page_title: Harry Weese
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Weese / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: WallStreet Tower (former Mercantile Bank), Kansas City, Missouri
context_page_description: Harry Mohr Weese was an American architect who had an important role in 20th century modernism and historic preservation. His brother, Ben Weese, is also a renowned architect.
context_section_description: Weese is best known as the designer and architect of the first group of stations in the Washington Metro system. Other well known works include:
  Robert and Suzanne Drucker House in Wilmette, Illinois
  Alpha Sigma Phi, Alpha Xi Chapter House at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago
  The United States Embassy Building in Accra, Ghana
  Arena Stage, Washington DC
  Time-Life Building, Chicago
  First Baptist Church, in Columbus, Indiana
  Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist in Chicago
  The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  The 411 East Wisconsin Center, in Milwaukee
  The Humanities Building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, widely considered one the Midwest's best examples of brutalist architecture but slated for demolition soon.
  The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, formerly known as the Elvehjem Museum of Art
  The Upper School (high school) building of The Latin School of Chicago in Chicago
  Pierce Tower, an undergraduate residence hall at the University of Chicago
  Mercantile Bank, Kansas City, Missouri
  Westin Crown Center Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri
  Fulton House at 345 N. Canal Street in Chicago. Converted 19th century 16-story cold-storage warehouse building to condominium building.
  Fewkes Tower at 55 W. Chestnut Street (formerly 838 N. Dearborn Street) in Chicago
  River Cottages at 357-365 N. Canal Street in Chicago. Sloped, structurally expressive facade responds to the angle and cross bracing of the railroad bridge directly across the river.
  William J. Campbell United States Courthouse Annex in downtown Chicago (formerly known as the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago.) Federal temporary holding prison which has no window bars, instead each cell is provided with a vertical 5" slot window. Weese was mandated to follow then new federal prison architectural guidelines, like cells having no bars and by original design each prisoner had his own room.
  Middletown City Building, Middletown, Ohio
  Formica Building, Cincinnati
  Sterling Morton Library, The Morton Arboretum
  O'Brian Hall at the State University of New York at Buffalo
  The Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston
  The Given Institute, Aspen Colorado
  St Thomas' Episcopal Church, (Menasha, Wisconsin)  A striking building, similar to the aforementioned First Baptist Church in Columbus, IN, but with an even more sweeping roof design and towering steeple.
  Swissôtel Chicago, Chicago. The cross-section is an equilateral triangle, so that two-thirds of the rooms have a view of the main stem of the Chicago River.
  Weese also led numerous restoration projects including:
  Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building in Chicago (1967)
  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
  Orchestra Hall, Chicago
  Union Station, Washington DC
  Weese designed over 80 single home and residential buildings, including:
  His primary residence in Barrington, Illinois
  "Shadowcliff", Ellison Bay, Wisconsin
  Evanston, Illinois
  Glen Lake, Michigan
  Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, Canada
  Red House, Barrington, Illinois
  Wayne, Illinois
caption: Mercantile Bank in Kansas City, Missouri, a 20-story office tower on a pedestal base of steel columns with striking exposed triangular trusses
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