Frederic Charles Hirons

Who was Frederic Charles Hirons?

Frederic Charles Hirons was the American architect, based in New York, who designed the Classical George Rogers Clark National Memorial, in Vincennes, Indiana, among the last major Beaux-Arts style public works in the United States, completed in 1933.

Hirons was of French extraction; he immigrated to Massachusetts as a child. Hirons worked as a draftsman in the Boston architectural office of Herbert Hale from 1898 until 1901, before entering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; on graduating in 1904 he received a Rotch Travelling Scholarship to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. MIT's Paris prize enabled him to continue his European studies until 1909.

On his return he established an architectural practice in New York with Ethan Allen Dennison.