By Janelle Gelfand
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Samuel Hannaford (1835-1911) was Cincinnati's master architect, whose firm, Hannaford and Sons, designed more than 1,000 buildings and homes in the Tristate. Born in England and raised on a farm in Cheviot, Hannaford drew on styles that were fashionable in England and the East Coast.

Hannaford's firm operated for nearly a century (1857-1964), and included early partnerships with Edwin Anderson and Edwin Proctor, and later, sons Charles and Harvey. Besides Music Hall, Hannaford-designed buildings include:

• Cincinnati City Hall, 1887-93

• Cincinnati Workhouse, now demolished

• Memorial Hall, Over-the-Rhine, 1906-08

• The Lombardy Apartments, 1881, 322 W. Fourth St.

• The Cincinnatian Hotel, 1882

• The Phoenix, 1893

• Alms and Doepke Building, 1888

• Elsinore, (the gateway to Mount Adams), 1883

• Emery Auditorium, and attached Ohio Mechanics Institute building, 1909 (home of the CSO 1911-37)

• Two astronomical observatories, Mount Lookout, 1873 and 1904

• Fechheimer mansion, Garfield Place, 1862

• Morrison house, Clifton, early 1870s

• George B. "Boss" Cox mansion, Clifton, 1895

• Weidemann House, Newport