Background
Harry J. Manning was born in 1877 in Peoria, Illinois, United States.
Harry J. Manning was born in 1877 in Peoria, Illinois, United States.
Mr. Manning received an architectural training and acquired experience in eastern cities, and while in his twenties settled in Denver. In 1904 he organized the firm of Manning & Wagner, and during President Theodore Roosevelt’s second Administration the partners were commissioned to design a Home for Tubercular Patients at Washington, D. C.
After Mr. Wagner’s death in 1912 Mr. Manning carried on his work alone, and during the next twenty years won recognition in designing a number of Denver's finest public structures including the Capital Life Insurance Building, 1925; Margery Reed Mayo Nursery, and the Reed Memorial Library on the campus of the Denver University. Mr. Manning also was an associate architect on the project for the new Municipal Building, and in addition prepared plans for a number of hospital and sanitarium buildings built in other cities.
He had been a member of the Colorado Chapter, A.I.A. after 1912.