Halfdan Marinius Hanson (November 30, 1884 – September 12, 1952) was a Norwegian-born American architect. He was born in

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. He emigrated as an infant to

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, where his father was a ship's rigger. In 1904, he completed a correspondence course in architecture from a program based in

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. Hanson had a longtime collaboration with interior designer

Henry Davis Sleeper Henry Davis Sleeper (March 27, 1878 – September 22, 1934) was an American antiquarian, collector, and interior decorator best known for Beauport, his Gloucester, Massachusetts, country home that is "one of the most widely published houses of ...

, the owner of the Beauport in

.Hollister, Paul (1981). "The Building of Beauport, 1907-1924," ''The American Art Journal'' 8(1) He was an architect in the employment of Sleeper for twenty-seven years. He was also the architect of or contributor to over 100 properties principally within greater

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area including the communities of Gloucester, Rockport,

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, Beverly and

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. Other notable properties designed by Hanson include Our Lady of Good Voyage Church, which is, along with Beauport, on the

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References

Other sources

* Bohl, David; Nancy Curtis, Richard C. Nylander, Joseph Garland, Paul Hollister, Philip A. Hayden (1990). ''Beauport: The Sleeper McCann House'' (Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities) * O'Gorman, James F. (Ed.) (2010). ''Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England'' (Tilbury House Publishers)

External links

Exterior view of Our Lady of Good Voyage Church, Gloucester, Mass.

accessed April 21, 2015 * ttp://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/Beauport Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House web site {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanson, Halfdan M. 1884 births 1952 deaths People from Vestfold People from Tønsberg 20th-century American architects Architects from Massachusetts Architects of Roman Catholic churches Norwegian emigrants to the United States