Son of Ella E. Nelson and John Everett Hagan. 1m to Bernice Myra Ream on 02 Nov 921 in Galesburg, Knox Co, IL. 2m to Helen T. Clark in 1963 in Wichita, Sedgwick Co, KS. The address of the home on Route 5 was later designated at 2400 Graphic Arts Road.
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The Emporia Gazette, 23 Apr 1951, Monday
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hagan have moved from 1614 East Wilman court to the Stratford apartments. They recently sold their home to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bruckner who will occupy the residence soon. The Bruckners are having the single attached garage on the house enlarged to accommodate two cars. The Hagans will build a new home on the site of the former Dryer Park golf course.
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The Emporia Gazette, 13 Sep 1951, Thursday
NEW HAGAN HOME BEING BUILT NEAR EMPORIA HAS MANY UNUSUAL FEATURES
Right out of Hollywood, some observers insist, has come the unusual design for a new home under construction for Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Hagan on a 40-acre tract northwest of Emporia, formerly known as the Dryer Park Golf Course.
The new home, now framed and roofed with partition lines established, when complete will be a shining example of incorporation of many features of plans and specifications pictured in the slick paper "home" magazines and the expensive trade journals for the architectural and engineering professions.
Architect Hagan, assisted by his partner, Jerome Brinkman in preparation of the plans, is first to admit that his new home is a "departure" for Emporia and is "sort of crazy" in layout and appearance.
Friends of Mr. Hagan, especially those in the construction or contracting business or associated with it, make many pointed remarks about the house, mostly in fun. Included are such snide and facetious examples as: "What part is the garage?" (and) "Why don't you put a hole in the wardrobe and sell tickets?"
All these, architect Hagan takes good-naturedly. He claims he is having a good time seeing the house in progressive stages of construction and adds that all the plans for the house are not yet finished.
The Hagan home, certain to be the attraction for motorists along the Americus road, is set well back from the highway and faces a small lake built earlier this year.
Although the structure has an over-all length of 142 feet and a variety of long widths, it has only four or five rooms, depending on what is counted as rooms.
Perhaps the core feature of the house is the central living room--which has about as much glass as a greenhouse. The front of this room, facing west toward the lake and highway, will be fitted with thermopane glass from the flagstone bordered floor to the ceiling. The "backside" of the living room also is plate glass fitted in large steel-framed sliding doors which open 20 feet wide on a large screened in porch. The front of the living room and the adjoined dining area leading from the kitchen has a wide over-hang from the roof ranging up to nearly 12 feet to provide storm protection for the glass. The protective over-hang also is above a sloping sectional picture window that comprises the front of the dining area. Floor of the screened in porch will be of flagstones as well as a terraced area in front of the living room.
Exterior materials of the Hagan home are especially interesting and appealing. They are stone and redwood. The stone was quarried in the Painted Desert region of Arizona and was shipped from Flagstaff. It is known as quartzite, a particular aged sandstone, with hues in yellows, pinks and red. Much of the front central portion of the home and flanking walls will be of stone, now being laid. The quartzite also will be used for the end walls of the living room, a wall of the dining area, for end-to-end fireplaces in the dining room and adjoining den and for flagstone border on the living room floor.
The Hagan home will have only one north window and that is in the dining area which merges into the kitchen placed nearly in the center of the structure.
Multiple services of the Hagan home include two utility rooms and a 4-stall garage. The garage, extending to the north is shed-like in design, as marked by its low white-rock-covered built-up asphalt roof, the top of which is visible from the highway. Red wood will cover the exterior of the elongated garage. Entrance to the garage will be from the east or rear of the house. Plans are to have two of the four garage stalls available for the storage of a tractor and moving (sic) machinery for care for the 40-acre tract. Another feature of the garage section of the building is that it has no direct opening connection with the Hagan's residence quarters, but the garage itself is fitted with living quarters and a shower room for a grounds keeper.
One of the utility rooms is adjacent to the kitchen and will serve for storage and as a washroom. The other, located near the front entrance of the home, will house the boilers for the radiant heating plant and the hot water heat. The pipes are laid on tile above sand for insulation from the ground. The radiant heating layout in the concrete floor is the largest ever placed in an Emporia residence. Copper water service lines also will be embedded in concrete. The radiant-heated area will be about 3,000 square feet.
Visitors to the incompleted Hagan home note that the bedroom wing of the house extending to the south does not "set square with the world" but is on the bias. Features of the bedroom area include the master bedroom 28 feet long with the exterior wall of thermoplane glass. A portion of the bedroom will be fitted with a corrugated folding fabric door to convert the space into a den or an extra guest bedroom. This area has one of the two quartzite fireplaces.
The larger of two bathrooms, has a solid outside wall of translucent glass blocks. The second bedroom has a large thermopane side window. Also high above eye-level smaller windows will be installed on the front of the bedroom wing.
Closets and wardrobe sections with sliding doors will be built between the bedrooms.
Carpeting will cover the floors of the bedrooms and within the flagstone border in the massive living room. Inside walls of the bedrooms will be finished in wood paneling.
Comparatively little painting and surface decoration work will be required on the inside of the Hagan home because of the large amounts of glass and stone used. Drape requirements will be heavy, as the living room has some aspects of a breezeway. Ceilings of the rooms are sloping and will be plastered.
The front of the house and connecting terrace will have a built-in installation for flowers and floral plantings.
An area south of the bedroom wing of the home will be graveled for parking facility. Front entrance to the house is not on the front but at one side of the central portion and a walk will lead to the graveled area.
Ground in front of the terrace will be graded to make a gradual slope to the lake about 100 yards distant.
In commenting on the new home which the Hagans hope to occupy by mid-winter, Mrs. Hagan tells friends that "it is all Stan's idea." "If any people show up for a house warming," Mrs Hagan added, "and there are any presents, I hope they bring me a pair of roller skates so I can get around in the place."
Nevertheless, Emporia admirers of contemporary architecture are looking at the Hagan house enviously and regard it as "the best yet."
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 Feb 1952, Thursday
ALL'S QUIET
Architect and Mrs. J. Stanley Hagan moved Thursday from the Stratford apartments to their new home northwest of town located on the former Dryer park golf course. Mr. Hagan reports that country sleeping was so quiet that he overslept Friday morning. To persons who inquired if he was bothered by any wild animals around his home, Hagan replied that a bird was found dead on the front flagstone terrace. He guessed the bird tried to fly through the all glass fish-bowl living room and was killed when it struck the thermopane.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 21 Feb 1952, Thursday
HE'S THE PRESIDENT
J. Stanley Hagan, senior member of the Emporia firm of Brinkman and Hagan, is the new president of the Kansas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Hagan was elected Saturday at a convention attended by about 120 Kansas architects - at Salina. Other officers of the Kansas chapter are Glen E. Benedick, of Wichita, vice president, and A. K. Bader, Salina, secretary-treasurer. Salina speakers on the convention program included C. W. Shaver, architect, who gave a talk on waterproofing, and W. M. Ostenberg, superintendent of schools.
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The Emporia Gazette, 19 Oct 1960, Wednesday
DEER, BUT NO ANTELOPE
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hagan had unexpected callers this morning: a mother deer and her half grown fawn. The visitors were sighted by the Hagans through a window as they were eating breakfast at 7:40 a.m. They came from the Sunnyslope Farm across the road west of the Hagan home at the northwest edge of Emporia. They jumped the fence around the Sunnyslope Farm and walked into the Hagan's yard. They browsed awhile around some fruit trees, hopped over a 4-1/2-feet-tall fence around a vegetable garden and after about 10 minutes ambled off to the north and over the fence on the Hatcher place.
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The Emporia Gazette, 01 Jul 1963, Monday
CLARK-HAGAN
Miss Helen Thompson Clark of Wichita, and Mr. John Stanley Hagan of Emporia, were married Thursday afternoon, June 27th, in St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Wichita.
The bride was given in marriage by her brother, Dr. Howard Clark. She wore a white lace overblouse and skirt. Her circular veil was held with a white pillbox had and she carried pink sweetheart roses and stephanotis on a white prayer book. Miss Mary Clark was the maid of honor and Mr. George Meeker served as the best man.
Dr. and Mrs. Clark entertained with a reception in their home in Wichita after the ceremony.
Mrs. Hagan is a former teacher in the Home Economics Department at Emporia State College and for the last 11 years has been coordinator of homemaking and family life education in the Wichita public schools. Mr. Hagan is a partner in the architectural firm of Brinkman and Hagan. After a wedding trip to Hawaii, they will live in the Hagan home on Route 5.
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 Jul 1973, Saturday
Gov. Robert Docking announced Wednesday he has appointed J. Stanley Hagan, 2400 Graphic Arts Road, to a four-year term on the State Registration and Examining Board for Architects. Mr. Hagan is a member of the Brinkman and Hagan architectural firm. His appointment is effective immediately.
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The Emporia Gazette, 03 May 1974, Friday
STANLEY HAGAN DIES THURSDAY
Well-Known Architect Suffers Heart Attack
J. Stanley Hagan, one of the state's best-known architects, died Thursday evening at his home, 2400 Graphic Arts St., after suffering an apparent heart attack. Mr. Hagan had maintained an office in Emporia since 1925, except for a brief period during World War II. He had been a leader in civic affairs and helped set up zoning regulations to insure the orderly growth of the town.
