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H. L. Stevens & Company | |
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Practice information | |
Founders | Harold Lyle Stevens |
Founded | 1909 |
Location | Chicago, Illinois |
H. L. Stevens & Company was an architecture, engineering and general contracting firm, established in 1909 and based for most of its existence in Chicago. The firm specialized in the design, engineering and construction of hotels and apartment buildings.
Harold Lyle Stevens was born on November 23, 1876 in Tomah, Wisconsin.
He attended the University of Wisconsin, and graduated in 1903 with a B. S. in Civil Engineering. That same year he was appointed Provincial Supervisor for public works of the province of Sorsogon, the Philippines, under Governor Luke E. Wright. There, he was responsible for the design and construction of many bridges. He returned home to Wisconsin in 1905, and established a practice as a consulting engineer in La Crosse. In 1908, he moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he incorporated the H. L. Stevens Company, contractors. This firm also maintained offices in Houston. In early 1909 Stevens left the firm, which became the American Construction Company of Houston.[1] Stevens started a new firm, H. L. Stevens & Company, in Atlanta with fellow engineer Theodore P. Moorehead. By 1910 the firm had branch offices in Fort Worth, El Paso and Houston, Texas, and in that year opened a new office at Kansas City under the management of Walter S. Haldeman.[2] Later that year an office, under the management of T. P. Moorehead, was added at Seattle.[3] This was moved to Vancouver in 1911.
Later in the same year, the firm was re-incorporated in Illinois, and Stevens moved its main office to Chicago. There was a brief dispute over whether or not H. L. Stevens & Company, as a corporation and not an individual, could practice architecture. The State came to the decision that the firm was authorized to perform architectural services for buildings it would build itself, but not design buildings for others to build.[4] In 1921 the firm added an East Coast headquarters, located in New York and under the direction of Charles A. Moore.[5] This was followed in 1923 with a West Coast office at San Francisco, managed by Moorehead, which continued until 1930. A new Canadian office at Toronto was added in 1927.[6]
From about 1910 to 1912, the chief architect of the firm was Rube S. Frodin, who left to begin his own practice in the latter year.[7] He was replaced by supervising architect O. C. Gross, though Frodin was back with the Stevens organization by 1918. The architect Samuel Shackford Otis was a designer with the firm during 1924-1930 and 1940-1941.[8]
Year | Project | Address | City | State | Notes | Service Type | Image | Reference |
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1911 | Hotel Randolph | 202 4th St | Des Moines | Iowa | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. | Design and construction. | [9] | |
1919 | Franklin Hotel | 176 E Main St | Kent | Ohio | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. | Design and construction. | [10] | |
1919 | Iowana Hotel | 203 W Montgomery St | Creston | Iowa | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. | Design and construction. | [11] | |
1919 | Savery Hotel | 401 Locust St | Des Moines | Iowa | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. | Design and construction. | [12] | |
1920 | Hotel Ashtabula | 4726 Main Ave | Ashtabula | Ohio | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. | Design and construction. | [13] | |
1920 | Marvin Hughitt Hotel | 375 Dakota Ave S | Huron | South Dakota | Design and construction. | |||
1921 | Penn Alto Hotel | 1130 Thirteenth Ave | Altoona | Pennsylvania | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. | Design and construction. | [14] | |
1921 | Ruskin Apartments | 120 Ruskin Ave | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | Now Ruskin Hall of the University of Pittsburgh. A contributing property to the Schenley Farms Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. | Design and construction. | [15] | |
1922 | The Churchill | 1255 N State Pkwy | Chicago | Illinois | Design and construction. | |||
1922 | Colonial Hotel | 19 City Hall Ave | Gardner | Massachusetts | Design and construction. | [16] | ||
1923 | Stonewall Jackson Hotel | 24 S Market St | Staunton | Virginia | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. | Design and construction. | [17] | |
1924 | Expansion of the Bancroft Hotel | 50 Franklin St | Worcester | Massachusetts | Design and construction. | [18] | ||
1924 | Burritt Hotel | 67 W Main St | New Britain | Connecticut | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. | Design and construction. | [19] | |
1924 | Hawthorne Hotel | 18 Washington Sq W | Salem | Massachusetts | Construction only. Smith & Walker, architects. | [20] | ||
1924 | Parke Apartments | 33 Gates Cir | Buffalo | New York | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. | Design and construction. | [21] | |
1924 | St. Nicholas Hotel | 400 E Jefferson St | Springfield | Illinois | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. | Design and construction. | [22] | |
1924 | Valley Forge Hotel | 20 E Main St | Norristown | Pennsylvania | Demolished. | Design and construction. | [23] | |
1924 | Hotel | Rue Wellington | Sherbrooke | Quebec, Canada | The Hotel Wellington? Built 1928? | Design and construction. | [24] | |
