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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. [1]

It was a partnership of James Watson Hawk (born 1864), [2] also known as J.W. Hawk, and Josepheus O. Parr (died 1940), [3] 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. [4]

Works (with variations of attribution) include:

Notes

  1. ↑ No longer a hotel, has been renovated for use as senior citizens apartments. See Claremore, Oklahoma

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ Joseph Bradfield Thoburn (1916). A standard history of Oklahoma, Volume 3. American Historical Society.
  3. ↑ http://newsok.com/william-g.-parr/article/2486605 [ bare URL ]
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Terry L. Griffith (November 1999). Oklahoma City: Statehood to 1930. ISBN   9780738503141.
  5. ↑ County Courthouses of Oklahoma TR
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