Sidney John Hare (January 26, 1860 - October 25, 1938) was an American landscape architect. He worked with his son

S. Herbert Hare Sidney Herbert Hare (June 27, 1888 - April 18, 1960), better known as S. Herbert Hare, was an American landscape architect and urban planner. Hare was the seventeenth president of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Early life Sidney ...

with the landscaping company Hare & Hare.

Early life

Sidney John Hare was born on January 26, 1860, in

Louisville, Kentucky Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...

, to Isadore (née Bethurum) and Christopher Columbus Hare. He attended a private school in Louisville. Hare and his family moved to

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when he was eight. He graduated from the Central High School. In 1881, Hare finished a special course of study on surveying and trigonometry and received a special diploma from the Board of Education. He learned landscape architecture from George Kessler.

Career

In 1881, Hare was hired by the City Engineer's Office. In 1896, Hare was the superintendent of

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in Kansas City. He worked in this role for six years, leaving in 1902. In 1909, he opened a landscape architect office. In 1910, his son,

, joined his office. They named their business '' Hare & Hare''. Hare was hired by

J. C. Nichols Jesse Clyde "J. C." Nichols (August 23, 1880 - February 16, 1950) was an American developer of commercial and residential real estate in Kansas City, Missouri. Born in Olathe, Kansas, and a student at the University of Kansas and Harvard Unive ...

to design

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, including the Mission Hills Country Club, in 1913–1914. He was also hired by

Robert A. Long Robert Alexander Long (December 17, 1850 – March 15, 1934) was an American lumber baron, developer, investor, newspaper owner, and philanthropist. He lived most of his life in Kansas City, Missouri and founded Longview, Washington and Longv ...

to design Longview, Washington. Hare designed Point Defiance Park in

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and

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. He also designed locations in

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. With his son

, he designed the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the

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Death

In 1885, Hare married Mathilda A. Korfhage. They had one son and daughter, Sidney Herbert and Nellie. In 1924, Hare moved into a 20-acre home east of Swope Park. He named it ''Harecliff''. Hare died on October 25, 1938, at his ''Harecliff'' home in Kansas City, Missouri. He was buried at Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery in Kansas City.

References

1860 births 1938 deaths Architects from Louisville, Kentucky Architects from Missouri American landscape architects {{US-architect-stub