Weary and Alford Company
Weary and Alford Company was an American architectural firm with partners Edwin Delos Weary and Willam Headley Alford. The firm was known for its design of office buildings and bank buildings and was headquartered in Chicago. The firm also employed Oscar Wenderoth, E. F. Weary, and R. D. Weary. Several buildings designed by the firm are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Weary wrote a letter to a special committee of the U.S. Senate on issues facing the industry and building costs. He also wrote about wartime issues facing the industry in 1917  in "Town Development" He also wrote an article touting building bank buildings with the bank one floor above street level to allow for commerce on the ground floor to bring in rent. Weary's brother Frank O. Weary was a prominent architect working out of Akron, Ohio and has several buildings listed on the NRHP.