Hawk & Parr

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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:

Besse Hotel, 121 E. 4th St., Pittsburg, KS (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]
Biltmore Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK, no longer surviving^[4]
Casa Grande Hotel, 103 E. Third St., Elk City, OK (Hawk and Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]
Commerce Exchange Building, Oklahoma City, OK, no longer surviving^[4]
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^[1]
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^[4]
Garfield County Courthouse, W. Broadway, Enid, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]^[5]
W. T. Hales House, 1521 N. Hudson Ave., Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]
Harbour-Longmire Building, 420 W. Main St., Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]
Hightower Building, 105 N. Hudson, Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk, J.W. and Parr, J.O.), NRHP-listed^[1]
Magnolia Petroleum Building, 722 N. Broadway St., Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]
Noble County Courthouse, 300 Courthouse Drive, Perry, Oklahoma, NRHP-listed
McClain County Courthouse, Courthouse Sq., Purcell, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]
Norman Public Library, 329 S. Peters Ave., Norman, OK (Hawk and Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]
Oklahoma Club, Oklahoma City, OK, no longer surviving^[4]
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^[1]
Perrine Building, Oklahoma City, OK, built 1927^[4]
Pilgrim Congregational Church, 1433 Classen Dr., Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]
Plaza Court, 1100 Classen Dr., Oklahoma City, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]
Will Rogers Hotel, 524 W. Will Rogers Blvd., Claremore, OK (Hawk and Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Scottish Rite Temple, 900 E. Oklahoma, Guthrie, OK (Parr & Hawk), NRHP-listed^[1]
Tonkawa Lodge No. 157 A.F. & A.M., 112 N. 7th St., Tonkawa, OK (Hawk & Parr), NRHP-listed^[1]
Tradesman's National Bank, Oklahoma City, OK, built 1921^[4]
Winfield Public Carnegie Library, 1001 Millington St., Winfield, KS (Parr,J.D.), NRHP-listed^[1]

Notes

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

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References

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.
↑ Joseph Bradfield Thoburn (1916). A standard history of Oklahoma, Volume 3. American Historical Society.
↑ William G. Parr The Oklahoman Archived 2012-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Terry L. Griffith (November 1999). Oklahoma City: Statehood to 1930. ISBN 9780738503141.
↑ County Courthouses of Oklahoma TR

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[6] No longer a hotel, has been renovated for use as senior citizens apartments. See Claremore, Oklahoma

[nris-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.

[History-2] Joseph Bradfield Thoburn (1916). A standard history of Oklahoma, Volume 3. American Historical Society.

[3] William G. Parr The Oklahoman Archived 2012-10-04 at the Wayback Machine

[OKC-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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