Background
Harry E. Weeks was born in 1871 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
Harry E. Weeks was born in 1871 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
He studied at Boston's Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He moved with his family to Pittsfield, Mass., and began architectural training there in the local office of H. McNeil Wilson. Later he studied at Boston's M.I.T. and after being employed as draftman in Mr. Wilson’s office for a time, established his own office in the city.
Moving to Cleveland in 1905, Mr. Weeks secured a position with Architect J. Milton Dyer, and while there met and renewed his acquaintance with Frank R. Walker whom he had known in Pittsfield. In 1911 they decided to start architectural work for themselves, and under the firm name of Walker & Weeks carried on a large practice of a general nature. They successfully completed many important commissions for the planning and erection of public buildings, churches, schools, office buildings and banking houses.
Outstanding examples of the firm’s works in Cleveland were the City Public Library, won in a competition; several branch library buildings; Allen Memorial Medical Library; Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and a Branch Bank in Pittsburgh; National Union Bank; Guardian Savings & Trust Building; Severance Music Hall; Administration Building, City Board of Education; Guarantee Title Company Building; three churches - the First Baptist, Euclid Avenue Baptist, and the First Church of Christ Scientist, and the new City Post Office Building, a five-million dollar modern structure. Walker & Weeks also designed the University School and the Hathaway Brown School for Girls at Shaker Heights, and several large banks in Akron.