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This Trust was created to be shared by the public as a depository of wealth of information and historic importance
of Mr. Prince's experiences of creativity of his professional life.
Mr. NEAL ADAIR PRINCE was Born in Corsicana, Texas
and armed with degrees in architecture and architectural engineering from Rice University. Neal Prince did military service
with the United States Army 39th Combat Engineers in Italy. Returning to Texas, he became active in the Houston Little Theatre
which produced a prizewinning play that he had authored. After a period as director of the Little Theatre, he went to the
east coast and served for a season as Director of a Summer Stock Theater Company in New Hampshire. A spell in New York with
the Actors Studio brought him to the classical quandary of those bitten by the theatre bug: a regular job supporting a regular
diet or stick it out on the Rialto. Creature comfort won and through the Architectural League he secured a position with the
firm (York & Sawyer) which was noted for the design of hospitals; after several months of observations in New York Bellevue
Hospital, Mr. Prince became the firm's expert on the layout and planning of emergency rooms. In due course he decided against
a lifetime in health care architecture, switched firms, and was assigned a project to design a motorway restaurant complex
for Restaurant Associates, the New York area's most creative force in restaurant operations at the time. The job involved
a complete package: architecture, engineering and interior. Mr. Prince took a genuine interest in the latter, and made a seminal
career move to Ballard where, at Byron Calhoun's request, he did ad hoc work on a project to remodel the Hotel Jaragua in
Ciudad Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, most of which work was never carried out, and a modest remodeling of the San Juan
Hotel. Ballard had a contract for the interiors of the Phoenicia Inter-Continental in Beirut and Mr. Prince was sent out there
to work on the interiors and also, because of his background, to represent architect Edward Stone in matters of interior layouts
and finishes. All the furniture pieces were designed from scratch and were manufactured locally. In January 1961, Mr. Prince
was hired to work full time as the Director of Interior Design in the Pan Am Development Department with the intention, at
least in developing countries, that Inter-Continental Hotel would produce its hotels' interior designs "in house" and be reimbursed
at cost under the TSA's. Mr. Prince shortly engaged Kenneth Smith, an interior designer from Ballard, and Charles Alvey, a
specialist in graphics and industrial design. Mr. Prince's concepts and ideas were the forefront of its time, after designing
and opening 154 Inter-Continental Hotels from 1961-1985, Mr. Prince has gain the deepest respect on the International level.
Mr. Prince is a person of who uses function with style which mostly are lacking in today’s designs. With his ability
to design each new Hotel using local materials and talents, such as the native artists and craftsman, he produce each Hotel
with its own personality and flare but maintained the Corporate highest standards of which Inter-Continental Hotel was formed
from. Mr. Prince gains the respect and acceptance by the local authorities. This
in turn avoided any local resistance in building the new Hotels around the world. With the assistance of Charles Alvey, Kenneth
Smith, James Ray Baker and Richard W. Simpson created an industry of Hotel design and personalities that reflected each property.
Inter-Continental Hotels gain much growth and respect through out the world by those concepts of designs. Still today, his
work is unknown on a domestic level, but is concepts and designs are still cherished by guest, management and the organization
of Inter-Continental Hotels Group. It is much to be learned from Mr. Prince's long history of experience from his first hotel
of the Phoenicia Inter-Continental Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon to his last project doing the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel
in Washington, D.C. Much is to be learned and passed down from Mr. Prince great experience and knowledge, it is important
that this project be past upon us in an educational manner. It is important that his experience's and knowledge base, which
are still called upon as consultant, to be learned and shared for others to appreciate with respect and honor.

The Mission of this website reflects the various collections that were purchased together or separately by Neal Prince
and Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. with additional comment on Mr. Prince's experience as Vice President of Interior and Graphic
Design for the Inter-Continental Hotels. This collections is held by the NEAL ADAIR PRINCE TRUST and includes such artists
as G.R. Aylmer, H.R. Barbor,& Eugene Berman, Randolph Beaumont (re: James Ray Baker), Banko Bijelic, Sir Edward Coley
Burne-Jones, Charles Edward Condor, Robert Courtright, Richard Dadd, Bob Duncan, Sir John Everett, Serge Ferat, Enid
Foster, Ernst Fuchs, Robert Galster, Jane Greenwood, Hector Germain Guimard, Hein Heckroth, Utagawa Hiroshige, Dudley
Huppler, Conrad Kiesel, Dong Kingman, Gustav Klimt, Jules Emile Leleu, Privat Livemont, Alexandre Lunois, Syd Mead,
Francis Luis Mora, Alphonse Mucha, Michael Palmer, Paul Ranson, Howard Russell, Mlle. H. Scbeud, Kevin Schneider,
George Segal, Walter Sickert, Albert Edward Sterner, Ida Bagus Tilem, Kamilo Vujcic, Andy Warhol, Stanford White, Willie
White, Jacques Villon, Robert Yahn and various others.

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NEAL ADAIR PRINCE,
Architect Emeritus, ASID -Biography Summary
ARCHITECT, INTERIOR DESIGNER, PLAYWRIGHT,
DIRECTOR
PERSONAL
b. Corsicana, Texas, January
10, 1921; son, Fred Douglas and Opal Prince; mar. Frances Wooters Denman, October 7, 1944 (div. 1951); 2 sons, Neal Denman
Prince b. June 21, 1946 & Peyton Denman Prince, b. September 19, 1949 (grandchildren of Justin Prince, b. June 14, 1982
and Allyson Prince, b. September 8, 1986); 1950-1964 associated with Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.; 1966-1991 associated
with George Kocyk;
EDUCATION
1934-38 Corsicana High School, Graduated 19381938-43 Rice University, Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering,
CAREER
1944-46, served to 1st Lt. 39th Combat of Engineers
HQ, AUS;1947-48, Architect, Ernest L. Shultz Architect, Houston, Texas;1949, Playwright and Business Manager,
Houston Little Theatre, Houston, Texas;1950, Director, Wyndham Playhouse, New Hampshire;1950-53, Architect,
York & Sawyer Architects, New York, New York;1954-57, Architect and Designer, Schoen & Hennessy Architects,
New York, New York;1958-60, Chief Architect and Designer, Walter M. Ballard Corporation, New York, New York;1961-85
Vice President Interior & Graphic Design, Pan-Am / Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation; 1986-00 President, Prince
Hotels Development PHD, Inc., New York, New York;2001-Present, Consultant to the Hospitality Industry;
MEMBERSHIPS
Texas Board of Architects - Emeritus
American Society of Interior Designers,
Actors Equity
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