Tag: htb

Edgar Tafur and the Art of Mercy

by Lynne Rostochil, vintage photos from the OPUBCO collection at the History Center, catalog and current-day photos from the author Some of my favorite childhood memories include spending part of my summers every year hanging out with my grandmother and volunteering with her on Tuesdays at the newly built Mercy Hospital in the gift shop.  It […]

The United Founders Tower and the Architecture of Hudgins, Thompson & Ball, part 2

by Robyn Arn and Lynne Rostochil This week, we’re wrapping up the Founders Tower slideshow we presented a couple of weeks ago at the Fitzsimmons Architecture annex.  (Read Part 1 of our blog devoted to HTB.) In 1961, the United Founders Life Insurance Company purchased a 60-acre tract west of May Avenue and north of Northwest […]