1924 | Expansion of the Wendell Hotel | South and West Sts | Pittsfield | Massachusetts | Demolished. | Design and construction. | [25] | |
1924 | White Swan Hotel | 117 W Main St | Uniontown | Pennsylvania | Design and construction. | [26] | ||
1924 | Walt Whitman Hotel | 200 Broadway | Camden | New Jersey | Demolished in 1977. | Design and construction. | [27] | |
1925 | Hotel Capital | 139 N 11th St | Lincoln | Nebraska | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. | Design and construction. | [28] | |
1925 | Hotel Van Curler | 78 Washington Ave | Schenectady | New York | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. | Design and construction. | [29] | |
1926 | Bankhead Hotel | 2300 Fifth Ave N | Birmingham | Alabama | A contributing property to the Downtown Birmingham Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. | Design and construction. | [30] | |
1926 | Bonneville Hotel | 635 Park Ave | Idaho Falls | Idaho | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[31] | Design and construction. | [32] | |
1926 | Hotel Monte Vista | 100 N San Francisco St | Flagstaff | Arizona | Design and construction. | [33] | ||
1926 | Lord Nelson Hotel | 1515 S Park St | Halifax | Nova Scotia, Canada | Construction only. Warren & Wetmore, architects. | [34][35] | ||
1926 | Hotel Norfolk | 108 N 4th St | Norfolk | Nebraska | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. | Design and construction. | [36] | |
1927 | Hotel Bothwell | 103 E 4th St | Sedalia | Missouri | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. | Design and construction. | [37] | |
1927 | Hotel Northampton | 36 King St | Northampton | Massachusetts | Design and construction. | [38] | ||
1927 | Pittsburgher Hotel | 428 Forbes Ave | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | Design and construction. | [39] | ||
1928 | Hotel Vicksburg | 801 Clay St | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. | Design and construction. | [40] | |
1929 | Leopold Hotel | 1224 Cornwall Ave | Bellingham | Washington | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. | Design and construction. | [41] | |
1929 | Hotel Nevada | 501 Aultman St | Ely | Nevada | Design and construction. | [42] | ||
1929 | Onesto Hotel | 4726 Main Ave | Canton | Ohio | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. | Design and construction. | [43] | |
1930 | Hotel Kirkwood | 400 Walnut St | Des Moines | Iowa | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. | Design and construction. | [44] |
- ^ Engineering News 61, no. 8 (February 25 1909): 65.
- ^ Western Contractor 18, no. 485 (April 27 1910): 4.
- ^ "Changes of Address," Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers 36, no. 6 (August 1910): 347.
- ^ "Architects - Practicing Architecture by Corporations," Biennial Report of the Attorney General of the State of Illinois, December, 1912 (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Journal Company, 1913): 1171-1176.
- ^ "Personal," Hotel World 90, no. 9 (February 28 1921): 17.
- ^ Canadian Engineer 53 (1927): 44.
- ^ "Personal and Miscellaneous," Construction News 34, no. 4 (July 27 1912): 12.
- ^ "Otis, Samuel Shackford," American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1955): 415.
- ^ Hotel Randolph NRHP Registration Form (2009)
- ^ Franklin Hotel NRHP Registration Form (2013)
- ^ Iowana Hotel NRHP Registration Form (2009)
- ^ Savery Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1998)
- ^ Hotel Ashtabula NRHP Registration Form (1985)
- ^ Penn Alto Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1989)
- ^ Schenley Farms Historic District NRHP Registration Form (1983)
- ^ American Contractor 23, no. 38 (September 23 1922): 42.
- ^ Manufacturers Record 83, no. 12 (March 22 1923): 99.
- ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 14 (October 2 1924): 193.
- ^ Burritt Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1983)
- ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 8 (August 21 1924): 111.
- ^ Parke Apartments NRHP Registration Form (2007)
- ^ St. Nicholas Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1983)
- ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 14 (October 2 1924): 191.
- ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 23 (December 4 1924): 307.
- ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 3 (July 17 1924): 38.
- ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 13 (September 25 1924): 176.
- ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 3 (July 17 1924): 37.
- ^ Hotel Capital NRHP Registration Form (1983)
- ^ Hotel Van Curle NRHP Registration Form (1985)
- ^ Downtown Birmingham Historic District (Boundary Increase II) NRHP Registration Form (1998)
- ^ Bonneville Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1984)
- ^ Hotel Monthly (1926): 88/
- ^ Kevin Schindler and Michael Kitt, Historic Tales of Flagstaff (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2019)
- ^ Canadian Engineer 51 (September 26 1926): 47.
- ^ Canadian Engineer 53 (1927): 504.
- ^ Hotel Norfolk NRHP Registration Form (1988)
- ^ Hotel Bothwell NRHP Registration Form (1989)
- ^ "NTH.2123", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.
- ^ Bridgemen's Magazine 28 (January 12 1928): 150.
- ^ Hotel Vicksburg NRHP Registration Form (1979)
- ^ Leopold Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1982)
- ^ Julie Nicoletta, Buildings of Nevada (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2000)
- ^ Onesto Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1982)
- ^ Hotel Kirkwood NRHP Registration Form (2003)