Mr. Hagan was born Aug. 2nd, 1899, in St. Joseph, Mo., the son of John Everett and Ella Nelson Hagan, and he received his professional training at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. He came to Emporia to join the late Henry W. Brinkman, in a firm which became known as Brinkman and Hagan. The current partner is Jerome Brinkman, son of the firm's co-founder. One of the first buildings Mr. Hagan designed as an Emporia architect was St. Mary's Cathedral in Grand Island, Neb., and one of the last, a contemporary building, St. Joseph's Church in Shawnee. He also was in charge of a current remodeling project at the Gazette building for which he had been the architect for many years.
During his long professional career, Mr. Hagan designed buildings all over the Midwest. Among them are: the Bennett Hill Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.; the Ward High School and a chancery for the Catholic Diocese of Kansas in Kansas City; two recent buildings on the University of Kansas campus -- Murphy Hall (the fine arts building) and the Engineering Hall; telephone buildings in Emporia, Parsons and Marion; courthouses and federal buildings in a number of locations, including Medicine Lodge, Larned and Dodge City; a hospital in Eureka; a number of schools and more than 100 churches in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
Buildings which Mr. Hagan and his firm have designed for Emporia are the William Lindsay White Auditorium, the Lyon County Courthouse, the Post Office and Telephone Company building, the Mutual Building and Loan Building (now Capitol Federal office), the Eureka Federal Savings and Loan Association (in Eureka as well as in Emporia), many schools, three buildings at Kansas State Teachers College and three churches, including the First Congregational, St. Andrew's Episcopal and First Christian.
Mr. Hagan, a public-spirited man, served as a member of the city and county zoning boards and as chairman of the Zoning Appeals Board. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, a member, and past president, of its Kansas Chapter; of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church; a member of the Rotary Club and the American Legion. In 1939, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Mutual Building and Loan Association where he served as officer and president of the board before the association was dissolved. He was one of the organizing members, and the first president, of the Emporia Friends of Art. He was a member of the State Registration and Examining Board of Architects. He also was a member of the board of Newman Memorial County Hospital.
Mr. Hagan was married on Nov. 2nd, 1921, in Galesburg, Ill., to Bernice Ream, who died on Feb. 3rd, 1962, and he was married on June 27th, 1963, in Wichita, to Helen Clark. He was preceded in death by his first wife and two sisters, Mildred and Mabel, and he is survived by his second wife; three daughters, Mrs. George (Virginia) Meeker, Hoyt; Mrs. Nelson (Frances) Rupard, Independence; and Mrs. John W. (Barbara) MacGregor, Medicine Lodge, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Monday in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. A J. Stanley Hagan Memorial Fund has been established at the Lyon County State Bank. Donations should be designated for either the Emporia Public Library or St. Andrew's Church.
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The Emporia Gazette, 04 May 1974, Saturday
HE WAS always Mr. Hagan to me. It would never have occurred to me to call him Stan. He was my parents' friend, and he deserved this courtesy.
Those who knew him and worked with him labeled him cantankerous, impossible, exacting, unbending. He was all of these and more. He was proud of it! He was also a loyal friend, and intelligent man, a skilled architect, a loving husband and a proud father.
He really needs no memorial. His memory will live on in the buildings he has left behind. Churches, schools, hospitals, banks, office buildings and houses. Again and again I have heard people say, "If it's a Hagan house, you can be sure it's a good house."
Some people refused to work with him -- he was a task master. He knew every nail and board that went into a building, and he watched costs with an eagle eye. He asked for perfection, and he drove himself and others to get it. If not always liked -- he was respected.
He was a grassroots man -- a Sunday farmer whose melons melted in the mouth. He was fascinated with the Orient and his home reflected this interest.
Cantankerous? Yes, he was. He was also sweet and thoughtful and he would have hated my saying so. Emporia is a more beautiful place because of him, and his friends are better people for having known him. We will miss you Mr. Hagan. -- B. W. W. [Barbara White Walker]
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The Emporia Gazette, 06 May 1974, Monday
STANLEY HAGAN A FORCEFUL MAN
Stanley Hagan was not a man to be ignored. He was a strong force in the community.
I first got to know him when he was on the planning board and I was a reporter. Right away I noticed that Mr. Hagan nearly always won his point. Sometimes the majority on the board would be lined up against him on an issue. But he was an overwhelming force and so dedicated that he usually changed enough votes to win. Often, it seemed to me, board members yielded out of sheer exhaustion.
Over the years we got to be good friends. We argues politics (he was a Democrat). We argues religion (both of us were Episcopalians). We argued local issues.
Mr. Hagan often visited The Gazette office because he was our architect. He planned and supervised the remodeling of the building in 1968. He was proud of the new front. So were we. At the time of his death, Mr. Hagan was supervising the changes necessary to make way for our new off-set press.
His obituary Friday listed some of the buildings Brinkman and Hagan had designed. There were hundreds of them -- churches, schools municipal buildings, and many of Emporia's better homes.
But there was not enough space in the obituary column to tell about his work during World War II when he was supervising architecture at the Sunflower Ordnance Plant in DeSoto. A problem in munitions plants was that shock waves caused by accidental explosions often killed the workers. This was because that munitions buildings then were built with heavy concrete walls to contain the explosions and protect the public. But these walls also contained the shock waves which killed workers.
Mr. Hagan designed thin wooden walls that relieved the pressure. To protect people outside the plant he devised thick concrete fences between the wooden buildings and pedestrian pathways.
Last December Mr. Hagan suffered a mild heart attack. Perhaps he knew his time was running out for he began to tie up loose ends.
He also did something for his church. With Mary Kretsinger he designed a new cover for the baptismal font. Funds given in memory of his first wife provide the materials used for the cover. It is being made of hammered pewter and enamel and will be dedicated at Christmas.
J. Stanley Hagan was a strong, proud man. Mercifully he was spared the indignities of a long sickness. -- R. C. [Ray Call]
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 May 1974, Tuesday
HAGAN SERVICES HELD
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, for J. Stanley Hagan, who died Thursday evening in his home, 2400 Graphic Arts St. The services were conducted by the Rev. R. J. Bunday, rector of the church, and the Rev. John Preussner, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Kan. The acolyte was the Rev. Conrad McNeer of Topeka, the organist was William Eidenback and the ushers were Ray Call, Glen Gilpin, Richard H. James and Clay Howerton. Active pallbearers were William Kretsinger, Wylie Price, Newton F. Wilson, Jerome Brinkman, LaMar Markowitz and William T. Davis and honorary pallbearers were John Brink, Orville Hoch, W. A. Larkin, Howard Blanchard, Charles Marshall, Kenneth Miller, Ellis Christensen, L. B. and W. G. Price, Trevor Lewis, Roger Samuelson and Dudley Williams. Burial was in Memorial Lawn Cemetery.
Out-of-town relatives who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. George Meeker, Hoyt; Mr. and Mrs. John MacGregor, Elizabeth, Allison and Laird Stanley, Medicine Lodge; Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rupard, Independence; Mrs. Stephen Scotten, Great Neck, L. I., N. Y.; Mrs. Robert Clark, Topeka; the Rev. and Mrs. John Pruessner, Kansas City; and Messrs. and Mesdames John Carlson, Preston Clark and Floyd Bowen and Mesdames Gayle White and Howard Clark, all of Wichita.
The Blair Colonial Mortuary was in charge of the services.
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The Emporia Gazette, 12 Nov 1974, Tuesday
..... We leave the Way College of Emporia and glance back at Newman Hospital. The grass is green and lush, small evergreens thrive and bright red geraniums welcome the student nurses to their residence hall. I think of Stanley Hagan here -- not because he was the architect who designed the buildings, but because he spent quite a few days as a patient in the hospital, and could not relax because the faucets on the basin in his room did not match ..... Barbara White Walker
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The Emporia Gazette, 12 Jun 1975, Saturday
Helen Clark Hagan, Virginia H. Meeker, Francis H. Rupard, and Barbara H. MacGregor have sold the property which includes the Hagan home and 40 acres along Graphic Arts Road north of Emporia High School to Charles R. Green and Marvin W. Lambert. Mr. and Mrs. Green plan to move into the dwelling. Mr. Green and Mr. Lambert plan to build houses on most of the 40-acre tract. The sale of the Hagan property was arranged by Don Ek Real Estate.
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The Emporia Gazette, 30 Dec 1976, Thursday
DEVELOPMENT STARTED
Just being started is another housing development on the far northwest side of town. It is the Westridge division being developed by Charles R. Green and Marvin Wayne Lambert on a tract of nearly 40 acres formerly owned by Mrs. Stanley Hagan. It is on the east side of the extension of Graphic Arts Road, and at one time was part of the old Dryer Park Golf Course.
Eighty-seven building sites have been staked out and utility services will be installed in the spring, according to Mr. Green, who with his family lives in the former Hagan home. The lots range in size from 80 by 130 feet to 155 by 185 feet. Restrictions have been established for two areas in the development, Mr. Green said. In Block 1, containing 28 lots adjacent to the Green home, houses must have a minimum of 2,000 square feet. In the other three blocks, the minimum square footage will be 1,500.
