ohio Mechanics Institute and the
Art Academy of Cincinnati
The Art Academy of Cincinnati is a private college of art and design in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded as the McMicken School of Design in 1869, and was a department of the University of Cincinnati, and later in 1887, became the Art Academy ...
. He extended his chief draftsman training by working with
William Martin Aiken
William Martin Aiken (April 1, 1855 – December 7, 1908) was an American architect who served as Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury and during his appointment oversaw and participated in the design and construction of numerous ...
,
Lucien F. Plympton, and
George L. Rapp. He was listed as an architect since 1897. His firm became Hake & Son in 1945, Hake & Hake, Jr. in 1948, Hake & Partners in 1971.
Works
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Crosley Field
Crosley Field was a Major League Baseball park in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was the home field of the National League's Cincinnati Reds from 1912 through June 24, 1970, and the original Cincinnati Bengals football team, members of the second (1937) a ...
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Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company Building (
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
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Cincinnati East Manufacturing and Warehouse District
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Ohio Judicial Center
The Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center is a state courthouse, office building, and library in Columbus, Ohio, in the city's downtown Civic Center. The building is the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Ohio, the state's highest court, as well ...
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Power Building
*Queen City Club (
English Renaissance
The English Renaissance was a Cultural movement, cultural and Art movement, artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginni ...
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Western Southern Life Insurance Co. Headquarters (Cincinnati, Ohio) (
Greek Revival
Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...
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Harry Hake is also listed as the architect on the tomb of former U.S.president William Henry Harrison. The tomb is located in North Bend, Ohio west of Cincinnati on Hwy US 50.
References
1871 births
1955 deaths
Architects from Cincinnati
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