Samuel Hannaford (4/7/1835-1/7/1910) Cincinnati, Ohio (F.A.I.A.)

Head of the firm of Samuel Hannaford & Sons organized in 1887 associated with Harvey E., Charles E., and H. Eldridge Hannaford, the latter his father's successor as senior member of the firm.

Samuel Hannaford was born in England, and when a small boy was brought by his parents to the US. The family settled on a farm near Cincinnati and the youth attended the city schools, later acquired a college education. With the ambition to become an architect, he entere3d the office of JHohn R. Hamilton as a student draftsman and continued his training with other architects until, at the age of twenty-two, he opened an office of his own on Third Street in Cincinnati. For a few years Hannaford carried on his work alone, then after associating in brief successive periods with Edward A. Anderson and Edwin Proctor, established a partnership with his two sons.

Throughout his long and active career, Hannaford engaged in planning both business and public buildings in the city. One of his earliest commissions was the first City Hall, erected between 1888 and 1893, and under the firm name he designed the old Music Hall' the Grand and Palace Hotels; Methodist Book Building' Odd Fellows Temple' buildings at the University of Cincinnati' additions to St. Xavier's College; General Hospital, built between 1911 and 1915; Hamilton County Memorial Building, 1908; and in addition many of the finest residences in the city. Hannaford or his firm were also identified with architectural work elsewhere including Annex to the State Capitol at Columbus in 1889, County Court House at Terre Haute, Indiana, and other public structures in different states.