Halfdan M. Hanson
Halfdan M. Hanson (* 1884 in Norway ; † 1952 ) (also HM Hansen ) was an architect from Gloucester in the state of Massachusetts.
The artist, born in Norway in 1884, came to the United States of America as a child .
His father Henrik Hanson worked as a rigger and built model ships and instructed his children in handicrafts. While working as a carpenter and carver, Halfdan Hanson completed a distance learning architecture course. He opened his first office in a house he designed and built in East Gloucester.
He is now particularly in collaboration with the designer and interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper built Beauport - now mostly under the name Beauport - known. The collaboration began in 1907 and dragged on for 27 years until the death of the client and interior designer, as he kept making changes and additions.
The office, which opened in Gloucester in 1912, employed four draftsmen, the majority of the projects were summer houses and residences of wealthy families in the Cape Ann area , the most important work of Hanson besides Beauport is the church 'Our Lady of Good Voyage' in Gloucester, built in 1914/5. Numerous works were created in cooperation with HD Sleeper and Henry C. Mercer .
During the First World War , Hanson was drafted and worked in Washington, DC, drafts for military installations and transport systems for heavy artillery .
In order to combat his advancing tuberculosis , the architect moved to Denver , Colorado in 1921 , but retained project management for the expansion of the Sleeper-McCann House; he returned to Gloucester in 1931, but his health was very bad.
The correspondence between Hanson and Sleeper is of great cultural and historical interest.
Halfdan M. Hanson died in 1952.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hanson, Halfdan M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norway |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1952 |