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{{Short description|American architecture firm}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = HLW
| logo = HLW Logo Square 2023.jpg
| logo_size =
| type = [[Limited liability partnership]]
| predecessor =
| founder = [[Cyrus Eidlitz]]
| area_served = International
| key_people = Susan Boyle, Richard Brennan, John Gering, John Mack
| industry = [[Architecture]], [[Interiorinterior Designdesign]], [[Landscapelandscape Designdesign]], [[Planningurban planning]]
| genre =
| products =
| services = [[Architecture]], [[Interiorinterior Design]]design, [[Landscapelandscape Design]]design, [[Lightinglighting Designdesign]], [[Strategystrategy]], [[Sustainabilitysustainability]], [[Graphicsgraphics and Brandbrand Designdesign]], [[Urbanurban Planning]]planning
| revenue =
| operating_income =
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| intl =
| foundation = [[New York City|New York]], [[New York (state)|New York]], United States ({{Start date|1885}})
| location = [[New York, NYNew York]]
| locations = [[New York, New York]]; [[Madison, New Jersey]]; [[Stamford, Connecticut]]; [[Los Angeles, California]]; [[San Francisco, California]]; [[West Palm Beach, Florida]]; [[London]].
| homepage = {{URL|www.hlw.design}},
}}
 
'''HLW''' is a full-service design firm headquartered in [[New York City]], with offices in [[Madison, New Jersey]]; [[Stamford, Connecticut]]; [[Los Angeles]] and [[San Francisco|San FransiscoFrancisco, California]]; [[West Palm Beach, Florida]]; and [[London]]. HLW is one of the oldest continuously operating design firms in the United States.
 
==Predecessor firms==
 
===Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz (1885-19101885–1910)===
The firm traces its origins to 1885, when [[Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz]] worked on the design of the Metropolitan Telephone Building on Cortlandt Street between [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] and [[Church Street (Manhattan)|Church Street]] in [[Manhattan]].<ref>An 1896 profile of Eidlitz lists his earlier works. Montgomery Schuyler, "C.L.W. Eidlitz," ''Architectural Record'' V (April 1896): 411-35411–35.</ref><ref>[https://www.amazon.com/1893-Print-Telephone-Telegraph-Building/dp/B005DGKMKO Print of Telephone and Telegraph Building] Amazon.com{{Dead link|date=January 2024}}</ref> Eidlitz was the son of noted architect and a founder of the [[American Institute of Architects]] [[Leopold Eidlitz]] and nephew of [[Marc Eidlitz]], a major New York builder. The commission began the firm's long association with what was to become the [[New York Telephone Company]] and, later, [[Verizon]].<ref>[{{cite news|last=Romero |first=Simon |title=TECHNOLOGY; Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly |date=15 October 2001 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/technology/15PHON.html?searchpv=nytToday&pagewanted=all ''|newspaper=The New York Times'' (15 Oct 2001)]}}</ref>
 
'''Works as C.L.W. Eidlitz:'''
*1885 -– [[Alexander Graham Bell]] commissions first Manhattan telephone building
 
===Eidlitz & McKenzie (1900-19101900–1910)===
Eidlitz formed a partnership with structural engineer [[Andrew C. McKenzie]], establishing the firm of Eidlitz & McKenzie, to pioneer a new building design. With Andrew McKenzie, he formed one of the first architecture firms that put architects and engineers on equal footing. Eidlitz and McKenzie worked primarily on telephone buildings, a new building type in the period.
 
In 1905, the firm designed [[One Times Square|The New York Times Building]]<ref>[{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A00E4DE1030E733A25757C0A96E9C946397D6CF ''NY|date=4 August 1902 |title=A New Home for the New York Times |newspaper=The New York Times'']}}</ref> on the site then renamed [[Times Square]] in its honor. The task was complicated by the simultaneous construction of [[Early history of the IRT subway|a subway]] at the building's foundation.
 
'''Works as Eidlitz & McKenzie:'''
*1900-19091900–1909 -– The New York Times Tower, No. [[1 Times Square]]
*1896-18971896–1897 -– Society House of The American Society of Civil Engineers, [[220 West 57th Street]]
 
===McKenzie, Voorhees, Gmelin, and Walker (1910-19261910–1926)===
In 1910, [[C.L.W. Eidlitz|Eidlitz]] withdrew from the firm. [[Stephen F. Voorhees]] and [[Paul Gmelin]], already with the firm became partners and Eidlitz and McKenzie was reorganized and renamed as [[McKenzie, Voorhees and Gmelin]]. This became a tradition of the firm: partners choosing their successors from within the firm in order to establish a smooth transfer of ownership. Over the next fifteen years, the firm added notable designs for clients in the telephone, banking and R&D industries, including labs for [[Westbeth Artists Housing|Western Electric]] (1922), the [[South Brooklyn Savings Bank]] (1924) and the [[Brooklyn Municipal Building]] (1924).
 
