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hospitals, factories, churches, schools, courthouses, waterworks buildings, hotels, and family homes. One of the most notable contributions of the Hannafords to architecture in Campbell Co. is Newport’s Beaux Arts–style Our Lady of Providence Academy, formerly known as the Academy Notre Dame of Providence. The site at Sixth and Linden Sts. was purchased in 1902 by the Sisters of Divine Providence as the new home for their academy and dedicated in 1903 by Bishop Camillus P. Maes. The Diocese of Covington (see Roman Catholics) sold the building in 1983. Subsequent interior alterations converted the grand old building into apartments and extended-stay suites, and it has recently become a 40-unit upscale condominium complex that bears the name of its celebrated architect. Other Hannaford-designed structures in Newport include the Salem United Methodist Church and parsonage at 810 York St. and two stately mansions constructed for members of local beer baron George Wiedemann’s family. The George Wiedemann Jr. mansion, located at 401 Park Ave. in Newport’s East Row Historic District, was constructed in 1899 for the younger son of the brewery founder. The second structure, an imposing Victorian edifice, was known as the Wiedemann Estate or Mansion. Located at 1102 Park Ave. and constructed in 1895 on a tract in the Cote Brilliante neighborhood, this stately dwelling served as the longtime residence of George Wiedemann’s son Charles. Samuel Hannaford and Sons also designed several other Campbell Co. structures, including the St. Bernard Catholic Church in Dayton and the Newman Samuel residence and the Altamont Hotel, both in Fort Thomas. In 1880 Hannaford designed a Classical Revival structure for the Grant Co. clerk’s office in Williamstown at 107 N. Main St. In Kenton Co., Hannaford and Sons designed both incarnations of the Covington Protestant Children’s Home; the first structure, located at the southwest corner of 14th St. and Madison Ave., was begun in 1881 and housed 50 orphans; a site in Devou Park was later chosen as the location for a larger facility, constructed in the Colonial Revival style, that became known as the Children’s Home of Northern Kentucky in 1990. Hannaford’s firm was also selected by St. Benedict Catholic Church, which had outgrown its original churchschool combination, to design a church building. Located on E. 17th St. in Covington, the new church was dedicated in December 1908 by Bishop Maes. The firm served as architects for the St. Elizabeth Hospital at 21st and Eastern Aves. in Covington, completed in 1914 (see St. Elizabeth Medical Center). After a tornado in 1915 destroyed St. Joseph Catholic Church’s spire in Covington, Hannaford and Sons was chosen to design a new tower surmounted by a cupola. A Hannaford-designed cupola of 1898 replaced the original dome of the Boone Co. Courthouse in Burlington. In the 1920s Covington demolished the former Amos Shinkle Mansion at 323 E. Second St. It had served as the first home of the Booth Memorial Hospital, established by the Salvation Army
in 1914. Hannaford and Sons was selected to design a more modern facility, which served the people of Covington until 1979, when the hospital relocated to Florence, Ky.; the structure, now known as Governor’s Point, houses 49 condominium units. Within Covington’s Emery-Price Historic District, the Hannafords designed the Queen Anne–style Emery Row Building in the 800 block (810–828) of Scott St. In 1906 construction was completed on the Hannaford-designed Mother of God Church School building. Nearly a decade later, the Covington parish commissioned the Hannaford firm to design a replacement for the arched pediment, which had linked the Mother of God Catholic Church’s two distinctive bell towers, because the original had been destroyed when a tornado struck the area on July 7, 1915. Samuel Hannaford and Sons was also responsible for the design of many other Covington buildings, including the German Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the Bell Telephone Company building, and the residence of Rev. Adolph Rupprecht. In Mason Co., the firm designed the Hayswood Hospital in Maysville during the early 1920s. In addition to designing, over the course of about a century, some of Northern Kentucky’s most opulent structures, Samuel Hannaford and Sons also served as a training ground for many local architects and engineers, including Louis E. Dittoe (see Dittoe and Wisenall), Lyman R. Walker, and Louis Gustave Bouscaren. Leonard, Lewis Alexander, ed. Greater Cincinnati and Its People: A History. Vol. 4. New York: Lewis Historical, 1927. Schroeder, David E. “Community History– Covington.” Kenton Co. Public Library, Genealogy and Kentucky History. Kentonlibrary.com. www .kentonlibrary (accessed June 4, 2006). Tenkotte, Paul A. A Heritage of Art and Faith: Downtown Covington Churches. Covington, Ky.: Kenton Co. Historical Society, 1986. Tenkotte, Paul A., David E. Schroeder, and Thomas S. Ward. To Be Catholic and American in Northern, Central, and Appalachian Kentucky: The Diocese of Covington, 1853–2003. Forthcoming.
