Background
George Francis Hammond was born in 1855 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
George Francis Hammond was born in 1855 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
He completed a course in architecture under Professor Ware at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He found employment as draftsman in the office of William G. Preston and worked there for a number of years. In 1884 Mr. Hammond opened his own office in Boston. Later (c.1900) he moved to Cleveland, where he continued active for nearly twenty years. In that period the scope of his work was enlarged to include various types of public and commercial structures, factories and industrial buildings, of which the most important were: The Hollenden Hotel, 1912 and the Electric Building in Cleveland; U. S. Post Office at Zanesville, 1900; Ohio State Normal School at Kent, 1913; and the McKinley High School at Canton, Ohio.
A Fellow and Emeritus member of the A.I.A.