'''Works as McKenzie, Voorhees, Gmelin, and Walker:'''
*1910-19191910–1919 -– [[Barclay–Vesey Building|New York Telephone Building]]
*1922-19241922–1924 -– [[National Bible Institute]] School and Dormitory -, 340 West 55th Street
 
===Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker (1926-19401926–1940)===
Upon McKenzie's death, [[Ralph T. Walker]] became a partner, and the firm name was changed to [[Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker]].<ref name="Questionnaire">"Questionnaire for Architects' Roster and/or Register of Architects Qualified for Federal Works" [http://communities.aia.org/sites/hdoaa/wiki/AIA%20scans/Rosters/VoorheesWalkerFoleySmith_roster.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813220340/http://communities.aia.org/sites/hdoaa/wiki/AIA%20scans/Rosters/VoorheesWalkerFoleySmith_roster.pdf|date=2011-08-13 August 2011}} 26 September 1946.</ref>
 
For the next decade, the design and construction of a series of skyscrapers began at the firm with the hiring of [[Ralph T. Walker]]. Notable structures included the [[Barclay-Vesey Building]], completed in 1926; the Western Union Building at [[60 Hudson Street]], completed in 1930 and now a central technical facility; [[Salvation Army Headquarters (New York City)|Salvation Army Headquarters]], completed in 1930; the 50-story Irving Trust Headquarters Building at [[1 Wall Street]], completed in 1931; and [[32 Avenue of the Americas]], completed in 1932.
 
During the [[Great Depression]] Walker and Voorhees worked on the 1933 [[Century of Progress]] International Exposition in Chicago and the [[1939 New York World's Fair]]. The firm's [[1939 New York World's Fair pavilions and attractions#Production and Distribution Zone|Petroleum Industries Pavilion]] (1939) was critically well received.<ref>{{cite web|title=1939: Architecture -– Archive Article -– MSN Encarta <!-- BOT GENERATED TITLE -->|url=http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_461501032/1939_Architecture.html|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090920200057/http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_461501032/1939_Architecture.html|archivedate=2009-09archive-date=20 September 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=2009-10-19 October 2009}}</ref>
 
'''Works as Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker:'''
*1922–1926 – [[Barclay–Vesey Building]]<ref name="NYCL-1749">{{cite web |date=October 1, 1991 |title=Western Union Building |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1749.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915144201/http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1749.pdf |archive-date=September 15, 2020 |access-date=March 16, 2020 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |page=2}}</ref>
*1920-1929 - [[Irving Trust Company]] office tower, designed by [[Ralph T. Walker]]
*1922–1924 – 340 West 55th Street, originally the [[National Bible Institute]] School and Dormitory<ref>''Stone'', Stone Publishing Company, Volume 43, 1922, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JlQ6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA91 p. 91.]</ref>
*1930-1939 - [[Century of Progress|Chicago World's Fair]]▼
*1929 – [[New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building]], [[Newark, New Jersey]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IBJbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA860 |title=Princeton Alumni Weekly |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1927 |page=860 |issn=0149-9270 |access-date=August 8, 2024 |issue=v. 28}}</ref>
*1929 – [[Times Square Building (Rochester)|Times Square Building]], Rochester, New York<ref>{{cite book |last=Malo |first=P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E9qzEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT44 |title=Landmarks of Rochester and Monroe County: A Guide to Neighborhoods and Villages |publisher=Syracuse University Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-68445-021-3 |series=New York State Series |page=44 |access-date=August 8, 2024}}</ref>
*1929–1930 – [[Salvation Army Headquarters (Manhattan)|Salvation Army Headquarters]], 120–130 West 14th Street<ref>{{cite NY1930|page=154}}</ref>
*1930 – [[60 Hudson Street]]<ref name="NYCL-1749" />
*1931 – [[BellTel Lofts|101 Willoughby Street]]<ref name="NYCL-1749" />
*1932 – [[1 Wall Street]] (Irving Trust Company Building)<ref name="NYCL-1749" />
*1932 – [[32 Avenue of the Americas]]<ref name="NYCL-1749" />
▲*1930-19391933 -– [[Century of Progress|Chicago World's Fair]]
 
===Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith (1940-19551940–1955)===
In 1940, [[Max H. Foley]] and [[Perry Coke Smith]] became partners, and [[Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith]] was formed. The offices were recorded as being located at [[101 Park Avenue]], New York City.<ref name=Questionnaire/>
 
During World War II, the firm's contribution to the war effort began with a commission to design [[United States Army Air Corps|Army Air Corps]] bases in [[Trinidad]]. Laboratories geared to defense follow, along with structures at the [[Brooklyn Navy Yard]] and facilities necessary for the transport of heavy military equipment.
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During this period, [[Benjamin Lane Smith]], one of the firm's chief designers, became a partner; however the firm's name remained Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith.
 