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The Emporia Gazette, 23 Apr 1951, Monday
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hagan have moved from 1614 East Wilman court to the Stratford apartments. They recently sold their home to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bruckner who will occupy the residence soon. The Bruckners are having the single attached garage on the house enlarged to accommodate two cars. The Hagans will build a new home on the site of the former Dryer Park golf course.
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The Emporia Gazette, 13 Sep 1951, Thursday
NEW HAGAN HOME BEING BUILT NEAR EMPORIA HAS MANY UNUSUAL FEATURES
Right out of Hollywood, some observers insist, has come the unusual design for a new home under construction for Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Hagan on a 40-acre tract northwest of Emporia, formerly known as the Dryer Park Golf Course.
The new home, now framed and roofed with partition lines established, when complete will be a shining example of incorporation of many features of plans and specifications pictured in the slick paper "home" magazines and the expensive trade journals for the architectural and engineering professions.
Architect Hagan, assisted by his partner, Jerome Brinkman in preparation of the plans, is first to admit that his new home is a "departure" for Emporia and is "sort of crazy" in layout and appearance.
Friends of Mr. Hagan, especially those in the construction or contracting business or associated with it, make many pointed remarks about the house, mostly in fun. Included are such snide and facetious examples as: "What part is the garage?" (and) "Why don't you put a hole in the wardrobe and sell tickets?"
All these, architect Hagan takes good-naturedly. He claims he is having a good time seeing the house in progressive stages of construction and adds that all the plans for the house are not yet finished.
The Hagan home, certain to be the attraction for motorists along the Americus road, is set well back from the highway and faces a small lake built earlier this year.
Although the structure has an over-all length of 142 feet and a variety of long widths, it has only four or five rooms, depending on what is counted as rooms.
Perhaps the core feature of the house is the central living room--which has about as much glass as a greenhouse. The front of this room, facing west toward the lake and highway, will be fitted with thermopane glass from the flagstone bordered floor to the ceiling. The "backside" of the living room also is plate glass fitted in large steel-framed sliding doors which open 20 feet wide on a large screened in porch. The front of the living room and the adjoined dining area leading from the kitchen has a wide over-hang from the roof ranging up to nearly 12 feet to provide storm protection for the glass. The protective over-hang also is above a sloping sectional picture window that comprises the front of the dining area. Floor of the screened in porch will be of flagstones as well as a terraced area in front of the living room.
Exterior materials of the Hagan home are especially interesting and appealing. They are stone and redwood. The stone was quarried in the Painted Desert region of Arizona and was shipped from Flagstaff. It is known as quartzite, a particular aged sandstone, with hues in yellows, pinks and red. Much of the front central portion of the home and flanking walls will be of stone, now being laid. The quartzite also will be used for the end walls of the living room, a wall of the dining area, for end-to-end fireplaces in the dining room and adjoining den and for flagstone border on the living room floor.
The Hagan home will have only one north window and that is in the dining area which merges into the kitchen placed nearly in the center of the structure.
Multiple services of the Hagan home include two utility rooms and a 4-stall garage. The garage, extending to the north is shed-like in design, as marked by its low white-rock-covered built-up asphalt roof, the top of which is visible from the highway. Red wood will cover the exterior of the elongated garage. Entrance to the garage will be from the east or rear of the house. Plans are to have two of the four garage stalls available for the storage of a tractor and moving (sic) machinery for care for the 40-acre tract. Another feature of the garage section of the building is that it has no direct opening connection with the Hagan's residence quarters, but the garage itself is fitted with living quarters and a shower room for a grounds keeper.
One of the utility rooms is adjacent to the kitchen and will serve for storage and as a washroom. The other, located near the front entrance of the home, will house the boilers for the radiant heating plant and the hot water heat. The pipes are laid on tile above sand for insulation from the ground. The radiant heating layout in the concrete floor is the largest ever placed in an Emporia residence. Copper water service lines also will be embedded in concrete. The radiant-heated area will be about 3,000 square feet.
Visitors to the incompleted Hagan home note that the bedroom wing of the house extending to the south does not "set square with the world" but is on the bias. Features of the bedroom area include the master bedroom 28 feet long with the exterior wall of thermoplane glass. A portion of the bedroom will be fitted with a corrugated folding fabric door to convert the space into a den or an extra guest bedroom. This area has one of the two quartzite fireplaces.
The larger of two bathrooms, has a solid outside wall of translucent glass blocks. The second bedroom has a large thermopane side window. Also high above eye-level smaller windows will be installed on the front of the bedroom wing.
Closets and wardrobe sections with sliding doors will be built between the bedrooms.
Carpeting will cover the floors of the bedrooms and within the flagstone border in the massive living room. Inside walls of the bedrooms will be finished in wood paneling.
Comparatively little painting and surface decoration work will be required on the inside of the Hagan home because of the large amounts of glass and stone used. Drape requirements will be heavy, as the living room has some aspects of a breezeway. Ceilings of the rooms are sloping and will be plastered.
The front of the house and connecting terrace will have a built-in installation for flowers and floral plantings.
An area south of the bedroom wing of the home will be graveled for parking facility. Front entrance to the house is not on the front but at one side of the central portion and a walk will lead to the graveled area.
Ground in front of the terrace will be graded to make a gradual slope to the lake about 100 yards distant.
In commenting on the new home which the Hagans hope to occupy by mid-winter, Mrs. Hagan tells friends that "it is all Stan's idea." "If any people show up for a house warming," Mrs Hagan added, "and there are any presents, I hope they bring me a pair of roller skates so I can get around in the place."
Nevertheless, Emporia admirers of contemporary architecture are looking at the Hagan house enviously and regard it as "the best yet."
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 Feb 1952, Thursday
ALL'S QUIET
Architect and Mrs. J. Stanley Hagan moved Thursday from the Stratford apartments to their new home northwest of town located on the former Dryer park golf course. Mr. Hagan reports that country sleeping was so quiet that he overslept Friday morning. To persons who inquired if he was bothered by any wild animals around his home, Hagan replied that a bird was found dead on the front flagstone terrace. He guessed the bird tried to fly through the all glass fish-bowl living room and was killed when it struck the thermopane.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 21 Feb 1952, Thursday
HE'S THE PRESIDENT
J. Stanley Hagan, senior member of the Emporia firm of Brinkman and Hagan, is the new president of the Kansas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Hagan was elected Saturday at a convention attended by about 120 Kansas architects - at Salina. Other officers of the Kansas chapter are Glen E. Benedick, of Wichita, vice president, and A. K. Bader, Salina, secretary-treasurer. Salina speakers on the convention program included C. W. Shaver, architect, who gave a talk on waterproofing, and W. M. Ostenberg, superintendent of schools.
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The Emporia Gazette, 19 Oct 1960, Wednesday
DEER, BUT NO ANTELOPE
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hagan had unexpected callers this morning: a mother deer and her half grown fawn. The visitors were sighted by the Hagans through a window as they were eating breakfast at 7:40 a.m. They came from the Sunnyslope Farm across the road west of the Hagan home at the northwest edge of Emporia. They jumped the fence around the Sunnyslope Farm and walked into the Hagan's yard. They browsed awhile around some fruit trees, hopped over a 4-1/2-feet-tall fence around a vegetable garden and after about 10 minutes ambled off to the north and over the fence on the Hatcher place.
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The Emporia Gazette, 01 Jul 1963, Monday
CLARK-HAGAN
Miss Helen Thompson Clark of Wichita, and Mr. John Stanley Hagan of Emporia, were married Thursday afternoon, June 27th, in St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Wichita.
The bride was given in marriage by her brother, Dr. Howard Clark. She wore a white lace overblouse and skirt. Her circular veil was held with a white pillbox had and she carried pink sweetheart roses and stephanotis on a white prayer book. Miss Mary Clark was the maid of honor and Mr. George Meeker served as the best man.
Dr. and Mrs. Clark entertained with a reception in their home in Wichita after the ceremony.
Mrs. Hagan is a former teacher in the Home Economics Department at Emporia State College and for the last 11 years has been coordinator of homemaking and family life education in the Wichita public schools. Mr. Hagan is a partner in the architectural firm of Brinkman and Hagan. After a wedding trip to Hawaii, they will live in the Hagan home on Route 5.
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 Jul 1973, Saturday
Gov. Robert Docking announced Wednesday he has appointed J. Stanley Hagan, 2400 Graphic Arts Road, to a four-year term on the State Registration and Examining Board for Architects. Mr. Hagan is a member of the Brinkman and Hagan architectural firm. His appointment is effective immediately.
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The Emporia Gazette, 03 May 1974, Friday
STANLEY HAGAN DIES THURSDAY
Well-Known Architect Suffers Heart Attack
J. Stanley Hagan, one of the state's best-known architects, died Thursday evening at his home, 2400 Graphic Arts St., after suffering an apparent heart attack. Mr. Hagan had maintained an office in Emporia since 1925, except for a brief period during World War II. He had been a leader in civic affairs and helped set up zoning regulations to insure the orderly growth of the town.
