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H. L. Stevens & Company
Practice information
FoundersHarold Lyle Stevens
Founded1909
LocationChicago, 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
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]
  1. ^ Engineering News 61, no. 8 (February 25 1909): 65.
  2. ^ Western Contractor 18, no. 485 (April 27 1910): 4.
  3. ^ "Changes of Address," Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers 36, no. 6 (August 1910): 347.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Personal," Hotel World 90, no. 9 (February 28 1921): 17.
  6. ^ Canadian Engineer 53 (1927): 44.
  7. ^ "Personal and Miscellaneous," Construction News 34, no. 4 (July 27 1912): 12.
  8. ^ "Otis, Samuel Shackford," American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1955): 415.
  9. ^ Hotel Randolph NRHP Registration Form (2009)
  10. ^ Franklin Hotel NRHP Registration Form (2013)
  11. ^ Iowana Hotel NRHP Registration Form (2009)
  12. ^ Savery Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1998)
  13. ^ Hotel Ashtabula NRHP Registration Form (1985)
  14. ^ Penn Alto Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1989)
  15. ^ Schenley Farms Historic District NRHP Registration Form (1983)
  16. ^ American Contractor 23, no. 38 (September 23 1922): 42.
  17. ^ Manufacturers Record 83, no. 12 (March 22 1923): 99.
  18. ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 14 (October 2 1924): 193.
  19. ^ Burritt Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1983)
  20. ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 8 (August 21 1924): 111.
  21. ^ Parke Apartments NRHP Registration Form (2007)
  22. ^ St. Nicholas Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1983)
  23. ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 14 (October 2 1924): 191.
  24. ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 23 (December 4 1924): 307.
  25. ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 3 (July 17 1924): 38.
  26. ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 13 (September 25 1924): 176.
  27. ^ Engineering News-record 93, no. 3 (July 17 1924): 37.
  28. ^ Hotel Capital NRHP Registration Form (1983)
  29. ^ Hotel Van Curle NRHP Registration Form (1985)
  30. ^ Downtown Birmingham Historic District (Boundary Increase II) NRHP Registration Form (1998)
  31. ^ Bonneville Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1984)
  32. ^ Hotel Monthly (1926): 88/
  33. ^ Kevin Schindler and Michael Kitt, Historic Tales of Flagstaff (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2019)
  34. ^ Canadian Engineer 51 (September 26 1926): 47.
  35. ^ Canadian Engineer 53 (1927): 504.
  36. ^ Hotel Norfolk NRHP Registration Form (1988)
  37. ^ Hotel Bothwell NRHP Registration Form (1989)
  38. ^ "NTH.2123", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.
  39. ^ Bridgemen's Magazine 28 (January 12 1928): 150.
  40. ^ Hotel Vicksburg NRHP Registration Form (1979)
  41. ^ Leopold Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1982)
  42. ^ Julie Nicoletta, Buildings of Nevada (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2000)
  43. ^ Onesto Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1982)
  44. ^ Hotel Kirkwood NRHP Registration Form (2003)
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