Harding, Henry (1904-1984)
Dates
- Existence: 1904 - 1984
Biography
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1904, Henry Knowles Harding was educated at St. George’s School, Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from Princeton University in 1928, studied at the School of Fine Arts at Fontainebleau, Paris, and obtained his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1931. After graduation he worked for Charles Fairchild Fuller in New York and in 1935, he became a registered architect in New York and Florida.
Harding moved to Florida and apprenticed with the firms of Wyeth, King, & Johnson and Howard Major. In 1936, Harding opened his own office in Palm Beach, and later in nearby Ocean Ridge, where he practiced for forty years and designed over 400 residences and villas. Harding was known for his neo-classical designs and distinctive Bermudian-style roof lines. Among Harding’s major works are Deux Horizons, a lake-to-ocean estate in the south end of Palm Beach, and the original St. Mary’s Hospital in West Palm Beach.
Occupations
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
223 Orange Grove Road
The Property File Collection houses over 3,000 property files that document vital information about the built environment of Palm Beach. The collection is arranged by address and contains brochures, photographs, newspaper articles, historic designaton reports, and other relevant property information. All files can be scanned upon request, although a majority are already digitized.
Henry Harding Architectural Collection
Architectural drawings by Henry Harding encompass his work primarily in Palm Beach, the Maisonettes in Ocean Ridge, and the Village of Golf in Boynton Beach. Artwork by Harding consists of renderings filed in a scrapbook that were noted as, “pre-1955 Jobs Journal folio of pictures and plans for presentations”. Photographic material includes documentation of Harding projects throughout Palm Beach and Port Royal, Naples.
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