Alfred A. Hahn (1890–1964) was an architect in

Toledo, Ohio Toledo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. A major Midwestern United States port city, Toledo is the fourth-most populous city in the state of Ohio, after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, and according ...

and the founder of the Hahn and Hayes architectural firm. He designed the United States Post Office in

Oberlin, Ohio Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, 31 miles southwest of Cleveland. Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students. The town is the birthplace of th ...

(1934)Papers of Other Individuals
(Group 30) Oberlin College Archives in

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style. It was dedicated in 1933. The contract for the post office in Oberlin was $85,000. Hahn along with Harry Hake and Frank Bail designed the

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

style Ohio State Office Building (1929) at 65 Front Street in Columbus, Ohio. Hahn designed the Hillcrest Hotel, also known as Hillcrest Arms Apartment Hotel, at 1603 Madison Avenue in Toledo with H.J. Spieker. It is listed on the

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for Lucas County. The building was still in use in 2008 and part of a foreclosure effort over a loan default.
Toledo Biz.com story Hahn's son Alfred A. Hahn, Jr., was also an architect in Toledo architect and became a partner in the firm in 1940.

Projects

* Hillcrest Hotel (also known as the Hillcrest Arms Apartment Hotel), at 1603 Madison Avenue in Toledo with H.J. Spieker. * Ohio State Office Building (1929) at 65 Front Street in Columbus, Ohio with Harry Hake and Frank Bail * Oberlin Post Office (1933–1934) * Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Main Library, 325 N. Michigan Street, Toledo. Ohio

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hahn, Alfred 1890 births 1964 deaths Architects from Toledo, Ohio Art Deco architects