Hanker & Cairns
# Hanker & Cairns

Hanker & Cairns was an architectural firm of Memphis, Tennessee. It was formed in 1903 as a partnership of William Julius Hanker and Baynard Snowden Cairns.

The firm has a number of works that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

## Work

Works include (with attribution to a partner or to the firm):

* Shrine Building (1923), 66 Monroe Ave., Memphis, Tennessee (Hanker & Cairns), NRHP-listed
* the "new" Peabody Hotel (1925), Memphis
* Sears and Roebuck tower (1927), Memphis
* Bank of Commerce and Trust Company Building (1929), 45 S. 2nd St., Memphis, Tennessee (Hanker & Cairns), NRHP-listed
* Cleveland Founders Historic District, roughly bounded by Victoria Ave., Sunflower Rd., Bolivar Ave., S Bayou Ave., & Avery St., Cleveland, Mississippi (Hanker & Cairns), NRHP-listed
* Crisscross Lodge, 10056 Poplar Ave., Collierville, Tennessee (Hanker & Cairns), NRHP-listed
* B. Lowenstein & Brothers Building, 27 S. Main St., Memphis, Tennessee (Hanker and Cairns), NRHP-listed
* Memphis Trust Building, 12 S. Main St., Memphis, Tennessee (Hanker & Cairns), NRHP-listed
* National Bank of Commerce Building, 200 S. Pruett St., Paragould, Arkansas (Hankers and Cairns), NRHP-listed
* Joseph Newburger House, built 1912, 168 E. Parkway, South, Memphis, Tennessee (Hanker & Cairns), NRHP-listed now the Memphis Theological Seminary
* Scimitar Building, 179 Madison Ave., Memphis, Tennessee (Hanker, William J.), NRHP-listed
* Scottish Rite Temple (Memphis, Tennessee) (Hanker and Cairns), Memphis
* Cutrer Mansion, 109 Clark Street, Clarksdale, Mississippi (Hanker & Cairns)
* Peabody Hotel
* Nineteenth Century Club