Mr. Hagan was born Aug. 2nd, 1899, in St. Joseph, Mo., the son of John Everett and Ella Nelson Hagan, and he received his professional training at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. He came to Emporia to join the late Henry W. Brinkman, in a firm which became known as Brinkman and Hagan. The current partner is Jerome Brinkman, son of the firm's co-founder. One of the first buildings Mr. Hagan designed as an Emporia architect was St. Mary's Cathedral in Grand Island, Neb., and one of the last, a contemporary building, St. Joseph's Church in Shawnee. He also was in charge of a current remodeling project at the Gazette building for which he had been the architect for many years.
During his long professional career, Mr. Hagan designed buildings all over the Midwest. Among them are: the Bennett Hill Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.; the Ward High School and a chancery for the Catholic Diocese of Kansas in Kansas City; two recent buildings on the University of Kansas campus -- Murphy Hall (the fine arts building) and the Engineering Hall; telephone buildings in Emporia, Parsons and Marion; courthouses and federal buildings in a number of locations, including Medicine Lodge, Larned and Dodge City; a hospital in Eureka; a number of schools and more than 100 churches in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
Buildings which Mr. Hagan and his firm have designed for Emporia are the William Lindsay White Auditorium, the Lyon County Courthouse, the Post Office and Telephone Company building, the Mutual Building and Loan Building (now Capitol Federal office), the Eureka Federal Savings and Loan Association (in Eureka as well as in Emporia), many schools, three buildings at Kansas State Teachers College and three churches, including the First Congregational, St. Andrew's Episcopal and First Christian.
Mr. Hagan, a public-spirited man, served as a member of the city and county zoning boards and as chairman of the Zoning Appeals Board. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, a member, and past president, of its Kansas Chapter; of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church; a member of the Rotary Club and the American Legion. In 1939, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Mutual Building and Loan Association where he served as officer and president of the board before the association was dissolved. He was one of the organizing members, and the first president, of the Emporia Friends of Art. He was a member of the State Registration and Examining Board of Architects. He also was a member of the board of Newman Memorial County Hospital.
Mr. Hagan was married on Nov. 2nd, 1921, in Galesburg, Ill., to Bernice Ream, who died on Feb. 3rd, 1962, and he was married on June 27th, 1963, in Wichita, to Helen Clark. He was preceded in death by his first wife and two sisters, Mildred and Mabel, and he is survived by his second wife; three daughters, Mrs. George (Virginia) Meeker, Hoyt; Mrs. Nelson (Frances) Rupard, Independence; and Mrs. John W. (Barbara) MacGregor, Medicine Lodge, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Monday in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. A J. Stanley Hagan Memorial Fund has been established at the Lyon County State Bank. Donations should be designated for either the Emporia Public Library or St. Andrew's Church.
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The Emporia Gazette, 04 May 1974, Saturday
HE WAS always Mr. Hagan to me. It would never have occurred to me to call him Stan. He was my parents' friend, and he deserved this courtesy.
Those who knew him and worked with him labeled him cantankerous, impossible, exacting, unbending. He was all of these and more. He was proud of it! He was also a loyal friend, and intelligent man, a skilled architect, a loving husband and a proud father.
He really needs no memorial. His memory will live on in the buildings he has left behind. Churches, schools, hospitals, banks, office buildings and houses. Again and again I have heard people say, "If it's a Hagan house, you can be sure it's a good house."
Some people refused to work with him -- he was a task master. He knew every nail and board that went into a building, and he watched costs with an eagle eye. He asked for perfection, and he drove himself and others to get it. If not always liked -- he was respected.
He was a grassroots man -- a Sunday farmer whose melons melted in the mouth. He was fascinated with the Orient and his home reflected this interest.
Cantankerous? Yes, he was. He was also sweet and thoughtful and he would have hated my saying so. Emporia is a more beautiful place because of him, and his friends are better people for having known him. We will miss you Mr. Hagan. -- B. W. W. [Barbara White Walker]
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The Emporia Gazette, 06 May 1974, Monday
STANLEY HAGAN A FORCEFUL MAN
Stanley Hagan was not a man to be ignored. He was a strong force in the community.
I first got to know him when he was on the planning board and I was a reporter. Right away I noticed that Mr. Hagan nearly always won his point. Sometimes the majority on the board would be lined up against him on an issue. But he was an overwhelming force and so dedicated that he usually changed enough votes to win. Often, it seemed to me, board members yielded out of sheer exhaustion.
Over the years we got to be good friends. We argues politics (he was a Democrat). We argues religion (both of us were Episcopalians). We argued local issues.
Mr. Hagan often visited The Gazette office because he was our architect. He planned and supervised the remodeling of the building in 1968. He was proud of the new front. So were we. At the time of his death, Mr. Hagan was supervising the changes necessary to make way for our new off-set press.
His obituary Friday listed some of the buildings Brinkman and Hagan had designed. There were hundreds of them -- churches, schools municipal buildings, and many of Emporia's better homes.
But there was not enough space in the obituary column to tell about his work during World War II when he was supervising architecture at the Sunflower Ordnance Plant in DeSoto. A problem in munitions plants was that shock waves caused by accidental explosions often killed the workers. This was because that munitions buildings then were built with heavy concrete walls to contain the explosions and protect the public. But these walls also contained the shock waves which killed workers.
Mr. Hagan designed thin wooden walls that relieved the pressure. To protect people outside the plant he devised thick concrete fences between the wooden buildings and pedestrian pathways.
Last December Mr. Hagan suffered a mild heart attack. Perhaps he knew his time was running out for he began to tie up loose ends.
He also did something for his church. With Mary Kretsinger he designed a new cover for the baptismal font. Funds given in memory of his first wife provide the materials used for the cover. It is being made of hammered pewter and enamel and will be dedicated at Christmas.
J. Stanley Hagan was a strong, proud man. Mercifully he was spared the indignities of a long sickness. -- R. C. [Ray Call]
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 May 1974, Tuesday
HAGAN SERVICES HELD
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, for J. Stanley Hagan, who died Thursday evening in his home, 2400 Graphic Arts St. The services were conducted by the Rev. R. J. Bunday, rector of the church, and the Rev. John Preussner, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Kan. The acolyte was the Rev. Conrad McNeer of Topeka, the organist was William Eidenback and the ushers were Ray Call, Glen Gilpin, Richard H. James and Clay Howerton. Active pallbearers were William Kretsinger, Wylie Price, Newton F. Wilson, Jerome Brinkman, LaMar Markowitz and William T. Davis and honorary pallbearers were John Brink, Orville Hoch, W. A. Larkin, Howard Blanchard, Charles Marshall, Kenneth Miller, Ellis Christensen, L. B. and W. G. Price, Trevor Lewis, Roger Samuelson and Dudley Williams. Burial was in Memorial Lawn Cemetery.
Out-of-town relatives who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. George Meeker, Hoyt; Mr. and Mrs. John MacGregor, Elizabeth, Allison and Laird Stanley, Medicine Lodge; Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rupard, Independence; Mrs. Stephen Scotten, Great Neck, L. I., N. Y.; Mrs. Robert Clark, Topeka; the Rev. and Mrs. John Pruessner, Kansas City; and Messrs. and Mesdames John Carlson, Preston Clark and Floyd Bowen and Mesdames Gayle White and Howard Clark, all of Wichita.
The Blair Colonial Mortuary was in charge of the services.
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The Emporia Gazette, 12 Nov 1974, Tuesday
..... We leave the Way College of Emporia and glance back at Newman Hospital. The grass is green and lush, small evergreens thrive and bright red geraniums welcome the student nurses to their residence hall. I think of Stanley Hagan here -- not because he was the architect who designed the buildings, but because he spent quite a few days as a patient in the hospital, and could not relax because the faucets on the basin in his room did not match ..... Barbara White Walker
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The Emporia Gazette, 12 Jun 1975, Saturday
Helen Clark Hagan, Virginia H. Meeker, Francis H. Rupard, and Barbara H. MacGregor have sold the property which includes the Hagan home and 40 acres along Graphic Arts Road north of Emporia High School to Charles R. Green and Marvin W. Lambert. Mr. and Mrs. Green plan to move into the dwelling. Mr. Green and Mr. Lambert plan to build houses on most of the 40-acre tract. The sale of the Hagan property was arranged by Don Ek Real Estate.
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The Emporia Gazette, 30 Dec 1976, Thursday
DEVELOPMENT STARTED
Just being started is another housing development on the far northwest side of town. It is the Westridge division being developed by Charles R. Green and Marvin Wayne Lambert on a tract of nearly 40 acres formerly owned by Mrs. Stanley Hagan. It is on the east side of the extension of Graphic Arts Road, and at one time was part of the old Dryer Park Golf Course.
Eighty-seven building sites have been staked out and utility services will be installed in the spring, according to Mr. Green, who with his family lives in the former Hagan home. The lots range in size from 80 by 130 feet to 155 by 185 feet. Restrictions have been established for two areas in the development, Mr. Green said. In Block 1, containing 28 lots adjacent to the Green home, houses must have a minimum of 2,000 square feet. In the other three blocks, the minimum square footage will be 1,500.
