THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-KANSAS CITY K0206 Hare and Hare Company Records 1904-1979 220 cubic feet, ca. 450 cubic feet of drawings (1000 rolls), and ca. 100 oversize flat items. Records of Kansas City’s premiere landscape architecture and city planning firm who did designs throughout the Midwest and southwest. Includes drawings, photographs, correspondence and reports, publications and books, and personal papers. HISTORY: The architectural landscape firm, Hare and Hare, was founded by father and son, Sid J. Hare (1860-1938) and S. Herbert Hare (1888-1960). Sid Hare was a surveyor, draftsman, and photographer for the Kansas City engineer's office from 1885-1896. One of his jobs was to assist George Kessler, a landscape architect, who laid the foundation for the city's extensive parks and boulevard system. After serving as superintendent of Forest Hill Cemetery, Hare established his own firm, working independently until his son, Herbert, joined him in 1910. S. Herbert Hare was educated at Harvard and was one of the first six students in the United States to prepare for the relatively new profession of landscape architecture. Herbert joined his father in business, a partnership which would last twenty-eight years. Within the firm, Sid preferred the cemetery and park commissions, and Herbert handled city planning and other projects. By the end of the 1920's, the firm enjoyed a national reputation. Herbert was a consultant to city planning and parks commissions in such cities as Houston and Fort Worth. But in 1930, he was dropped from the City Plan Commission and the Park Board of Kansas City, Missouri, because he would not make political contributions based on a percentage of the fees his office would receive. The firm received no more city appointments during the Pendergast machine years. During the 1930's, however, Herbert Hare was part of a federal commission that wrote guidelines for subdivision zoning regulations that are still in effect. Hare and Hare designed concepts for a wide variety of projects in the Kansas City area and throughout the Midwest. They enjoyed a relationship with the J.C. SHSMO-KC September 17, 2013 REVISED K0206 Hare and Hare Company Records Page 2 Nichols Company and other developers, planning subdivisions and the Country Club Plaza. Other commissions included college and university campuses, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Fort Leonard Wood and other military installations, parks, libraries, cemeteries, schools, and hundreds of private residences. In cooperation with the J.C. Nichols Company and George Kessler (with whom Sid had maintained a professional relationship), they designed the nation's first planned industrial community of Longview, Washington. After Herbert Hare's death in 1960, the business gradually declined. In 1979, Ralph Oschner took over the company, and through innovative marketing practices and hiring decisions, re-established the Hare and Hare reputation. In addition to traditional landscape architecture services, Oschner, Hare and Hare provides professional assistance in rezoning and development cases, working with neighborhood groups, developers, and property owners on civic projects. PROVENANCE: This gift was received from Ralph Oschner as accession 0423kc on June 9, 1987. An additional accession, 0845kc was received on December 29, 1994. COPYRIGHT AND RESTRICTIONS: The donor, Ralph Oschner, has given and assigned to the University all rights of copyright which the Donor has in the Materials and in such of the Donor’s works as may be found among any collections of Materials received by the University from others. PREFERRED CITATION: Specific item; folder number; Hare and Hare Company Records (K0206); The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City [after first mention may be abbreviated to SHSMO-KC]. CONTACT: The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City 302 Newcomb Hall, University of Missouri-Kansas City 5123 Holmes Street, Kansas City, MO 64110-2499 (816) 235-1543 [email protected] http://shs.umsystem.edu/index.shtml DESCRIPTION OF THE PAPERS: This collection consists of the office files, research data, project files and reports, and drawings of the Hare and Hare landscape planning firm. Generally the records fall into three categories: administrative files, research files, and project files. An outline of the records follows: 1. Administrative files SHSMO-KC September 17, 2013 REVISED K0206 Hare and Hare Company Records Page 3 a) Financial b) Personnel c) Legal documents d) Public relations and histories e) Internal finding aids and office manuals, etc. f) Miscellaneous i) Lectures by Sid and Herbert Hare ii) personal and business related correspondence (mainly found in the pre-1959 job