Samuel Hannaford

{{Short description|American architect (1835–1911)}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2011}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Use American English|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name =  | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Samuel Hannaford, Fetter's Notable Men of Cincinnati 1903.png | image_upright = | alt =  | caption = Hannaford circa 1903 | pronunciation = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{Birth date|1835|04|10}} | birth_place = England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1911|01|07|1835|04|10}} | death_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | burial_place =  | burial_coordinates =  | monuments = | other_names = | education = Farmer's College | alma_mater = | occupation = Architect | years_active = | organization = Samuel Hannaford & Sons | known_for = | notable_works =  | awards = }} '''Samuel Hannaford''' (April 10, 1835 – January 7, 1911) was an American architect based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Some of the best known landmarks in the city, such as Music Hall and City Hall, were of his design. The bulk of Hannaford's work was done locally, over 300 buildings, but his residential designs appear through New England to the Midwest and the South.

==Biography== Born in England, Hannaford immigrated with his family to Cincinnati at age nine.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uQg9XG6I9CsC&q=vas+you+ever+in+zinzinnati&pg=PA33 | title=Legendary Locals of Cincinnati | publisher=Arcadia Publishing | date=4 January 2012 | accessdate=7 May 2013 | author=Grace, Kevin | pages=33| isbn=9781467100021 }}</ref>

Hannaford attended public schools and graduated from Farmer's College, Cincinnati, where he studied architecture. Hannaford opened an office in 1857 and in 1887 formed the firm of Samuel Hannaford & Sons. At the time of his death, he was director of the Ohio Mechanics' Institute. Hannaford died in his home in Cincinnati on 7 January 1911.<ref name="Annual">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VMBBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA312 | title=American Art Annual, Volume 9 | publisher=MacMillan Company | year=1911 | pages=312}}</ref>

==List of works== This list includes works by Samuel Hannaford and, after 1904, works by his firm Samuel Hannaford and Sons.

===Cincinnati=== * Northside Methodist Church (1893) * Our Lady of Mercy High School (1897) * Balch House * Cuvier Press Club Building (1862–63) * Samuel Hannaford House (1865) * Cincinnati Workhouse (1869, demolished 1990) * St. George's Church (1872) * Cincinnati Observatory (1873) * Alms and Doepke (1878) * Music Hall<ref name="Annual" /> (1878) * Nast Trinity United Methodist Church (1880) * Cincinnatian Hotel<ref name="Annual" /> (1882) * Salem United Methodist Church (1882) * Elsinore Arch (1883) * Hoffner Masonic Lodge (1886) * Winton Place Methodist Episcopal Church (1885, and parsonage in 1888) * Lombardy Apartment Building (1885) * Ohio National Guard Armory (1886, demolished) * Eden Park Station No. 7 (1889) * Wyoming Presbyterian Church (1890) * Cincinnati Odd Fellows Temple<ref name="Annual" /> (1891?) * Phoenix Building/Cincinnati Club (1893) * Cincinnati City Hall<ref name="Annual" /> (1893) * Ransley Apartment Building (1895) * Hooper Building (1896) * Eden Park Stand Pipe (1894) * Price Hill Masonic Lodge#524 (1877) * Van Wormer Library at the University of Cincinnati (1901) * Hyde Park School at the corner of Edwards and Observatory Roads (1903) * Carnegie Library (1905 - 1906) at 3738 Eastern Avenue in Cincinnati * Emery Theatre (1912) * H.&S. Pogue Company Department Store (1916) * Hoffman Elementary School (1922) * Cincinnati Times-Star Building (1933) * Westwood Methodist Church Sunday School Building D. Meinken & Sons General Contractor * multiple houses in the Winton Place, Cincinnati residential district * John E. Bell Residence 306 McMillan Street. Cincinnati, O; 1881–1882- Destroyed.<ref>"''Samuel Hannaford used blue sandstone and Ohio River sandstone, popular buildings materials in Cincinnati at that time, for the construction of the Bell House. At the time of the construction the house was actually in a suburb of Cincinnati-Walnut Hills''". "American Victorian Architecture", by Arnold Lewis and Keith Morgan. Dover publications, 1975. 1886 pictures by Albert Levy</ref> * Mary A. Wolfe House * George B. Cox House, one-time home to renowned Cincinnati political boss George Barnsdale Cox, and later the longtime home to the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at the University of Cincinnati. Parkview Manor became the Clifton Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library system in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/branches/clifton.html|title = Locations | Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library}}</ref> * The Mutual Building, Covington, KY

===Miscellaneous=== *Waldo Building (1893) *Colonel Joseph Taylor House (1878) *Vigo County Courthouse<ref name="Annual" /> (1888) *Sorg Opera House Middletown, OH<ref>{{Cite web | title=Sorg Opera Revitalization Group | url=http://sorgoperahouse.org | access-date=2026-01-25 | website=sorgoperahouse.org}}</ref> (1891) * Terre Haute Union Station (1893) * Greene County Courthouse (1902) *Washington County Courthouse<ref name="Annual" /> (1902) *Monroe County Courthouse<ref name="Annual" /> (1905)

==Samuel Hannaford and Sons Thematic Resources== A 1978 study titled "Samuel Hannaford and Sons Thematic Resources in Hamilton County" was conducted which identified numerous Hannaford buildings for potential listing in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.<ref name=hannaford-tr>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=64000626}} |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Samuel Hannaford & Sons Thematic Resources in Hamilton County |author=Stephen C. Gordon and Elisabeth H. Tuttle |date=11 December 1978 |publisher=National Park Service }}</ref> This led to numerous actual listings of Hamilton County properties designed by the Hannafords.

==Gallery== {{Gallery |Image:Cincinnati Observatory.JPG|Cincinnati Observatory, 1873 |Image:Cincinnati Music Hall 2002a.jpg|Music Hall (Cincinnati), 1878 |Image:ElsinoreArch.jpg|Elsinore Arch, 1883 |Image:CincinnatiCityHall.jpg|Cincinnati City Hall, built 1888–1893 |Image:HooperBuilding.jpg|Hooper Building, 1893 |File:Ohio National Guard Armory, Cincinnati.jpg|Ohio National Guard Armory |File:Waldo Apartments Hannaford foto by andy hemmer cincinnati.jpg|The Waldo Building, 1893 }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.samuelhannaford.info The Legacy of Samuel Hannaford], an extensive guide to Hannaford's career

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