Projects of note during this period included [[Argonne National Laboratory]] (the research center for the [[U.S. Atomic Energy Commission]] in Lemont, [[Illinois]]) and the [[Savannah River Plant]] in Aiken, [[South Carolina]], which was built on a site larger than the entire island of Manhattan.
 
'''Works as Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith:'''
*1940-19451940–1945 -– Bell Telephone Research Laboratory
 
===Voorhees, Walker, Smith & Smith (1955-19591955–1959)===
In 1955, Voorhees, Walker, Smith & Smith was formed, reflecting Foley's departure and [[Benjamin Lane Smith]]'s earlier inclusion as partner.
 
'''Works as Voorhees, Walker, Smith & Smith:'''
*1950-19591950–1959 -– School of Engineering, [[Columbia University]]
 
===Voorhees, Walker, Smith, Smith & Haines (1959-19641959–1964)===
In 1959, Charles Haines, a principal contributor to the firm's design work for research facilities, became a partner. [[Voorhees, Walker, Smith, Smith & Haines]] was formed. The main office of the company was located at 101 Park Avenue, New York City. The original building was replaced by a new building at the same location with the same address. During the 1959-19641959–1964 period, a branch office was located at [[2 Park Avenue]].
 
'''Works as Voorhees, Walker, Smith, Smith & Haines:'''
*1960-19691960–1969 -– NASA/[[History of Goddard Space Flight Center|Goddard Space Center]]
*1961 -– [[Stony Brook University#Campuses|Stony Brook University Campus]]<ref name=SBweb>{{cite web|title=Architecture and Design|url=http://www.stonybrook.edu/libspecial/collections/archives/sbbibliography.shtml#arch|work=Stony Brook University Special Collection and Archives|publisher=SUNY Stony Brook|accessdateaccess-date=12 May 12, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Voorhees, Walker, Smith, Smith & Haines|title=State University of New York, Long Island Center, Stony Brook-Setauket, New York :[developers]|year=1961 |publisher=Voorhees, Walker, Smith, Smith & Haines|location=}} Found at Stony Brook University Library Archives LD3844 .S82}}.</ref>
*1961 -– [[Eleutherian Mills]] Historical Library (since 1984 the [[Hagley Museum and Library|Hagley Library]]).
 
===Smith, Smith Lundberg & Waehler (1964-19681964–1968)===
In 1964, after [[Robert Lundberg]] and [[Frank J. Waehler]] became partners, a newly christened [[Smith, Smith Lundberg & Waehler]] was formed.
 
With the celebration of its seventy-fifth anniversary in the early 1960s the firm began to expand its operations internationally. At the same time, the office continued to design extensive testing and research facilities for both private and government clients within the United States. One notable example of this work was the [[Goddard Space Flight Center]], a multi-building project for the [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]], was completed in 1965 to implement President [[John F. Kennedy]]’s's commitment to put a man on the moon. With the retirements of [[Benjamin Lane Smith]] in 1966 and [[Perry Coke Smith]] in 1968, the Smith names were dropped from the firm of [[Haines, Lundberg Waehler]].
 
'''Works as Smith, Smith Lundberg & Waehler:'''
 
*1961 -– [[Stony Brook University#Campuses|Stony Brook University Campus]]<ref name=SBweb />
*1968 -– Searle Chemistry Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago<ref>{{cite web|title=Smith, Smith, Haines, Lundberg and Waehler|url=http://photofiles.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?show=browse21.xml%7C105|work=University of Illinois at Chicago Archival Photographics Files}}</ref>
 
==History of Haines, Lundberg & Waehler (1968-present1968–present)==
Following Perry Coke Smith's retirement in 1968, the firm's name was changed to [[Haines, Lundberg Waehler]], or HLW. International projects allowed the firm to bring their designs outside the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the Centro Sperimentale Metallurgico, a research center for the development of steel projects was completed on a {{convert|125|acre|km2|adj=on}} site outside Rome and the International Institute Of Tropical Agriculture, a research and housing facility on a {{convert|3000|acre|km2|adj=on}} site in [[Ibadan, Nigeria]]. In order to accommodate growth in its overseas practice, the firm created a new division of operations, HLW International, with its first offices in [[Beirut]] and then in [[Athens]] with projects extending to [[Lebanon]] and [[Saudi Arabia]].
 
