Hornblower & Marshall

{{Short description|Washington D.C. architectural firm}}

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Hornblower & Marshall was a Washington, D.C.–based architectural firm that was a partnership between Joseph Coerten Hornblower (1848–1908) and James Rush Marshall (1851–1927).{{archINFORM|arch|39338|Joseph C. Hornblower}}{{archINFORM|arch|36869|James Rush Marshall}} The firm designed numerous substantial government and other buildings, a number of which have been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

For example, the partnership won a competition with its design for the monumental, Beaux-arts style U.S. Custom House of Baltimore, Maryland, that was built in 1903 and which served as a Custom House until 1953.{{cite web|url={{MHT url|id=212}}|title=Maryland Historical Trust|date=2008-11-21|work=U.S. Custom House, Baltimore City|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust}}

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Other works by the firm include:

  • Fraser Mansion (1890), 1701 20th St., NW., Washington, D.C., NRHP-listed, a brick and pink granite Beaux Arts building
  • Duncan Phillips House (1897), 1600–1614 21st St., NW., Washington, D.C., NRHP-listed
  • U.S. Marine Corps Barracks (1907), 8th and I Sts., SE, Washington, D.C., NRHP-listed
  • U.S. Custom House (1907), 40 S. Gay St., Baltimore, Maryland, NRHP-listed
  • Lothrop Mansion (1908), 2001 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C., NRHP-listed
  • Samuel Hill House (1909), 814 E. Highland Dr., Seattle, Washington, NRHP-listed{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=76001887}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Samuel Hill House |publisher=National Park Service|author=Elisabeth Walton Potter |author2=Margaret A. Corley |date=December 1975 |accessdate=February 3, 2022}} With {{NRHP url|id=76001887|photos=y|title=accompanying two photos from 1975}}
  • National Museum of Natural History (1910), National Mall, Washington, D.C.
  • Engine Company 23 (1910), 2119 G, NW., Washington, D.C., NRHP-listed
  • Army and Navy Club (1912), 901 17th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
  • Maryhill Museum (completed 1926, after construction paused in WWI), SW of Goldendale, Washington on U.S. 197, NRHP-listed

The Smithsonian Institution holds the largest collection of Hornblower & Marshall documents.{{Cite web |url=http://sirismm.si.edu/siahistory/pdfs/horizonbib_3788.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-11-21 |archive-date=2012-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612223158/http://sirismm.si.edu/siahistory/pdfs/horizonbib_3788.pdf |url-status=dead }}

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