Henry Hare

Hare's trademark -a hare, bottom right in the middle stained glass, at Westminster College, Cambridge

Henry Thomas Hare (1861–1921) was an English architect who was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire and designed numerous public buildings in Britain.

Hare was President of the Architectural Society in 1902 and president of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1917–19. His trademark is an etching or carving of a hare that he included in every building.

Selected buildings

• County Buildings, Stafford (1893–95)^[1]
• Oxford Town Hall, (1893–97)^[2]
• Passmore Edwards Free Library, Hackney, London (1897–99)^[3]
• Town Hall, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (1899–1900)^[4]
• Technical College, Southend-on-Sea, Essex (1900)^[5]
• Crewe Town Hall, Cheshire (1902–05)^[6]
• Carnegie Central Library, Hammersmith, London (1905)^[7]
• Fulham Central Library, London (1908), formerly Westfield House^[8]
• University College of North Wales, Bangor (1911)
• Westminster College, Cambridge (1899)^[9]

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  Oxford Town Hall
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  Fulham Library
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  Westminster College

References

Sources

• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Staffordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071046-9.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hubbard, Edward (1971). Cheshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071042-6.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Radcliffe, Enid (revision) (1965) [1954]. Essex. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-0710-11-6.
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.

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• Portrait by William Llewellyn
• Main Arts Building, Bangor University 1911 - Bangor Civic Society