In 1982, the first Midtown Manhattan office of the [[U.S. Trust Corporation]] was restored by the firm to the original 1896 design by [[McKim Mead and White]], while accommodating the requirements of a 1980s office. HLW won awards from the [[New York Landmarks Conservancy]], the [[Building Owners and Managers Association]], and the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.metrovsa.org/pastawards.htm|title = 凯发k8娱乐-官网}}</ref> In 1983, significant modifications were made for the existing Chemical Bank World Headquarters at [[277 Park Avenue]] in Manhattan. This design included the enclosure of an existing plaza to create Chemcourt, which provided the city with a park-like enclosed space.
 
Exactly 100 years after the firm's beginning with a commission to design the first telephone building in New York, a new project for NYNEX Corporation was initiated, as was a training center for [[The Travelers Companies|The Travelers]] Insurance Companies]] in [[Hartford, Connecticut]].▼
===Showcasing Adaptive Use Restoration/Adaptive Use Office Space===
 
In the decades since HLW's 100th anniversary, the firm has extended to broadcast, film and television industries. For [[20th Century Fox]] in [[Los Angeles]], HLW created a {{convert|50|acre|m2|adj=on}} campus that housed the first fully digital network broadcast center.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.akropolis.net/members/hlw_la/MODERNMB/medium.ahtml?ProjectId=S3R100AU1 |title=Member of Akropolis.net - the Internet Community for Architecture, Design and Construction |access-date=2009-10-19 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030507111318/http://www.akropolis.net/members/hlw_la/MODERNMB/medium.ahtml?ProjectId=S3R100AU1 |archive-date=7 May 2003-05-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The project incorporated several buildings, creative site/landscape design and over {{convert|1000000|sqft|m2}} of historical renovations. When [[Avon Products]] hired the firm to design a new global research and design center, HLW relocated the company from its old space into its new {{convert|227500|sqft|m2|adj=on}} facility in New York. Additional 21st -century work includes the [[United Nations Secretariat Building]] and North Lawn Conference Building, and [[Google]]’s's East Coast Headquarters at [[111 Eighth Avenue]].<ref>http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/esearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003594119&imw=Y {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>▼
[[File:Van Dorn Mill Then and Now - Mr Local History.jpg|thumb|VanDorn mill at turn of the 20th century and today.]]In 1980, Haines, Lundberg & Waehler acquired the Van Dorn Mill in the [[Franklin Corners, New Jersey]] section of [[Bernards Township, New Jersey]] to convert into office space. The mill had been vacant since 1941 and was in terrible shape, but they were not phased.
The mill's interior space was adapted by restoring the workings of the original mill while creating efficient office space for their employees. Restoration costs were estimated to be above $500,000, according to Frank J. Waehler, the partner who led the effort. The interior of the old mill was modified to accommodate 18 HLW employees along with restored power trains on the ceiling, a wooden exposed auger down the center of the facility, lower-level water wheel, pulverizing stones on the outside and other parts of the original hydro powered grist mill that date back to 1842 when Ferdinand VanDorn built the mill for just under $5,000.
 
===NYNEX and Travelers Buildings===
▲Exactly 100 years after the firm's beginning with a commission to design the first telephone building in New York, a new project for NYNEX Corporation was initiated, as was a training center for [[The Travelers Companies|The Travelers]] Insurance Companies in [[Hartford, Connecticut]].
 
▲In the decades since HLW's 100th anniversary, the firm has extended to broadcast, film and television industries. For [[20th Century Fox]] in [[Los Angeles]], HLW created a {{convert|50|acre|m2|adj=on}} campus that housed the first fully digital network broadcast center.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.akropolis.net/members/hlw_la/MODERNMB/medium.ahtml?ProjectId=S3R100AU1 |title=Member of Akropolis.net - the Internet Community for Architecture, Design and Construction |access-date=2009-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030507111318/http://www.akropolis.net/members/hlw_la/MODERNMB/medium.ahtml?ProjectId=S3R100AU1 |archive-date=2003-05-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The project incorporated several buildings, creative site/landscape design and over {{convert|1000000|sqft|m2}} of historical renovations. When [[Avon Products]] hired the firm to design a new global research and design center, HLW relocated the company from its old space into its new {{convert|227500|sqft|m2|adj=on}} facility in New York. Additional 21st century work includes the [[United Nations Secretariat Building]] and North Lawn Conference Building, and [[Google]]’s East Coast Headquarters at [[111 Eighth Avenue]].<ref>http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/esearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003594119&imw=Y {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>
 
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.hlw.com HLW International Corporatecorporate Sitesite]
 
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