Son of Ella E. Nelson and John Everett Hagan. 1m to Bernice Myra Ream on 02 Nov 921 in Galesburg, Knox Co, IL. 2m to Helen T. Clark in 1963 in Wichita, Sedgwick Co, KS. The address of the home on Route 5 was later designated at 2400 Graphic Arts Road.
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The Emporia Gazette, 23 Apr 1951, Monday
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hagan have moved from 1614 East Wilman court to the Stratford apartments. They recently sold their home to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bruckner who will occupy the residence soon. The Bruckners are having the single attached garage on the house enlarged to accommodate two cars. The Hagans will build a new home on the site of the former Dryer Park golf course.
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The Emporia Gazette, 13 Sep 1951, Thursday
NEW HAGAN HOME BEING BUILT NEAR EMPORIA HAS MANY UNUSUAL FEATURES
Right out of Hollywood, some observers insist, has come the unusual design for a new home under construction for Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Hagan on a 40-acre tract northwest of Emporia, formerly known as the Dryer Park Golf Course.
The new home, now framed and roofed with partition lines established, when complete will be a shining example of incorporation of many features of plans and specifications pictured in the slick paper "home" magazines and the expensive trade journals for the architectural and engineering professions.
Architect Hagan, assisted by his partner, Jerome Brinkman in preparation of the plans, is first to admit that his new home is a "departure" for Emporia and is "sort of crazy" in layout and appearance.
Friends of Mr. Hagan, especially those in the construction or contracting business or associated with it, make many pointed remarks about the house, mostly in fun. Included are such snide and facetious examples as: "What part is the garage?" (and) "Why don't you put a hole in the wardrobe and sell tickets?"
All these, architect Hagan takes good-naturedly. He claims he is having a good time seeing the house in progressive stages of construction and adds that all the plans for the house are not yet finished.
The Hagan home, certain to be the attraction for motorists along the Americus road, is set well back from the highway and faces a small lake built earlier this year.
Although the structure has an over-all length of 142 feet and a variety of long widths, it has only four or five rooms, depending on what is counted as rooms.
Perhaps the core feature of the house is the central living room--which has about as much glass as a greenhouse. The front of this room, facing west toward the lake and highway, will be fitted with thermopane glass from the flagstone bordered floor to the ceiling. The "backside" of the living room also is plate glass fitted in large steel-framed sliding doors which open 20 feet wide on a large screened in porch. The front of the living room and the adjoined dining area leading from the kitchen has a wide over-hang from the roof ranging up to nearly 12 feet to provide storm protection for the glass. The protective over-hang also is above a sloping sectional picture window that comprises the front of the dining area. Floor of the screened in porch will be of flagstones as well as a terraced area in front of the living room.
Exterior materials of the Hagan home are especially interesting and appealing. They are stone and redwood. The stone was quarried in the Painted Desert region of Arizona and was shipped from Flagstaff. It is known as quartzite, a particular aged sandstone, with hues in yellows, pinks and red. Much of the front central portion of the home and flanking walls will be of stone, now being laid. The quartzite also will be used for the end walls of the living room, a wall of the dining area, for end-to-end fireplaces in the dining room and adjoining den and for flagstone border on the living room floor.
The Hagan home will have only one north window and that is in the dining area which merges into the kitchen placed nearly in the center of the structure.
Multiple services of the Hagan home include two utility rooms and a 4-stall garage. The garage, extending to the north is shed-like in design, as marked by its low white-rock-covered built-up asphalt roof, the top of which is visible from the highway. Red wood will cover the exterior of the elongated garage. Entrance to the garage will be from the east or rear of the house. Plans are to have two of the four garage stalls available for the storage of a tractor and moving (sic) machinery for care for the 40-acre tract. Another feature of the garage section of the building is that it has no direct opening connection with the Hagan's residence quarters, but the garage itself is fitted with living quarters and a shower room for a grounds keeper.
One of the utility rooms is adjacent to the kitchen and will serve for storage and as a washroom. The other, located near the front entrance of the home, will house the boilers for the radiant heating plant and the hot water heat. The pipes are laid on tile above sand for insulation from the ground. The radiant heating layout in the concrete floor is the largest ever placed in an Emporia residence. Copper water service lines also will be embedded in concrete. The radiant-heated area will be about 3,000 square feet.
Visitors to the incompleted Hagan home note that the bedroom wing of the house extending to the south does not "set square with the world" but is on the bias. Features of the bedroom area include the master bedroom 28 feet long with the exterior wall of thermoplane glass. A portion of the bedroom will be fitted with a corrugated folding fabric door to convert the space into a den or an extra guest bedroom. This area has one of the two quartzite fireplaces.
The larger of two bathrooms, has a solid outside wall of translucent glass blocks. The second bedroom has a large thermopane side window. Also high above eye-level smaller windows will be installed on the front of the bedroom wing.
Closets and wardrobe sections with sliding doors will be built between the bedrooms.
Carpeting will cover the floors of the bedrooms and within the flagstone border in the massive living room. Inside walls of the bedrooms will be finished in wood paneling.
Comparatively little painting and surface decoration work will be required on the inside of the Hagan home because of the large amounts of glass and stone used. Drape requirements will be heavy, as the living room has some aspects of a breezeway. Ceilings of the rooms are sloping and will be plastered.
The front of the house and connecting terrace will have a built-in installation for flowers and floral plantings.
An area south of the bedroom wing of the home will be graveled for parking facility. Front entrance to the house is not on the front but at one side of the central portion and a walk will lead to the graveled area.
Ground in front of the terrace will be graded to make a gradual slope to the lake about 100 yards distant.
In commenting on the new home which the Hagans hope to occupy by mid-winter, Mrs. Hagan tells friends that "it is all Stan's idea." "If any people show up for a house warming," Mrs Hagan added, "and there are any presents, I hope they bring me a pair of roller skates so I can get around in the place."
Nevertheless, Emporia admirers of contemporary architecture are looking at the Hagan house enviously and regard it as "the best yet."
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 Feb 1952, Thursday
ALL'S QUIET
Architect and Mrs. J. Stanley Hagan moved Thursday from the Stratford apartments to their new home northwest of town located on the former Dryer park golf course. Mr. Hagan reports that country sleeping was so quiet that he overslept Friday morning. To persons who inquired if he was bothered by any wild animals around his home, Hagan replied that a bird was found dead on the front flagstone terrace. He guessed the bird tried to fly through the all glass fish-bowl living room and was killed when it struck the thermopane.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 21 Feb 1952, Thursday
HE'S THE PRESIDENT
J. Stanley Hagan, senior member of the Emporia firm of Brinkman and Hagan, is the new president of the Kansas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Hagan was elected Saturday at a convention attended by about 120 Kansas architects - at Salina. Other officers of the Kansas chapter are Glen E. Benedick, of Wichita, vice president, and A. K. Bader, Salina, secretary-treasurer. Salina speakers on the convention program included C. W. Shaver, architect, who gave a talk on waterproofing, and W. M. Ostenberg, superintendent of schools.
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The Emporia Gazette, 19 Oct 1960, Wednesday
DEER, BUT NO ANTELOPE
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hagan had unexpected callers this morning: a mother deer and her half grown fawn. The visitors were sighted by the Hagans through a window as they were eating breakfast at 7:40 a.m. They came from the Sunnyslope Farm across the road west of the Hagan home at the northwest edge of Emporia. They jumped the fence around the Sunnyslope Farm and walked into the Hagan's yard. They browsed awhile around some fruit trees, hopped over a 4-1/2-feet-tall fence around a vegetable garden and after about 10 minutes ambled off to the north and over the fence on the Hatcher place.
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The Emporia Gazette, 01 Jul 1963, Monday
CLARK-HAGAN
Miss Helen Thompson Clark of Wichita, and Mr. John Stanley Hagan of Emporia, were married Thursday afternoon, June 27th, in St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Wichita.
The bride was given in marriage by her brother, Dr. Howard Clark. She wore a white lace overblouse and skirt. Her circular veil was held with a white pillbox had and she carried pink sweetheart roses and stephanotis on a white prayer book. Miss Mary Clark was the maid of honor and Mr. George Meeker served as the best man.
Dr. and Mrs. Clark entertained with a reception in their home in Wichita after the ceremony.
Mrs. Hagan is a former teacher in the Home Economics Department at Emporia State College and for the last 11 years has been coordinator of homemaking and family life education in the Wichita public schools. Mr. Hagan is a partner in the architectural firm of Brinkman and Hagan. After a wedding trip to Hawaii, they will live in the Hagan home on Route 5.
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 Jul 1973, Saturday
Gov. Robert Docking announced Wednesday he has appointed J. Stanley Hagan, 2400 Graphic Arts Road, to a four-year term on the State Registration and Examining Board for Architects. Mr. Hagan is a member of the Brinkman and Hagan architectural firm. His appointment is effective immediately.
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The Emporia Gazette, 03 May 1974, Friday
STANLEY HAGAN DIES THURSDAY
Well-Known Architect Suffers Heart Attack
J. Stanley Hagan, one of the state's best-known architects, died Thursday evening at his home, 2400 Graphic Arts St., after suffering an apparent heart attack. Mr. Hagan had maintained an office in Emporia since 1925, except for a brief period during World War II. He had been a leader in civic affairs and helped set up zoning regulations to insure the orderly growth of the town.