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HARDEMAN, FLORENCE (b. October 1886, Covington, Ky.; d. after April 1938). Concert violinist Florence E. Hardeman was the daughter of Capt. Thomas W. Hardeman, a Covington postmaster, and was a 1902 graduate of La Salette Academy in Covington. The family lived at 316 Garrard St. in Covington. Florence Hardeman made her debut as a violin soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra while in her teens, and she earned her graduate degree in music from the Cincinnati College of Music. In 1909 John Philip Sousa engaged her as a violin soloist for his orchestra, and she toured the United States for several years, performing at places like Cincinnati’s Music Hall and San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium. After touring with Sousa, Hardeman traveled to Berlin, Germany, in 1912 to study under violinist Leopold Auer. She returned to the United States in 1914, before World War I erupted, relocated to New
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York City, and studied with violinist Arrigo Serato. In 1916 she was given a 300-year-old, $10,000 Amati violin that had previously been owned by Ole Bull. The following year she toured the United States with actress Sarah Bernhardt. Florence Hardeman married Frank Hardeman (no relation) of Detroit, Mich., in December 1918, separated from him after eight months in 1919, and was granted a divorce by 1921. As late as April 1938, she was playing at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. “Florence Hardeman to Study in Berlin,” KP, June 8, 1912, 2. “Former Sousa Soloist Given Divorce Decree,” KTS, July 12, 1921, 25. “Miss Hardeman to Play with $10,000 Violin,” KP, March 20, 1917, 3. “Miss Hardeman to Tour with Sarah Bernhardt,” KP, July 21, 1917, 1.
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HARDIN, THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND WILLIAM DAVID HARDIN (Thomas Jefferson Hardin, b. October 19, 1834, Owen Co., Ky.; d. July 11, 1906, Monterey, Ky.; William David Hardin, b. November 6, 1842, Owen Co., Ky.; d. 1909, Monterey, Ky.). Brothers Thomas Jefferson Hardin, a lawyer, and William David Hardin, a merchant, were both active in the early life of the city of Monterey in Owen Co. Their parents were Thomas Hardin and Rachel Allen. The brothers grew up in Owen Co. on the Hardin Plantation, referred to as “Hardin’s Landing” during the heyday of Kentucky River boat traffic and during the Civil War. Their ancestors, the Ashbys and the Hardins, were owners of the Hardin Plantation long before Owen Co. was formed in 1819. Thomas Hardin Jr. assisted in establishing the city government of Monterey, which was formerly known as Williamsburg, Ky. He was engaged in the mercantile business there from 1859 to 1876, was a police judge from 1874 to 1878, and studied to be an attorney. At age 28 Thomas served with distinction as captain of the 9th Kentucky Cavalry during the Civil War, in the Union Army. On February 4, 1864, he married Florence E. Seston. In 1867 he became a charter member of Monterey Baptist Church; later, however, he transferred to the Christian Church with his wife and daughter. Thomas was a leading force in getting the town of Monterey enlarged by Kentucky statute in 1874 and again in 1881. He is given credit for organizing the Monterey city government and for writing the acts that established it, which were presented on the first Monday of August 1874. In 1876 Thomas was admitted to the bar at Owenton, where he served 34 years. In 1888 he became the first president of the First State Bank of Monterey. He was twice nominated as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress: in 1892 against W. C. P. Breckinridge and in 1898 against Evan E. Settle, and he was once a candidate for lieutenant governor of Kentucky. William David Hardin in 1867 was a charter member of Monterey Baptist Church and served for many years as church clerk. He married Minnie Vories on November 22, 1893, and the couple had five children. A lifetime merchant in Monterey, he