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Robert Little (architect)

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Robert Andrews Little (1919–2005) was a modernist architect based in Cleveland, Ohio. He received the Cleveland Arts Prize for Architecture in 1965. Little practiced in the Bauhaus and International styles. He also designed and advocated energy-efficient features, and employed Jewish and African-American architects and engineers.[1]

Born in Boston, he was a direct descendant of Paul Revere. Little studied with Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius.[1] He graduated from Harvard in 1937 and continued there completing his masters 1939.[1]

Little came to Cleveland in 1947.[1] He taught at Case Western Reserve University’s school of architecture.[1]

His firm, Little & Associates, merged with Dalton·Dalton Associates in 1969.[1] He was married to Ann Halle Little,[2] a member of the locally prominent Halle department store family. Little and his wife had two sons, Robert and Revere. Revere was a noteworthy folk singer.[3]

Work

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Little's first commission, the Halle Brothers department store at Shaker Square built in 1948, is on the National Register of Historic Places.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Robert Little Cleveland Arts Prize
  2. ^ Segall, Grant (January 20, 2012). "Ann Halle Little--heiress, architect, pilot, volunteer". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved September 19, 2012.
  3. ^ "Singer-Songwriter Dies of Cancer". The Harvard Crimson. 28 Feb 1994. Retrieved 2 August 2024.