Michael Meredith Hare (January 17, 1909 – August 30, 1968) was an American architect. Based in New York City, he advocated for modernism in architecture.
Early life and education edit
In 1931 he married Jane P. Jopling; they had three children. During the Second World War Hare served in the U.S. Marine Corps.[1]
He later received a degree from Columbia University in 1935.[2]
Career edit
While a student at Yale, his experiences in Paris changed him.[3]
Hare later worked at New York architectural firm of Corbett and MacMurray, under famed architect Harvey Wiley Corbett. While at the firm, he was a part of a team of architects that helped construct Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall.
In 1936, Hare designed the Nordic Theater, a single-screen streamline moderne cinema in Marquette, Michigan. Initially the Peter White Building, the White family commissioned Hare to build the theater using an rare, unconventional design for acoustics. The Nordic Theater later served as the world premiere venue for the 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder.
In 1937, Hare designed the Wisconsin Union Theater at the University of Wisconsin.[4][5]
In 1954, Hare was appointed by the President's Commission to design the U.S. embassy in Honduras. While in Honduras, he began the study of philosophy, psychology, and psychical phenomena and wrote several books on these subjects in 1966 and 1968.[1]
He died on August 30, 1968, in Cambridge, England.[6]
Known works edit
Rockefeller Center (1928)
Radio City Music Hall (1931)
Nordic Theater (1936)[7]
Wisconsin Union Theater (1939)
Dau-Kreinheder Hall (Valparaiso University) (1955)
References edit
- ^ a b "Collection: Michael Meredith Hare papers | Archives at Yale". Drs.library.yale.edu. 1909-01-17. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
- ^ Archivesbuffalo.edu Archived 2018-10-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Frank Lloyd Wright Correspondence with Michael Meredith Hare 1933 1940 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives". Archived from the original on 2018-10-31.
- ^ "The Memorial Union Terrace a Landscape History". 16 April 2010. Archived from the original on 27 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- ^ "The Davis Amendment and The Federal Radio Act of 1927: Evaluating External Pressures in Policymaking" (PDF). cloudfront.net. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
- ^ "Michael Meredith Hare 1909-1968 - Ancestry®". Ancestry.com. Archived from the original on 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
- ^ "History". Nordic Theater. Archived from the original on 2018-10-30. Retrieved 2018-10-30.