Prindle, Patrick and Associates

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Prindle, Patrick and Associates
Industry Architecture
FoundedColumbus, Ohio, U.S. (1957 (1957))
FounderTheodore Hord Prindle
Headquarters
Columbus, Ohio
,
United States
Area served
International
Key people
Theodore Hord Prindle;
Allen L. Patrick
Services Architecture, Urban Design, Urban planning

Prindle, Patrick and Associates was an architectural firm founded by architect Theodore Hord Prindle in 1957 as Titus & Prindle. The firm designed a wide range of buildings, but specialized in jails, prisons, and other correctional facilities. Its most notable projects include the Municipal Court, Hall of Justice, jail, and courthouse annex at the Franklin County Government Center in Columbus, Ohio, and the courthouse, jail, and county sheriff headquarters at the Justice Center Complex in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm dissolved in 1991.

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Firm history

After graduating from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in architecture, Prindle co-founded the architectural firm of Titus and Prindle in Columbus, Ohio, in 1957. [1] After his partner left the firm in the early 1960s, the name of the firm was changed to Ted H. Prindle and Associates. The firm opened an office in Clearwater, Florida, in 1966. [1] In December 1966, it won a contract to design the Franklin County, Ohio, jail in Columbus, [2] and it built a bank branch in Zanesville, Ohio, in August 1967. [3]

By 1969, Prindle had taken on Allen L. Patrick, a 1962 graduate of the University of Cincinnati, [4] and the firm changed its name to Prindle & Patrick. [1] Prindle moved to Clearwater in 1971, leaving Patrick to manage the Columbus office. [1] Patrick increasingly specialized in correctional facilities, courthouses, and similar justice-related structures, and the firm designed such facilities in Ireland, Nigeria, and Turkey as well as the United States. [5] The firm built a large number of justice-related structures in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, becoming extremely well known for its corrections work even as it continued to design a wide range of other structures. [6]

In the 1970s, Prindle & Patrick built a number of justice-related structures in Columbus, including the Franklin County Jail (1970), the 10-story Franklin County Hall of Justice (1973), the Franklin County Courthouse Annex (1975), the 19-story Franklin County Municipal Court (1979), [7] and the Franklin County Parking Garage (1979). [8] The Municipal Court won the firm a Bridge Prize for merit for its elevated pedestrian skywalk from the American Institute of Steel Construction. [9] The firm also renovated the county jail in Hocking County, Ohio, in 1973. [10] Prindle & Patrick designed the Sarasota County Jail in Sarasota County, Florida, in 1975. The county sued the firm in 1983 over a leaky roof, an exterior facade which broke off in sections, and poor plumbing. Prindle & Patrick countered that its design was not at fault; the contractor (which had since gone bankrupt) performed shoddy work, and Prindle & Patrick was not responsible for ensuring that the contractor did its job. [11] In 1976, Patrick designed a new jail for the city of Lexington, Kentucky, which replaced two facilities built in the 1800s. [12] That same year, the firm designed the massive Justice Center Complex in Cleveland, Ohio. This included the 26-story Courts Tower and the 10-story Corrections Center (which houses the Cuyahoga County Sheriff Department as well as the Cuyahoga County Jail). [13]

The firm designed its first major hotel in 1980 when it was given the commission for the Hyatt Regency Columbus. [14] The city of Columbus commissioned Prindle & Patrick and the planning firm of Edsall & Associates to prepare a redesign of Parsons Avenue, a major city thoroughfare. Their analysis, the "Parsons Avenue Urban Design Action Plan: Stage 1", was issued in 1981. [15] In July 1981, Prindle, Patrick and Associates won a major contract to build a number of elementary school buildings in Holly Hill, Ormond Beach, and South Halifax, Florida. [16] Serious problems emerged with three school designs in East Volusia, Florida, however. The roofs failed hurricane wind stress tests, and the heating and air conditioning systems often failed. The school board sued the Prindle, Patrick and Associates for mismanaging the projects—charges the firm promptly and strenuously denied. [17] In 1981, the firm also designed a new West Pasco County Jail in New Port Richey, Florida. But the county sheriff refused to house inmates there when it opened in March 1982, arguing that the jail's design was unsafe for his jailers. Prindle declared the jail safe, saying it was designed to be staffed by 54 jailers and that the sheriff was trying to make do with just 19. [18] In 1982, Prindle, Patrick and Associates completed work on the Pinellas County Criminal Court Building in Pinellas County, Florida. [19] But the building leaked severely, and the contractor sued the architects for providing a substandard design and requiring inferior materials. [11]