Mr. Hagan was born Aug. 2nd, 1899, in St. Joseph, Mo., the son of John Everett and Ella Nelson Hagan, and he received his professional training at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. He came to Emporia to join the late Henry W. Brinkman, in a firm which became known as Brinkman and Hagan. The current partner is Jerome Brinkman, son of the firm's co-founder. One of the first buildings Mr. Hagan designed as an Emporia architect was St. Mary's Cathedral in Grand Island, Neb., and one of the last, a contemporary building, St. Joseph's Church in Shawnee. He also was in charge of a current remodeling project at the Gazette building for which he had been the architect for many years.
During his long professional career, Mr. Hagan designed buildings all over the Midwest. Among them are: the Bennett Hill Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.; the Ward High School and a chancery for the Catholic Diocese of Kansas in Kansas City; two recent buildings on the University of Kansas campus -- Murphy Hall (the fine arts building) and the Engineering Hall; telephone buildings in Emporia, Parsons and Marion; courthouses and federal buildings in a number of locations, including Medicine Lodge, Larned and Dodge City; a hospital in Eureka; a number of schools and more than 100 churches in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
Buildings which Mr. Hagan and his firm have designed for Emporia are the William Lindsay White Auditorium, the Lyon County Courthouse, the Post Office and Telephone Company building, the Mutual Building and Loan Building (now Capitol Federal office), the Eureka Federal Savings and Loan Association (in Eureka as well as in Emporia), many schools, three buildings at Kansas State Teachers College and three churches, including the First Congregational, St. Andrew's Episcopal and First Christian.
Mr. Hagan, a public-spirited man, served as a member of the city and county zoning boards and as chairman of the Zoning Appeals Board. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, a member, and past president, of its Kansas Chapter; of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church; a member of the Rotary Club and the American Legion. In 1939, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Mutual Building and Loan Association where he served as officer and president of the board before the association was dissolved. He was one of the organizing members, and the first president, of the Emporia Friends of Art. He was a member of the State Registration and Examining Board of Architects. He also was a member of the board of Newman Memorial County Hospital.
Mr. Hagan was married on Nov. 2nd, 1921, in Galesburg, Ill., to Bernice Ream, who died on Feb. 3rd, 1962, and he was married on June 27th, 1963, in Wichita, to Helen Clark. He was preceded in death by his first wife and two sisters, Mildred and Mabel, and he is survived by his second wife; three daughters, Mrs. George (Virginia) Meeker, Hoyt; Mrs. Nelson (Frances) Rupard, Independence; and Mrs. John W. (Barbara) MacGregor, Medicine Lodge, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Monday in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. A J. Stanley Hagan Memorial Fund has been established at the Lyon County State Bank. Donations should be designated for either the Emporia Public Library or St. Andrew's Church.
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The Emporia Gazette, 04 May 1974, Saturday
HE WAS always Mr. Hagan to me. It would never have occurred to me to call him Stan. He was my parents' friend, and he deserved this courtesy.
Those who knew him and worked with him labeled him cantankerous, impossible, exacting, unbending. He was all of these and more. He was proud of it! He was also a loyal friend, and intelligent man, a skilled architect, a loving husband and a proud father.
He really needs no memorial. His memory will live on in the buildings he has left behind. Churches, schools, hospitals, banks, office buildings and houses. Again and again I have heard people say, "If it's a Hagan house, you can be sure it's a good house."
Some people refused to work with him -- he was a task master. He knew every nail and board that went into a building, and he watched costs with an eagle eye. He asked for perfection, and he drove himself and others to get it. If not always liked -- he was respected.
He was a grassroots man -- a Sunday farmer whose melons melted in the mouth. He was fascinated with the Orient and his home reflected this interest.
Cantankerous? Yes, he was. He was also sweet and thoughtful and he would have hated my saying so. Emporia is a more beautiful place because of him, and his friends are better people for having known him. We will miss you Mr. Hagan. -- B. W. W. [Barbara White Walker]
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The Emporia Gazette, 06 May 1974, Monday
STANLEY HAGAN A FORCEFUL MAN
Stanley Hagan was not a man to be ignored. He was a strong force in the community.
I first got to know him when he was on the planning board and I was a reporter. Right away I noticed that Mr. Hagan nearly always won his point. Sometimes the majority on the board would be lined up against him on an issue. But he was an overwhelming force and so dedicated that he usually changed enough votes to win. Often, it seemed to me, board members yielded out of sheer exhaustion.
Over the years we got to be good friends. We argues politics (he was a Democrat). We argues religion (both of us were Episcopalians). We argued local issues.
Mr. Hagan often visited The Gazette office because he was our architect. He planned and supervised the remodeling of the building in 1968. He was proud of the new front. So were we. At the time of his death, Mr. Hagan was supervising the changes necessary to make way for our new off-set press.
His obituary Friday listed some of the buildings Brinkman and Hagan had designed. There were hundreds of them -- churches, schools municipal buildings, and many of Emporia's better homes.
But there was not enough space in the obituary column to tell about his work during World War II when he was supervising architecture at the Sunflower Ordnance Plant in DeSoto. A problem in munitions plants was that shock waves caused by accidental explosions often killed the workers. This was because that munitions buildings then were built with heavy concrete walls to contain the explosions and protect the public. But these walls also contained the shock waves which killed workers.
Mr. Hagan designed thin wooden walls that relieved the pressure. To protect people outside the plant he devised thick concrete fences between the wooden buildings and pedestrian pathways.
Last December Mr. Hagan suffered a mild heart attack. Perhaps he knew his time was running out for he began to tie up loose ends.
He also did something for his church. With Mary Kretsinger he designed a new cover for the baptismal font. Funds given in memory of his first wife provide the materials used for the cover. It is being made of hammered pewter and enamel and will be dedicated at Christmas.
J. Stanley Hagan was a strong, proud man. Mercifully he was spared the indignities of a long sickness. -- R. C. [Ray Call]
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 May 1974, Tuesday
HAGAN SERVICES HELD
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, for J. Stanley Hagan, who died Thursday evening in his home, 2400 Graphic Arts St. The services were conducted by the Rev. R. J. Bunday, rector of the church, and the Rev. John Preussner, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Kan. The acolyte was the Rev. Conrad McNeer of Topeka, the organist was William Eidenback and the ushers were Ray Call, Glen Gilpin, Richard H. James and Clay Howerton. Active pallbearers were William Kretsinger, Wylie Price, Newton F. Wilson, Jerome Brinkman, LaMar Markowitz and William T. Davis and honorary pallbearers were John Brink, Orville Hoch, W. A. Larkin, Howard Blanchard, Charles Marshall, Kenneth Miller, Ellis Christensen, L. B. and W. G. Price, Trevor Lewis, Roger Samuelson and Dudley Williams. Burial was in Memorial Lawn Cemetery.
Out-of-town relatives who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. George Meeker, Hoyt; Mr. and Mrs. John MacGregor, Elizabeth, Allison and Laird Stanley, Medicine Lodge; Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rupard, Independence; Mrs. Stephen Scotten, Great Neck, L. I., N. Y.; Mrs. Robert Clark, Topeka; the Rev. and Mrs. John Pruessner, Kansas City; and Messrs. and Mesdames John Carlson, Preston Clark and Floyd Bowen and Mesdames Gayle White and Howard Clark, all of Wichita.
The Blair Colonial Mortuary was in charge of the services.
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The Emporia Gazette, 12 Nov 1974, Tuesday
..... We leave the Way College of Emporia and glance back at Newman Hospital. The grass is green and lush, small evergreens thrive and bright red geraniums welcome the student nurses to their residence hall. I think of Stanley Hagan here -- not because he was the architect who designed the buildings, but because he spent quite a few days as a patient in the hospital, and could not relax because the faucets on the basin in his room did not match ..... Barbara White Walker
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The Emporia Gazette, 12 Jun 1975, Saturday
Helen Clark Hagan, Virginia H. Meeker, Francis H. Rupard, and Barbara H. MacGregor have sold the property which includes the Hagan home and 40 acres along Graphic Arts Road north of Emporia High School to Charles R. Green and Marvin W. Lambert. Mr. and Mrs. Green plan to move into the dwelling. Mr. Green and Mr. Lambert plan to build houses on most of the 40-acre tract. The sale of the Hagan property was arranged by Don Ek Real Estate.
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The Emporia Gazette, 30 Dec 1976, Thursday
DEVELOPMENT STARTED
Just being started is another housing development on the far northwest side of town. It is the Westridge division being developed by Charles R. Green and Marvin Wayne Lambert on a tract of nearly 40 acres formerly owned by Mrs. Stanley Hagan. It is on the east side of the extension of Graphic Arts Road, and at one time was part of the old Dryer Park Golf Course.
Eighty-seven building sites have been staked out and utility services will be installed in the spring, according to Mr. Green, who with his family lives in the former Hagan home. The lots range in size from 80 by 130 feet to 155 by 185 feet. Restrictions have been established for two areas in the development, Mr. Green said. In Block 1, containing 28 lots adjacent to the Green home, houses must have a minimum of 2,000 square feet. In the other three blocks, the minimum square footage will be 1,500.
