Prindle, Patrick and Associates
| Industry | Architecture |
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| Founded | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. (1957) |
| Founder | Theodore Hord Prindle |
| Headquarters | Columbus, Ohio, United States |
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Area served
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International |
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Key people
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Theodore Hord Prindle; Allen L. Patrick |
| Services | Architecture, Urban Design, Urban planning |
Prindle, Patrick and Associates was an architectural firm founded by architect Theodore Hord Prindle in 1957 as Titus & Prindle. The firm designed a wide range of buildings, but specialized in jails, prisons, and other correctional facilities. Its most notable projects include the Municipal Court, Hall of Justice, jail, and couorthouse annex at the Franklin County Government Center in Columbus, Ohio, and the courthouse, jail, and county sheriff headquarters at the Justice Center Complex in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm dissolved in 1991.
After graduating from The Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in architecture, Prindle co-founded the architectural firm of Titus and Prindle in Columbus, Ohio, in 1957. After his partner left the firm in the early 1960s, the name of the firm was changed to Ted H. Prindle and Associates. The firm opened an office in Clearwater, Florida, in 1966. In December 1966, it won a contract to design the Franklin County, Ohio, jail in Columbus, and it built a bank branch in Zanesville, Ohio, in August 1967.
By 1969, Prindle had taken on Allen L. Patrick, a 1962 graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and the firm changed its name to Prindle & Patrick. Prindle moved to Clearwater in 1971, leaving Patrick to manage the Columbus office. Patrick increasingly specialized in correctional facilities, courthouses, and similar justice-related structures, and the firm designed such facilities in Ireland, Nigeria, and Turkey as well as the United States. The firm built a large number of justice-related structures in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, becoming extremely well known for its corrections work even as it continued to design a wide range of other structures.
In the 1970s, Prindle & Patrick built a number of justice-related structures in Columbus, including the Franklin County Jail (1970), the 10-story Franklin County Hall of Justice (1973), the Franklin County Courthouse Annex (1975), and the 19-story Franklin County Municipal Court (1979). The Municipal Court won the firm a Bridge Prize for merit for its elevated pedestrian skywalk from the American Institute of Steel Construction. The firm also renovated the county jail in Hocking County, Ohio, in 1973. Prindle & Patrick designed the Sarasota County Jail in Sarasota County, Florida, in 1975. The county sued the firm in 1983 over a leaky roof, an exterior facade which broke off in sections, and poor plumbing. Prindle & Patrick countered that its design was not at fault; the contractor (which had since gone bankrupt) performed shoddy work, and Prindle & Patrick was not responsible for ensuring that the contractor did its job. In 1976, Patrick designed a new jail for the city of Lexington, Kentucky, which replaced two facilities built in the 1800s. That same year, the firm designed the massive Justice Center Complex in Cleveland, Ohio. This included the 26-story Courts Tower and the 10-story Corrections Center (which houses the Cuyahoga County Sheriff Department as well as the Cuyahoga County Jail).
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