Background
Herbert D. Hale was born in 1866 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Herbert D. Hale was born in 1866 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
After graduation at Harvard College in 1888, spent four years in architectural study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Opening an office in Boston, Mr. Hale worked alone for a number of years designing both business and public buildings, including the South Boston High School; and a Grammar School at Montclair, N. J. In addition he was associated with the firm of Parker & Thomas on the Baltimore & Ohio Office Building in Baltimore, and with Henry G. Morse on the United Engineers’ Buildinq on West 39th Street in New York.
Shortly after the turn of the century Mr. Hale entered into partnership with James Gamble Rogers (Hale & Rogers), with a main office in New York City and branches in Boston and Chicago. The firm carried on a large and successful practice until Mr. Hale's retirement in 1907, engaged in designing a number of Government buildings. The Shelby County Court House, Memphis, Tenn., and the U. S. Post Office building in New Orleans, La. (won in a competition) were the most important of the firm's latter works.
He was a member of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Beaux-Arts Society, and the University, Players and Harvard clubs.