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The Emporia Gazette, 23 Apr 1951, Monday
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hagan have moved from 1614 East Wilman court to the Stratford apartments. They recently sold their home to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bruckner who will occupy the residence soon. The Bruckners are having the single attached garage on the house enlarged to accommodate two cars. The Hagans will build a new home on the site of the former Dryer Park golf course.
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The Emporia Gazette, 13 Sep 1951, Thursday
NEW HAGAN HOME BEING BUILT NEAR EMPORIA HAS MANY UNUSUAL FEATURES
Right out of Hollywood, some observers insist, has come the unusual design for a new home under construction for Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Hagan on a 40-acre tract northwest of Emporia, formerly known as the Dryer Park Golf Course.
The new home, now framed and roofed with partition lines established, when complete will be a shining example of incorporation of many features of plans and specifications pictured in the slick paper "home" magazines and the expensive trade journals for the architectural and engineering professions.
Architect Hagan, assisted by his partner, Jerome Brinkman in preparation of the plans, is first to admit that his new home is a "departure" for Emporia and is "sort of crazy" in layout and appearance.
Friends of Mr. Hagan, especially those in the construction or contracting business or associated with it, make many pointed remarks about the house, mostly in fun. Included are such snide and facetious examples as: "What part is the garage?" (and) "Why don't you put a hole in the wardrobe and sell tickets?"
All these, architect Hagan takes good-naturedly. He claims he is having a good time seeing the house in progressive stages of construction and adds that all the plans for the house are not yet finished.
The Hagan home, certain to be the attraction for motorists along the Americus road, is set well back from the highway and faces a small lake built earlier this year.
Although the structure has an over-all length of 142 feet and a variety of long widths, it has only four or five rooms, depending on what is counted as rooms.
Perhaps the core feature of the house is the central living room--which has about as much glass as a greenhouse. The front of this room, facing west toward the lake and highway, will be fitted with thermopane glass from the flagstone bordered floor to the ceiling. The "backside" of the living room also is plate glass fitted in large steel-framed sliding doors which open 20 feet wide on a large screened in porch. The front of the living room and the adjoined dining area leading from the kitchen has a wide over-hang from the roof ranging up to nearly 12 feet to provide storm protection for the glass. The protective over-hang also is above a sloping sectional picture window that comprises the front of the dining area. Floor of the screened in porch will be of flagstones as well as a terraced area in front of the living room.
Exterior materials of the Hagan home are especially interesting and appealing. They are stone and redwood. The stone was quarried in the Painted Desert region of Arizona and was shipped from Flagstaff. It is known as quartzite, a particular aged sandstone, with hues in yellows, pinks and red. Much of the front central portion of the home and flanking walls will be of stone, now being laid. The quartzite also will be used for the end walls of the living room, a wall of the dining area, for end-to-end fireplaces in the dining room and adjoining den and for flagstone border on the living room floor.
The Hagan home will have only one north window and that is in the dining area which merges into the kitchen placed nearly in the center of the structure.
Multiple services of the Hagan home include two utility rooms and a 4-stall garage. The garage, extending to the north is shed-like in design, as marked by its low white-rock-covered built-up asphalt roof, the top of which is visible from the highway. Red wood will cover the exterior of the elongated garage. Entrance to the garage will be from the east or rear of the house. Plans are to have two of the four garage stalls available for the storage of a tractor and moving (sic) machinery for care for the 40-acre tract. Another feature of the garage section of the building is that it has no direct opening connection with the Hagan's residence quarters, but the garage itself is fitted with living quarters and a shower room for a grounds keeper.
One of the utility rooms is adjacent to the kitchen and will serve for storage and as a washroom. The other, located near the front entrance of the home, will house the boilers for the radiant heating plant and the hot water heat. The pipes are laid on tile above sand for insulation from the ground. The radiant heating layout in the concrete floor is the largest ever placed in an Emporia residence. Copper water service lines also will be embedded in concrete. The radiant-heated area will be about 3,000 square feet.
Visitors to the incompleted Hagan home note that the bedroom wing of the house extending to the south does not "set square with the world" but is on the bias. Features of the bedroom area include the master bedroom 28 feet long with the exterior wall of thermoplane glass. A portion of the bedroom will be fitted with a corrugated folding fabric door to convert the space into a den or an extra guest bedroom. This area has one of the two quartzite fireplaces.
The larger of two bathrooms, has a solid outside wall of translucent glass blocks. The second bedroom has a large thermopane side window. Also high above eye-level smaller windows will be installed on the front of the bedroom wing.
Closets and wardrobe sections with sliding doors will be built between the bedrooms.
Carpeting will cover the floors of the bedrooms and within the flagstone border in the massive living room. Inside walls of the bedrooms will be finished in wood paneling.
Comparatively little painting and surface decoration work will be required on the inside of the Hagan home because of the large amounts of glass and stone used. Drape requirements will be heavy, as the living room has some aspects of a breezeway. Ceilings of the rooms are sloping and will be plastered.
The front of the house and connecting terrace will have a built-in installation for flowers and floral plantings.
An area south of the bedroom wing of the home will be graveled for parking facility. Front entrance to the house is not on the front but at one side of the central portion and a walk will lead to the graveled area.
Ground in front of the terrace will be graded to make a gradual slope to the lake about 100 yards distant.
In commenting on the new home which the Hagans hope to occupy by mid-winter, Mrs. Hagan tells friends that "it is all Stan's idea." "If any people show up for a house warming," Mrs Hagan added, "and there are any presents, I hope they bring me a pair of roller skates so I can get around in the place."
Nevertheless, Emporia admirers of contemporary architecture are looking at the Hagan house enviously and regard it as "the best yet."
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 Feb 1952, Thursday
ALL'S QUIET
Architect and Mrs. J. Stanley Hagan moved Thursday from the Stratford apartments to their new home northwest of town located on the former Dryer park golf course. Mr. Hagan reports that country sleeping was so quiet that he overslept Friday morning. To persons who inquired if he was bothered by any wild animals around his home, Hagan replied that a bird was found dead on the front flagstone terrace. He guessed the bird tried to fly through the all glass fish-bowl living room and was killed when it struck the thermopane.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 21 Feb 1952, Thursday
HE'S THE PRESIDENT
J. Stanley Hagan, senior member of the Emporia firm of Brinkman and Hagan, is the new president of the Kansas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Hagan was elected Saturday at a convention attended by about 120 Kansas architects - at Salina. Other officers of the Kansas chapter are Glen E. Benedick, of Wichita, vice president, and A. K. Bader, Salina, secretary-treasurer. Salina speakers on the convention program included C. W. Shaver, architect, who gave a talk on waterproofing, and W. M. Ostenberg, superintendent of schools.
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The Emporia Gazette, 19 Oct 1960, Wednesday
DEER, BUT NO ANTELOPE
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hagan had unexpected callers this morning: a mother deer and her half grown fawn. The visitors were sighted by the Hagans through a window as they were eating breakfast at 7:40 a.m. They came from the Sunnyslope Farm across the road west of the Hagan home at the northwest edge of Emporia. They jumped the fence around the Sunnyslope Farm and walked into the Hagan's yard. They browsed awhile around some fruit trees, hopped over a 4-1/2-feet-tall fence around a vegetable garden and after about 10 minutes ambled off to the north and over the fence on the Hatcher place.
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The Emporia Gazette, 01 Jul 1963, Monday
CLARK-HAGAN
Miss Helen Thompson Clark of Wichita, and Mr. John Stanley Hagan of Emporia, were married Thursday afternoon, June 27th, in St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Wichita.
The bride was given in marriage by her brother, Dr. Howard Clark. She wore a white lace overblouse and skirt. Her circular veil was held with a white pillbox had and she carried pink sweetheart roses and stephanotis on a white prayer book. Miss Mary Clark was the maid of honor and Mr. George Meeker served as the best man.
Dr. and Mrs. Clark entertained with a reception in their home in Wichita after the ceremony.
Mrs. Hagan is a former teacher in the Home Economics Department at Emporia State College and for the last 11 years has been coordinator of homemaking and family life education in the Wichita public schools. Mr. Hagan is a partner in the architectural firm of Brinkman and Hagan. After a wedding trip to Hawaii, they will live in the Hagan home on Route 5.
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 Jul 1973, Saturday
Gov. Robert Docking announced Wednesday he has appointed J. Stanley Hagan, 2400 Graphic Arts Road, to a four-year term on the State Registration and Examining Board for Architects. Mr. Hagan is a member of the Brinkman and Hagan architectural firm. His appointment is effective immediately.
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The Emporia Gazette, 03 May 1974, Friday
STANLEY HAGAN DIES THURSDAY
Well-Known Architect Suffers Heart Attack
J. Stanley Hagan, one of the state's best-known architects, died Thursday evening at his home, 2400 Graphic Arts St., after suffering an apparent heart attack. Mr. Hagan had maintained an office in Emporia since 1925, except for a brief period during World War II. He had been a leader in civic affairs and helped set up zoning regulations to insure the orderly growth of the town.
