Background
Emery S. Hall was born in 1869 at Chatsworth, Illinois, United States.
Emery S. Hall was born in 1869 at Chatsworth, Illinois, United States.
He was educated in private schools at Danville, he entered the University of Illinois and in 1895 was graduated with a B. S. in Architecture.
After a brief period of practice in Urbana (where he designed the First Baptist Church) Mr. Hall went to Chicago in 1897 and formed a partnership with Harvey L. Page, under the name of Harvey L. Page G Company. A few years later Mr. Page, moved to San Antonio, Texas, while Mr. Hall in the Chicago office carried on the firm's work until 1907. Later (1909-19) he practiced under the name of Hall & Baker, subsequently maintained his own office.
Throughout his career Mr. Hall maintained a general practice, designing both public and business buildings, residences and apartments, and some industrial plants. Among his early works were a number of churches, including the First Baptist at Marietta, O. in 1905; First Baptist at Duluth, Minn., 1906 and the Tabernacli Baptist Church in Chicago. He was also architect of the Parish House of the Riverside (Ill.) Presbytery; and the Y. M. C. A. College in Chicago. After the Iroquois Theatre disaster in 1903 he was commissioned to remodel nine theatres in Chicago to conform to new City Building Ordinances relating to theatre construction.
A former president of both the Chicago Chapter, A.I.A. and the Illinois Society of Architects, Mr. Hall was elected to Institute Fellowship in 1929. He was a recognized American authority on Architects’ Registration Laws, and had served as Secretary-Treasurer of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, and a member of the A. I. A. Committee on Education.