Martin & Hall

Martin & Hall was the architectural partnership of Frank W. Martin (March 9, 1863 – February 2, 1917) and George F. Hall (1866–1928). It was based in Providence, Rhode Island.

History

The firm was founded in February of 1893 when the two men, who were both employed by Stone, Carpenter & Willson, decided to leave and open their own practice. However, some clients followed them, resulting in a rift between Stone, Carpenter & Willson and Martin & Hall. Due to this, both were denied membership to the AIA until the deaths of Alfred Stone and Edmund R. Willson.

The firm was dissolved in upon Martin's death in 1917. It was continued as Hall's private practice, who ran an office until his death in 1928.

Partner biographies

Frank Howard Martin was born in Seekonk, Massachusetts in 1863, just across the state line. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before leaving to work in New York City. He trained with several architects, including Richard Morris Hunt in 1886. In 1888 he opened his own office, but soon relocated to Providence to work for Stone, Carpenter & Willson, where he gained a high level of responsibility. He and Hall left in early 1893, and established Martin & Hall of February 1, 1893. He remained a member of the firm until his death in 1917.

Martin Hall

Martin Hall may refer to:

See also

Martin Hall (academic)

Professor Martin Hall (born in Guildford,England) is a British-South African academic and educationalist who has written extensively on South African history, culture and higher education policy. He is a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Salford.

Early life

Hall studied at Chichester High School For Boys, one of the two state schools in the United Kingdom at the time that prepared students for Oxbridge admission. He was the first in his family to complete university. He completed his bachelor's degree in archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge University in 1974.

Early career

He worked firstly in Lesotho in the area of archaeological excavation and then in London for the Southwark Archaeological Rescue Unit. He moved to South Africa in 1975 where he worked for five years as an ethnoarchaeologist in the Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg. He completed his doctoral studies at Cambridge in 1980 and moved to Cape Town in the same year. He then became Chief Professional Officer for the Department of Archaeology at the South African Museum.