Mr. Hagan was born Aug. 2nd, 1899, in St. Joseph, Mo., the son of John Everett and Ella Nelson Hagan, and he received his professional training at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. He came to Emporia to join the late Henry W. Brinkman, in a firm which became known as Brinkman and Hagan. The current partner is Jerome Brinkman, son of the firm's co-founder. One of the first buildings Mr. Hagan designed as an Emporia architect was St. Mary's Cathedral in Grand Island, Neb., and one of the last, a contemporary building, St. Joseph's Church in Shawnee. He also was in charge of a current remodeling project at the Gazette building for which he had been the architect for many years.
During his long professional career, Mr. Hagan designed buildings all over the Midwest. Among them are: the Bennett Hill Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.; the Ward High School and a chancery for the Catholic Diocese of Kansas in Kansas City; two recent buildings on the University of Kansas campus -- Murphy Hall (the fine arts building) and the Engineering Hall; telephone buildings in Emporia, Parsons and Marion; courthouses and federal buildings in a number of locations, including Medicine Lodge, Larned and Dodge City; a hospital in Eureka; a number of schools and more than 100 churches in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
Buildings which Mr. Hagan and his firm have designed for Emporia are the William Lindsay White Auditorium, the Lyon County Courthouse, the Post Office and Telephone Company building, the Mutual Building and Loan Building (now Capitol Federal office), the Eureka Federal Savings and Loan Association (in Eureka as well as in Emporia), many schools, three buildings at Kansas State Teachers College and three churches, including the First Congregational, St. Andrew's Episcopal and First Christian.
Mr. Hagan, a public-spirited man, served as a member of the city and county zoning boards and as chairman of the Zoning Appeals Board. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, a member, and past president, of its Kansas Chapter; of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church; a member of the Rotary Club and the American Legion. In 1939, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Mutual Building and Loan Association where he served as officer and president of the board before the association was dissolved. He was one of the organizing members, and the first president, of the Emporia Friends of Art. He was a member of the State Registration and Examining Board of Architects. He also was a member of the board of Newman Memorial County Hospital.
Mr. Hagan was married on Nov. 2nd, 1921, in Galesburg, Ill., to Bernice Ream, who died on Feb. 3rd, 1962, and he was married on June 27th, 1963, in Wichita, to Helen Clark. He was preceded in death by his first wife and two sisters, Mildred and Mabel, and he is survived by his second wife; three daughters, Mrs. George (Virginia) Meeker, Hoyt; Mrs. Nelson (Frances) Rupard, Independence; and Mrs. John W. (Barbara) MacGregor, Medicine Lodge, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Monday in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. A J. Stanley Hagan Memorial Fund has been established at the Lyon County State Bank. Donations should be designated for either the Emporia Public Library or St. Andrew's Church.
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The Emporia Gazette, 04 May 1974, Saturday
HE WAS always Mr. Hagan to me. It would never have occurred to me to call him Stan. He was my parents' friend, and he deserved this courtesy.
Those who knew him and worked with him labeled him cantankerous, impossible, exacting, unbending. He was all of these and more. He was proud of it! He was also a loyal friend, and intelligent man, a skilled architect, a loving husband and a proud father.
He really needs no memorial. His memory will live on in the buildings he has left behind. Churches, schools, hospitals, banks, office buildings and houses. Again and again I have heard people say, "If it's a Hagan house, you can be sure it's a good house."
Some people refused to work with him -- he was a task master. He knew every nail and board that went into a building, and he watched costs with an eagle eye. He asked for perfection, and he drove himself and others to get it. If not always liked -- he was respected.
He was a grassroots man -- a Sunday farmer whose melons melted in the mouth. He was fascinated with the Orient and his home reflected this interest.
Cantankerous? Yes, he was. He was also sweet and thoughtful and he would have hated my saying so. Emporia is a more beautiful place because of him, and his friends are better people for having known him. We will miss you Mr. Hagan. -- B. W. W. [Barbara White Walker]
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The Emporia Gazette, 06 May 1974, Monday
STANLEY HAGAN A FORCEFUL MAN
Stanley Hagan was not a man to be ignored. He was a strong force in the community.
I first got to know him when he was on the planning board and I was a reporter. Right away I noticed that Mr. Hagan nearly always won his point. Sometimes the majority on the board would be lined up against him on an issue. But he was an overwhelming force and so dedicated that he usually changed enough votes to win. Often, it seemed to me, board members yielded out of sheer exhaustion.
Over the years we got to be good friends. We argues politics (he was a Democrat). We argues religion (both of us were Episcopalians). We argued local issues.
Mr. Hagan often visited The Gazette office because he was our architect. He planned and supervised the remodeling of the building in 1968. He was proud of the new front. So were we. At the time of his death, Mr. Hagan was supervising the changes necessary to make way for our new off-set press.
His obituary Friday listed some of the buildings Brinkman and Hagan had designed. There were hundreds of them -- churches, schools municipal buildings, and many of Emporia's better homes.
But there was not enough space in the obituary column to tell about his work during World War II when he was supervising architecture at the Sunflower Ordnance Plant in DeSoto. A problem in munitions plants was that shock waves caused by accidental explosions often killed the workers. This was because that munitions buildings then were built with heavy concrete walls to contain the explosions and protect the public. But these walls also contained the shock waves which killed workers.
Mr. Hagan designed thin wooden walls that relieved the pressure. To protect people outside the plant he devised thick concrete fences between the wooden buildings and pedestrian pathways.
Last December Mr. Hagan suffered a mild heart attack. Perhaps he knew his time was running out for he began to tie up loose ends.
He also did something for his church. With Mary Kretsinger he designed a new cover for the baptismal font. Funds given in memory of his first wife provide the materials used for the cover. It is being made of hammered pewter and enamel and will be dedicated at Christmas.
J. Stanley Hagan was a strong, proud man. Mercifully he was spared the indignities of a long sickness. -- R. C. [Ray Call]
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The Emporia Gazette, 07 May 1974, Tuesday
HAGAN SERVICES HELD
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, for J. Stanley Hagan, who died Thursday evening in his home, 2400 Graphic Arts St. The services were conducted by the Rev. R. J. Bunday, rector of the church, and the Rev. John Preussner, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Kan. The acolyte was the Rev. Conrad McNeer of Topeka, the organist was William Eidenback and the ushers were Ray Call, Glen Gilpin, Richard H. James and Clay Howerton. Active pallbearers were William Kretsinger, Wylie Price, Newton F. Wilson, Jerome Brinkman, LaMar Markowitz and William T. Davis and honorary pallbearers were John Brink, Orville Hoch, W. A. Larkin, Howard Blanchard, Charles Marshall, Kenneth Miller, Ellis Christensen, L. B. and W. G. Price, Trevor Lewis, Roger Samuelson and Dudley Williams. Burial was in Memorial Lawn Cemetery.
Out-of-town relatives who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. George Meeker, Hoyt; Mr. and Mrs. John MacGregor, Elizabeth, Allison and Laird Stanley, Medicine Lodge; Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rupard, Independence; Mrs. Stephen Scotten, Great Neck, L. I., N. Y.; Mrs. Robert Clark, Topeka; the Rev. and Mrs. John Pruessner, Kansas City; and Messrs. and Mesdames John Carlson, Preston Clark and Floyd Bowen and Mesdames Gayle White and Howard Clark, all of Wichita.
The Blair Colonial Mortuary was in charge of the services.
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The Emporia Gazette, 12 Nov 1974, Tuesday
..... We leave the Way College of Emporia and glance back at Newman Hospital. The grass is green and lush, small evergreens thrive and bright red geraniums welcome the student nurses to their residence hall. I think of Stanley Hagan here -- not because he was the architect who designed the buildings, but because he spent quite a few days as a patient in the hospital, and could not relax because the faucets on the basin in his room did not match ..... Barbara White Walker
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The Emporia Gazette, 12 Jun 1975, Saturday
Helen Clark Hagan, Virginia H. Meeker, Francis H. Rupard, and Barbara H. MacGregor have sold the property which includes the Hagan home and 40 acres along Graphic Arts Road north of Emporia High School to Charles R. Green and Marvin W. Lambert. Mr. and Mrs. Green plan to move into the dwelling. Mr. Green and Mr. Lambert plan to build houses on most of the 40-acre tract. The sale of the Hagan property was arranged by Don Ek Real Estate.
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The Emporia Gazette, 30 Dec 1976, Thursday
DEVELOPMENT STARTED
Just being started is another housing development on the far northwest side of town. It is the Westridge division being developed by Charles R. Green and Marvin Wayne Lambert on a tract of nearly 40 acres formerly owned by Mrs. Stanley Hagan. It is on the east side of the extension of Graphic Arts Road, and at one time was part of the old Dryer Park Golf Course.
Eighty-seven building sites have been staked out and utility services will be installed in the spring, according to Mr. Green, who with his family lives in the former Hagan home. The lots range in size from 80 by 130 feet to 155 by 185 feet. Restrictions have been established for two areas in the development, Mr. Green said. In Block 1, containing 28 lots adjacent to the Green home, houses must have a minimum of 2,000 square feet. In the other three blocks, the minimum square footage will be 1,500.
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