files) 2. Research files a) ‘Idea’ files (vertical file of clippings, photos, etc.) b) Legislative data (zoning, codes, etc.) c) Descriptive reports on specific geographic and political regions (census, reports compiled by other firms or government agencies, etc.) d) Books on planning, landscape architecture, etc. e) Journals and magazines 3. Project files a) Job files, pre-1959, without project numbers i) local ii) ‘foreign’ -- non-local iii) Ft. Leonard Wood iv) Texas b) Job files, post-1959, with a year designation (i.e. 60-xxx) c) Reports i) pre-ca. 1945 typescript with photos tipped in ii) post-ca. 1945 near-print copies d) Photographs e) Drawings and plans The bulk of the boxed collection consists of project files. Included in them are a large number of folded drawings, notes, photographs, and financial information regarding the job. Often, earlier material was pulled and filed with later working files when the company undertook revisions or new work for an old client. The company began using a job numbering system in 1959 with a two digit year followed by a one-up number for the job (i.e. 59.0001, 59.0002, 59.0003….) To maintain consistency, a similar number for pre-1959 job was created in processing. The year assigned is generally the earliest date but on occasion it was a later date. The job number is the link among the several kinds of documents (drawings, photographs, foldered correspondence and documents, and reports). Some non- integrated files and drawings are in boxes at the end of the series and will at some later date be moved into the appropriate files. SHSMO-KC September 17, 2013 REVISED K0206 Hare and Hare Company Records Page 4 Drawings are stored on rolls and placed into 3-foot boxes, 5-foot boxes, or if longer, are stored on open shelves. The database for drawings identifies the location of the various sized drawings. SHSMO-KC September 17, 2013 REVISED K0206 Hare and Hare Company Records Page 5 INVENTORY: Taken from the Hareb2k database, Caves 12/13/2005 BOX 001 JF ?? – 1911 BOX 002 JF 1912-1913 BOX 003 JF 1914-1916 BOX 004 JF 1917-1919 BOX 005 JF 1920-1922 BOX 006 JF 22.0052 (Longview, WA) BOX 007 Job Files, 1923-1924 Folder 1. Photographs-aerial-85th and Holmes area, Chestnut Hill Otr Job # Name Address City State Dates Comments Desc 23.0004 Sam F. Baker Not Richmond MO 1923 Available 23.0008 E.M. Mattes Indian Johnson KS 1923 Village County 23.0010 G.H. McCanles Not Kansas City MO 1923 Available 23.0013 Judge Henry L. 5235 Oak Kansas City MO 1923-1938 McCune Street 23.0018 Gerald Parker Rockwell Kansas City MO 1923-1924 Lane (Sunset Hill) 23.0019 C.R. Rathbone Not Kansas City MO 1923-1925 Available 23.0020 Frank Schopflin not available Mission Hills KS 1923-24 23.0023 R.O. Smith Belleview & Kansas City MO 1923-24 54th (Sunset Hill) 23.0026 Rollins & Rollins Not Columbia MO 1923-1925 Available 23.0027 Garber Not Enid OK 1923-1925 Available 23.0033 Cammack Prospect Little Rock AR 1923-1931 Avenue & McKinley Street 23.0043 Tulsa Bread Not Tulsa OK 1923-1924 Company Available 23.0045C Sunset Terrace (for 24th St. & Tulsa OK 1923-1924 Farmer & Duran Peoria Realty) Avenue SHSMO-KC September 17, 2013 REVISED K0206 Hare and Hare Company Records Page 6 Otr Job # Name Address City State Dates Comments Desc 23.0047 H. T. Lynch Not Wichita KS 1923-1924 (Subdivision) Available 23.0050 Country Club Place Monroe Bloomington IL 1923-1925 for Mercer Davis Street 23.0052 Peter Pan Park (for Randolph Emporia KS 1923, W. A. White) Street 1926- 1935, 1937 23.0054 Fieldston Highway 50 Johnson KS 1923, 1927 Subdivision (for J.C. and Shawnee County Nichols) Mission Road 23.0055 Romanelli Gardens Various Kansas City MO 1924-1926 23.0059 Monte Vista Burial Not Johnson City TN 1923, 1960 Park Available 23.0060 Houston Parks - Various Houston TX 1923- Flat 16 folders General 1943, Box 1949-1952 Item 24.0001 C.R. Rathbone 110th & Kansas City MO 1924-1925 State Line 24.0002 Sid J. Hare Not Jackson MO 1924 Neg of Sid Available County Hare 24.0009 Kansas City Art Not Kansas City MO 1924-1954 Commission Available 24.0013 National Flower Not Kansas City MO 1924-1925 Show Applicable 24.0019 Searcy Ridge 501 E 44th Kansas City MO 1924, 1948 Street 24.0020 F.N. Sewall 45th & Kansas City MO 1924,1934 Walnut 24.0035 C.C. Rutherford Not Leavenworth KS 1924 Available 24.0037 Station Park Gulf Street Lamar MO 1924 24.0046 Southern Methodist Hillcrest Dallas TX 1924, University Avenue 1942, 1952 24.0047 Park Hill (for The Forest Park Fort Worth TX 1924-1925 Fairmount Land Boulevard Company) 24.0048 Colonial Hills Not Fort Worth TX 1924 Country & Golf Club Available (for J. M. Leonard) 24.0049 H.J.L. Stark (Private Not Orange TX 1924 Golf Course) Available 24.0050 C.B. Hosford 11th & Lawrence KS 1924-1926 Missouri Streets 24.0051 Henry W.