In 1982, the firm changed its name again to Prindle, Patrick and Associates (sometimes spelled Prindle, Patrick + Associates and occasionally referred to by the media as Prindle, Patrick & Partners). [20] [21]

Allen Patrick was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in May 1987. [22] Theodore Prindle retired in 1988, [1] and the firm changed its name to Patrick & Associates. [22] But the firm received fewer commissions after Prindle's retirement, and in 1991 Patrick dissolved the company and joined the architectural firm of Bohm-NBBJ. [23]

Prindle, Patrick & Orput

A subsidiary architectural firm, Prindle, Patrick & Orput, was established in Illinois in the mid 1980s to solicit business in that state. The firm's most notable commission was the DuPage County Jail in DuPage County, Illinois, designed about 1983. The 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m2), 354-bed prison immediately developed problems. Windows and skylights leaked, exterior bricks cracked, and the mortar between the bricks failed. The county decided against suing Prindle, Patrick & Orput, and sued the contractor for the cost of the $275,000 repairs. [24]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Obituary: Theodore Hord Prindle". The Columbus Dispatch. November 17, 2013. p. B7.
  2. ↑ "Franklin County Commissioners Appoint Ted H. Prindel and Associates, 556 S. Drexel Ave., Architects for a New County Jail". The Columbus Dispatch. December 14, 1966. p. A11.
  3. ↑ "Mutual Federal to Build Branch". The Times Recorder. August 24, 1967. p. 3. Archived from the original on May 18, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Pulse". Engineering News-Record. December 25, 1969. p. 149.
  5. ↑ "Allen L. Patrick, FAIA". AIA Columbus. 2016. Archived from the original on February 20, 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  6. ↑ "From Hyatts to Prisons - Patrick and Assoc. Designs Fit Builder's Needs". Columbus Business Journal. April 1, 1987. p. 3.
  7. ↑ Darbee & Recchie 2008, p. 56.
  8. ↑ Schooley Caldwell Associates (July 30, 2007). Franklin County Government Center Facilities Master Plan (Report). p. 17. Archived from the original on August 27, 2022. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Prize Bridge: 1980's Winners". American Institute of Steel Construction. 2016. Archived from the original on August 26, 2012. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Commissioners Eye Purchase Of New EMS Transfer Vehicle". Logan Daily News. November 2, 1973. p. 2. Archived from the original on May 18, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  11. 1 2 Simmons, Robin (August 22, 1983). "Local Contractor Tangled in Legal Web Over 2 Jails". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. p. 3BM. Archived from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
  12. ↑ "County Can Learn From Jails Already Built". Herald and Review. June 17, 1984. p. 3. Archived from the original on May 18, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2016; Schneider, Jay W. (November–December 2000). "A Case of Form and Function". Correctional News. Archived from the original on April 2, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  13. ↑ Litt, Steven (February 4, 2007). "Cleveland: A Brutalist Tour". The Plain Dealer. p. J4; Litt, Steven (May 28, 1995). "Jail II At Justice Center Could Scare Crooks Straight". The Plain Dealer. p. K3.
  14. ↑ Darbee & Recchie 2008, p. 148.
  15. ↑ Crumbley, Ray (February 26, 1986). "S. Parsons Ave. Facelift Gets Major Boost". The Columbus Dispatch. p. 8.
  16. ↑ "Architect Is Chosen For School". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. July 15, 1981. p. 13. Archived from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  17. ↑ "Schools: Some Contractors Waiting Before Filing Suit". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. June 19, 1984. pp. A1–A2. Archived from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  18. ↑ "Eight Pasco Inmates Relocated in Pinellas". St. Petersburg Evening Independent. March 12, 1982. p. A2. Archived from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  19. ↑ "Who Was At Fault?". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. August 24, 1983. p. A14. Archived from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
  20. ↑ American Consulting Engineers Council 1982, p. 87.
  21. ↑ "Patrick + Associates, Inc". Corporation Detail. Ohio Secretary of State. March 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  22. 1 2 "Allen L. Patrick, Pres. of Patrick & Assoc., Named to College of Fellows of American Institute of Architects". Columbus Business Journal. May 1, 1987. p. 17.
  23. ↑ Jackson, William (September 9, 1991). "Cash-Poor Allen L. Patrick, of Patrick & Associates, Inc., Joins Bohm-NBBJ Inc". Business First. p. 1.
  24. ↑ Crawford, Jan (September 13, 1988). "Contract For Jail Repairs Approved". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on May 10, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2016; Gregory, Ted; Presecky, William (August 10, 1992). "County Buildings Weather Streak Of Afflictions". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on May 10, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2016.

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