Halfdan M. Hanson

Halfdan M. Hanson (* 1884 in Norway, † 1952) ( also HM Hansen) was an architect from Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Born in Norway in 1884, the artist came as a child to the United States of America.

His father Henrik Hanson worked as a rigger and built model ships and instructed his children in handicrafts. While he worked as a carpenter and carver, Halfdan Hanson completed his architectural training in distance learning. His first office he opened in a self-designed and built by his house in East Gloucester.

Today he is particularly relevant for the build in collaboration with the designer and interior architect Henry Davis Sleeper Sleeper - McCann House - known - now mostly under the name of Beauport. The collaboration began in 1907 and dragged on for 27 years until the death of the client and interior designers out there that could constantly make changes and additions.

This opened in 1912 in Gloucester office employed four signatories, a majority of the projects were summer houses and residences of wealthy families in the area of ​​Cape Ann, the most significant work of Hanson's next Beauport is the 1914/5 built church ' Our Lady of Good Voyage ' in Gloucester. Numerous works were produced in collaboration with HD Sleeper and Henry C. Mercer.

During the First World War, Hanson was drafted and worked in Washington DC Designs for military installations and transport systems for heavy artillery.

To combat its progressive tuberculosis, moved to Denver in 1921, the architect in the state of Colorado over, but kept the project management for the expansion of the Sleeper - McCann House in; to Gloucester, he returned in 1931, but was very affected his health.

Of great cultural and historical interest is the correspondence which Hanson chatted with Sleeper.

Halfdan M. Hanson died in 1952.