Biography
Henry Hardinge Menzies was born in Hickory, NC on April 20,1928. He received an AB from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) 1948 graduate work at the University of Southern California 1949 From 1951 to 1955, Henry served up to Lt.. in the US Navy on active duty during the Korean War. After the war, he received his B.Arch. from School of Design at NC State University (Raleigh) 1958 While at school, he edited The Student Publications of the School of Design. His first professional tenure was for Perry, Shaw, Hepburn & Dean, Architects in Boston, MA and later with John M. Gray, Architect in Boston from 1958 to 1962. He then left to found the firm of The Architects' Group in 1962, where he conducted a private practice in Boston 1964 to 1978. Henry formed partnership of Menzies & LeMieux in New York City from 1978 to 1982. Since then he has had his own private practice in New Rochelle, NY.
Henry's work is concentrated in the institutional, residential and church fields. He has designed roughly fifteen Catholic Centers and three Marian shrines. Henry has written a number of articles in the field of church architecture and lectured on church architecture in New Canaan, CT and New York City. One such writing, called "The Incarnate Vision," was presend during a Weathersfield Institute Lecture Series. In 1996, Henry presented a paper at Notre Dame called the "Consultation on Church Architecture." His work was exhibited in Rome n 199 at the "Reconquering Sacred Space Exhibition."
Henry has been a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Menzies Clan Society and the Society for Catholic Liturgy. For many years, his biography as been publised in Who's Who in the East His biography has also appeared in the 1998 and 2000 editions of "Who's Who in America."
Henry has held architectural registrations in the following states: Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, District of Columbia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, New York, Texas and Connecticut and holds a NCARB certificate.