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Laramie 19th-20th CenturyArchitecture:
Lessons from the Past
Judy Knight, Collection Manager
Laramie Plains Museum
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OBJECTIVES
• Identify works of architects, designers, builders; roles of each
• Summarize the built environment as society related to it
• Identify leaders in shaping spaces—creating wellbeing for public
• Structures as problem-solving spaces; constraints and/or components
• Aesthetics / Function: compatible?
• Architects/planners’ role in creating livable communities
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Laramie, 1868: A Wide-open Wild Town With mobile housing—“Keystone” was in Cheyenne first--Thomas Magee breakfasted
in Laramie tent, June, 1868 UPRR photo by Andrew J. Russell
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POST RAILROAD FOLKS. “A” (Ivinson) near 2nd St.
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KUSTER HOTEL104-110 S. “A”
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TRANSFORMATION
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Laramie 1871
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CHARLES & ROWENAHUTTON HOUSE, 1872
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Early Laramie Architects/Builders1871: James Adams; Blackburn & Metcalfe
1876: Charles Klingerman; B.J. Bristol, Jno. Davis, L.W. Schroder
C. 1871 310 S. 10th StreetGOTHIC REVIVALHolt/ Knight/Chambers House
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S. “B” & 10th St., 1871-1925
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Turned c. 1925 by Prof. Sam Knight
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CLASSIC REVIVAL—1873Marsh House: 509 S. “A”
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2018
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Albany County Courthouse 1930 (Hitchcock/Dubois)
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LARAMIE, 1887
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COLLEGIATE TUDOR/ITALIANATEOld Main c. 1900Fredrick Hale, Denver Architect$50,000 in 1886Tower removed, 1915—cracked
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LARAMIE EXPANSION1932, looking north—9th St.Lower right, Laramie HighLeft: East Side School, 18782018 Laramie Civic Center
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3rd St. and Ivinson Ave., NW corner: 1905-1960 Laramie Post Office Beaux Arts Style
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SPANISH ECLECTIC STYLE—A CLOSE CALLCooper House, 1921, UW 1988Wilbur A. Hitchcock, Architect
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1892 House PlanLaramie BoomerangSept. 12, 1892First showing bath7 bedrooms
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Above, Loveland, CO; Below: Laramie, 1035 Boswell Drive, both 2018
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ART MODERNE STYLELeft, 1415 Custer, 1940Below, 1420 Grand, 1935
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IMH: Wilbur Hitchcock, 19151936 & 1950 additions2018 UW parking lot
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Notable Laramie Architects 19th – 20th C.
Walter E. Ware1861-1949
Wilbur Arthur Hitchcock1886-1930
Gus Hollo1905-1999
Peter R. Hanson1926-1991
Eliot Hitchcock1915-1996
Clinton Hitchcock1919-2003
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1892 Ivinson Mansion 603 Ivinson Ave.1972, Laramie Plains Museum
Walter Ware• Active in Laramie after 1888• 1st architect admitted to AIA in
Salt Lake City
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• Civil Engineering UW, 1908• Designed houses for professors while a student• Married Gladys Corthell, 1914, she died in 1925• Grad student at UW, MS at CU in Civil Engineering, 1916• UW faculty and campus planner until 1922• 1922-30 private practice, 206 Grand Ave.• Remarried 1930, Verna Johanessen• Died on honeymoon in Los Angeles, 11 days later, age 44• Left over 578 plans, 454 at American Heritage Center, UW
Wilbur A. Hitchcock
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McWhinnie Hall, UW Campus, 1920
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1909 Bode House 200 S. 10th St.
c. 1920, Kappa Sigma House Fraternity Mall, UW
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Dr. Price Home, 1917 1117 Grand Ave.
Ivinson Home for Ladies, 19302301 Grand Avenue
NO GARAGESON FAÇADE
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1942 Northen home1722 Rainbow St.
Charles Gustav Hollo • Sheridan, WY, youngest of 3 children• Attended 3 colleges, graduated from none• Married Frances Heathcote, English pianist in
Paris • 1927-1928,L’ecole d’Beaux Arts in Paris• Apprenticed to City Engineer in Sheridan• Became licensed Wyoming engineer• Moved to Laramie in 1936, in private practice• FHA in Casper after 1945• Cheyenne, c. 1950, Morris Kemper his draftsman• Chief of planning for US naval bases on Pacific • Coast, 1950-1976
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1937 Hollo’s “Experimental” poured concrete home for Duncan Williams, Mgr. of Laramie’s Monolith Portland Cement Co. Sold in 1948 to Jim and June Boyle. 706 South 14th St.
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1937 Hollo’s design for Frances and himself, “Upside down house” because kitchen and living room are on the top floor, bedrooms on first. 1610 Rainbow
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Eliot & Clinton Hitchcock
• Oldest sons of W.A. Hitchcock• UW Civil Engineering grads• Eliot: MS Iowa State College• Eliot: Apprenticed with Hollo• Both: Army service in WWII• Eliot practiced alone 1946+• Hitchcock & Hitchcock 1948-
1987• Plans archived at UW AHC
with their father’s
66 Corthell Rd., Duplex 1958
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Peter Hanson
1883? Meldrum homeRemodeled 1920 by W.A. HitchcockHanson home, c. 1958-present701 (703) Ivinson Ave.
• North Platte NE native• Cheyenne H.S. Graduate, 1944• US Navy • UW 1946-50, Civil Engineering• Married Mary Louise 1951• Worked for Hitchcocks 1951-1958• Independent practice, 1958-1962• UW faculty, Engineering 1962-1986
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c. 1970 High Plains Stoves Building, 415 S. 5th St.
c. 1975 Lutheran CampusCenter, 1309 Grand Ave.
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c. 1958 Hanson’s Flittie House, now UW guesthouse220 Corthell Road
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CAPE COD ‘WHOLE HOUSE’ STYLE1922 Fred “Bunk” Porter, Cheyenne ArchitectThurman Arnold home, 318 S. 15th St.