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Alexander Nelson Hansell (6 October 1857: 103–104  – 1940) was a British architect known primarily for his activities in Kobe, Japan. In 1891 he became a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects He had an apprentice named Yokoyama Eikichi.: 178 




Life



Hansell was born on 6 October 1857 in Caen in Normandy, France.: 103–104 His father Peter Hansell was a British: 173  pastor,: 103–104  who had been rector of Kingsdon, Somerset before being appointed as Consular Chaplain of Caen on 11 October 1853. Father and son later returned together to Somerset, England.: 173 
At some point Alexander moved from Somerset to Winchester, where he studied architecture,: 173  and in 1888 he moved to Japan. He worked teaching English at a seminary on Lot 18 of the Kawaguchi foreign settlement in Osaka: 105  before beginning his activities as an architect. His first job was the planning of the Harris Science Hall at Doshisha University.: 105  He continued on to design the clubhouse of the newly renamed Kobe Club at the Kobe foreign settlement, and was thereafter involved in the planning of many more structures both inside the foreign settlement and in the surrounding mixed residential zone.: 105–106 
During the First World War, Alexander's only son Kenneth was killed in battle. Alexander mourned his loss greatly, and in 1920 he moved to Hankou in China, and then later to Monaco, where he died.: 178–179 
Hansell's personal residence, known as the Choueke House, is now run as a tourist attraction, located on Yamamoto-dōri in Chūō-ku, Kobe.




Important works


In and around the foreign concession
Original Kobe Club clubhouse: 1890 (in Higashi Yuenchi Park, destroyed by the war in 1945): 105–106 : 114–115 
Delacamp & Co. office at Lot 122 in the concession:: 115–116  1893: 177 
Choueke House: 1896, Hansell's own residence: 105 
Club Concordia clubhouse at Lot 126 in the concession:: 115–116  1896: 177 
German consulate at Lot 115 in the concession:: 115–116  1901: 177 
HSBC at Lot 2 in the concession:: 115–116  1902: 177 
Jardine Matheson at Lot 67 in the concession:: 115–116  1905: 177 
Guggenheim House: 1912, currently owned by the stained glass artist Michiyo Durt-Morimoto
Standard Chartered bank at Lot 67 in the concession: 115–116 
Sharp House (assumed): 1903,: 177  Important Cultural Property
Former Hassam House (assumed: 178 ): 1902,: 177  Important Cultural Property
Elsewhere
Harris Science Hall at Doshisha University: 1890, Important Cultural Property: 105 
Meiji Hall at St. Agnes' School: 1895, registered Tangible Cultural Property
Dethlefsen House, 1895, former home of A. P. Dethlefsen













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