Hawk & Parr



Hawk & Parr was an architectural firm in Oklahoma. It designed many buildings that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Its Mission/Spanish Revival style Casa Grande Hotel, for example, was built in 1928 and was listed on the National Register in 1995.

It was a partnership of James Watson Hawk (born 1864), also known as J.W. Hawk, and Josepheus O. Parr (died 1940), also known as J.O. Parr. Hawk had worked as an architect in Oklahoma City since 1905; Parr arrived in 1911; the partnership ran from 1914 to 1932 when Hawk retired.

Works (with variations of attribution) include:
 * Besse Hotel, 121 E. 4th St., Pittsburg, KS (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Biltmore Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK, no longer surviving
 * Casa Grande Hotel, 103 E. Third St., Elk City, OK (Hawk and Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Commerce Exchange Building, Oklahoma City, OK, no longer surviving
 * Concert Hall (Now part of the Seratean Center for the Performing Arts), Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater, OK (J.W. Hawk)
 * Cotton-Exchange Building, 218 N. Harvey St., Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Engineering Building (renamed Gundersen Hall), Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater, OK (J.W. Hawk, successor to Hawk & Cook, Architects & Engineers)
 * Farmers National Bank, Oklahoma City, OK, no longer surviving
 * Garfield County Courthouse, W. Broadway, Enid, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed
 * W. T. Hales House, 1521 N. Hudson Ave., Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Harbour-Longmire Building, 420 W. Main St., Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Hightower Building, 105 N. Hudson, Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk, J.W. and Parr, J.O.), NRHP-listed
 * Magnolia Petroleum Building, 722 N. Broadway St., Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Noble County Courthouse, 300 Courthouse Drive, Perry, Oklahoma, NRHP-listed
 * McClain County Courthouse, Courthouse Sq., Purcell, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Norman Public Library, 329 S. Peters Ave., Norman, OK (Hawk and Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Oklahoma Club, Oklahoma City, OK, no longer surviving
 * One or more works in Oklahoma College for Women Historic District, Roughly bounded by Grand Ave., 19th St., Alabama Ave., and alley west of 15th St., Chickasha, OK (Smith & Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Perrine Building, Oklahoma City, OK, built 1927
 * Pilgrim Congregational Church, 1433 Classen Dr., Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Plaza Court, 1100 Classen Dr., Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Will Rogers Hotel, 524 W. Will Rogers Blvd., Claremore, OK (Hawk and Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Scottish Rite Temple, 900 E. Oklahoma, Guthrie, OK (Parr & Hawk), NRHP-listed
 * Tonkawa Lodge No. 157 A.F. & A.M., 112 N. 7th St., Tonkawa, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed
 * Tradesman's National Bank, Oklahoma City, OK, built 1921
 * Winfield Public Carnegie Library, 1001 Millington St., Winfield, KS (Parr,J.D.), NRHP-listed