Hawken House
Hawken House. Rock Hill Road St. Louis, MO 63119. Webster Groves Hours: Call for hours. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments. Hawken House Hearth Room. Nestled behind the Historic Hawken House Museum, in Webster Groves, this 120-person intimate banquet hall is ideal.
Bracken House is a building at 10 Cannon Street in the City of London, occupied by the Financial Times newspaper until the 1980s, and again beginning May 2019. A late example of modern classicism, it was constructed from 1955 to 1958 to a design by Sir Albert Richardson to serve as the headquarters and printing works of the Financial Times, on a cleared bomb site southeast of St Paul's Cathedral. It is a Grade II* listed building, and was the first building built after World War II in England to become listed.
The Financial Times moved back into Bracken House, which was extensively refurbished in 2018-19 by John Robertson Architects, in spring 2019.
Background[edit]
New offices were required for the Financial Times after it merged with the Financial News in 1945. The building was named after Brendan Bracken, who became Viscount Bracken in 1952.
The building was clad in pink sandstone from Hollington, Staffordshire, as an allusion to the characteristic pink colour of the newspaper, with red bricks and bronze windows, contrasting with the verdigris of the copper roof. Editorial offices were located in the northern range, beside Cannon Street, with printing machinery in an octagonal structure in the centre, and more offices to the south, by Queen Victoria Street. Above the entrance on Cannon Street is an astrological clock, designed by Frank Dobson and Philip Bentham and made by Thwaites & Reed. The clock features the face of Winston Churchill at the centre of a large gold sunburst, Churchill having been a great friend of Viscount Bracken during the war.[1]
1980s redevelopment[edit]
Like other newspapers, the Financial Times moved out of central London in the 1980s, and the printing works closed in 1988. The building was sold by Pearson in 1987. In August 1987 Bracken House became the first post-war building in England to become a listed building, to prevent it being demolished and replaced by a new glass and steel building proposed by Michael Hopkins and Partners (the post-war Brynmawr Rubber Factory was listed in 1985 by the Welsh Office). The plans were changed to incorporate the old building, redeveloped by Obayashi Corporation between 1988 and 1992. The altered building retained the old ranges to the north and south, but replaced the central printing hall with a new glass and structural gunmetal structure on a Hollington sandstone plinth, with boxy oriel windows inspired by Oriel Chambers in Liverpool (constructed in 1864). With its main entrance now at 1 Friday Street to the east, the building was altered to include large open offices and trading floors for the European head office of the Industrial Bank of Japan, which combined with Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and Fuji Bank in 2002 to form Mizuho Financial Group, the third largest bank in Japan.[2]
Urban dead games. The Hopkins additions were included in the Grade II* listing in 2013.
Looking east along Cannon Street
North east corner, where Friday Street meets Cannon Street
The east façade on Friday Street, from the south-east, looking north-west
The south façade from Queen Victoria Street
The astronomical clock above the entrance
Detail of astronomical clock
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References[edit]
- ^Allinson, Ken (2007). London's Contemporary Architecture. Routledge. ISBN1136347054. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^Hoover, William D. (18 March 2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. Scarecrow Press. p. 33. ISBN978-0-8108-7539-5.
- Bracken House, National Heritage List for England, Historic England
- Original building, City of London
Coordinates: 51°30′45″N0°05′47″W / 51.51250°N 0.09639°W
5.0We held our wedding here on 10/10/10 and it was fabulous. It was the perfect size for our 75 person wedding. We held the ceremony outside in between the house and the Hearth Room, and the reception inside the hearth room. We also had the guests take a tour of the house to give them something to do while we were taking pictures.
The surrounding grounds provided a beautiful background for pictures. If you are doing a sit-down dinner you probably won't want to go much more than 80 guests, it starts to get cramped; but if it were cocktails you could do upwards of 100-120 I think. Its really quite affordable since you can use it for both reception and ceremony. We loved it and highly recommend it!
5.0We cannot say enough great things about the Hawken House, or Ginger, the manager. Our groom is in the Army, and three changes in his leave meant three changes in the wedding date.and Ginger accommodated us willingly and patiently! She worked with us every step of the way, offering her help and support. She was a blessing!
The venue was perfect for our event, with the wedding in the garden, dinner and dancing inside following. Everything was exactly as they bride and groom wanted, and so reasonably priced! Yes, the venue is simple, but easy to decorate to your heart's desire - and we did! It was perfect! 4.0The Hawken Hearth Room holds 120 people max and makes for a perfect vintage/garden/historic wedding locale. The Hearth Room is the building behind the historic home. There is a kitchen and they provide tables and chairs.
The dressing room is like a closet. But if all you need to do is put on your dress it will be fine. The historic home can be rented and a docent gives tours to your guests. This was great entertainment while the wedding party & family was taking photos. You can bring your own food and drink which in the world of wedding venues is unique and a huge plus for us.
The biggest drawback was communication. Ginger, the site manager, doesn't really use email. The phone number usually goes to a voice mail system and she has to call you back. I hate playing phone tag and prefer email, so I found communicating with her to be incredibly frustrating. That said, I still feel very happy with my choice of the Hawken House for our wedding.
It was elegant, casual, and had a home-spun feel I was looking for. Also, it was really, really affordable. 2.0I would recommend the Garden as a place to get married, it's beautiful, but have the reception somewhere else. The venue was dirty, and we had to clean in advance.
It's billed as being able to handle 120 people, but fitting 100 in there was a challenge. They locked up the chairs and tables, and basically left us to fend for ourselves, never checking back to see if things were okay. We paid $125 to have pictures taken at the house, but then were told there would be no sitting, just standing by things.
We made the outdoor work, although it was also dirty and filled with trash, cigarette butts, and leaves. The Caretaker assured us it would be cleaned before the wedding, but that never happened, and she never checked back to see that it was. I know they are a non-profit, but they charged us $1125.00, and we felt like that was twice as much as it was worth. Cancelled our event with just 3 weeks noticeThe Hawken House is run by the Webster Groves Historical Society.
The Hearth Room makes money to support it. The Webster Groves Historical Society’s “The Hearth Room” venue cancelled our nonprofit’s paid in full event just 3 weeks out and cancelled all our 8 confirmed 2020 events. We had to scramble to find a venue for Feb 1 and the rest of 2020. We were a great renter per the profuse compliments from the last staffer who left in fall 2019.
We had been there 3 1/2 years with 8 events per year. We are a small nonprofit church. The woman was very rude in the one minute call on a Saturday morning where she told me they were cancelling on us and that she “tore up” my check. (I had to pay to stop payment on the check since she did not return it to me.) Then after some rudeness from her, she literally hung up on me! Highly unprofessional behavior. I have run events for 30 years for business and have never encountered this before.
I called her back and left a message, and she did not return my call. Just literally a one-minute call and hung up on, when we had an oral (and prior written) contract with financial consideration paid, and while I was just trying to understand and inquire about mutually agreeable options with our event just 3 weeks out. She appears to have lied as she told me The Hearth Room is only doing weddings as their excuse for this bad business behavior because their website has not changed and says they do all kinds of events. I was utterly shocked. We think it is either a bad new staff person and/or religious discrimination as we are non-denominational. Luckily we were able to find a much better venue from a professional business who knows how to treat people.
Try out Vue17 and 16West instead - better view and much better business people!