H.L. Stevens & Company was an American architectural firm that designed hotels around the United States.[1][2][3] It was based in Chicago-, New York-, and San Francisco. At least 15 of its works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places for their architecture.[4]
The firm specialized in small (less than 500 rooms) hotels and apartment houses in a Georgian Revival or Colonial Revival style in either a rectangular or H-shape, which in at least one case was viewed as a refreshing change from the small, squarish hotels that a city had previously experienced. Their buildings, primarily in the Northeast, are in many cases still extant.[1]
In 1912, there was some dispute surrounding the State of Illinois's approval of the firm as an architectural firm, because, as a corporation, it appeared incorrect to allow the designation of the corporation as a licensed architect.[5]
The firm developed hospitals during World War I. During that time, it created an integrated approach to design and construction that would be termed "fast-tracking" today; it applied this approach to its development of hotels starting with the Penn Alto Hotel.[3]
Works include (with attribution that varies in punctuation):
- Burritt Hotel, 67 W. Main St., New Britain, Connecticut, (Stevens, H.L., Company), NRHP-listed[4]
- Franklin Hotel, 176 East Main St., Kent, Ohio, (Stevens, H.L. & Co.), NRHP-listed[4]
- Hotel 24 South, 24 S. Market St., Staunton, Virginia
- Hotel Ashtabula, 4726 Main Ave., Ashtabula, Ohio, (Stevens, H.L., & Co.), NRHP-listed[4]
- Hotel Bothwell, 103 E. Fourth St., Sedalia, Missouri, (Stevens, H.L., & Co.), NRHP-listed[4]
- Hotel Capital, 139 N. 11th St., Lincoln, Nebraska, (Stevens, H.L., & Co.), NRHP-listed[4]
- Hotel Kirkwood, 400 4th St. (400 Walnut St.), Des Moines, Iowa, (Stevens, H.L., and Company), NRHP-listed[4]
- Hotel Norfolk (Norfolk, Nebraska), 108 N. Fourth St., Norfolk, Nebraska, (Stevens, H.L., Co.), NRHP-listed[4]
- Hotel Randolph, 200-204 4th St., Des Moines, Iowa, (Stevens, H.L., Co.), NRHP-listed[4]
- Hotel Van Curler, built 1925, 78 Washington Ave., Schenectady, New York, (Stevens, H.L. and Company), NRHP-listed[4]
- Hotel Vicksburg, built 1929, 801 Clay Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi; NRHP-listed[6][7]
- Iowana Hotel, 203 W. Montgomery St., Creston, Iowa, (Stevens, H.L. & Co.), NRHP-listed[4]
- Leopold Hotel, 1224 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham, Washington, (Stevens, H.L., Co.), NRHP-listed[4]
- Onesto Hotel, 2nd and Cleveland, NW, Canton, Ohio, (Stevenson, H.L.), NRHP-listed[4]
- Parke Apartments, 33 Gates Circle, Buffalo, New York, (Stevens, H.L. & Co.), NRHP-listed[4]
- Penn Alto Hotel, 12th St. and 13th Ave., Altoona, Pennsylvania, (Stevens, H.L., Co.), NRHP-listed[4]
- Savery Hotel, 401 Locust St., Des Moines, Iowa, (Stevens, H.L. & Co.), NRHP-listed[4]
- One or more works in Downtown Birmingham Historic District, boundary increase II: roughly along 23rd St. and 3rd Ave., bounded by 5th Ave., 22nd St., and 2nd Ave., Birmingham, Alabama, (Stevens, H.L.), NRHP-listed[4]
- One or more buildings in the Iowa City Downtown Historic District, NRHP-listed[8]
References
edit- ^ a b Breyer, Lucy (August 1985). "National Register of Historic Places nomination, Hotel Van Curler". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved September 17, 2009.
- ^ "Historic buildings".
- ^ a b "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2013-05-21. Note: This includes Richard T. Brandt Jr. (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Penn Alto Hotel" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-03.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Biennial Report of the Attorney General of the State of Illinois. September 1912. pp. 1171–72.
- ^ "Hotel Vicksburg". NPGallery Digital Asset Management System.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hotel Vicksburg". National Park Service. June 4, 1979. Retrieved July 19, 2024. With accompanying pictures
- ^ Alexa McDowell. "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Iowa City Downtown Historic District" (PDF). City of Iowa City. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
External links
edit- Photos of H.L. Stevens & Co. buildings, at phorio.com