John Martyn Haenke was a prolific German-English-American architect who was born in Germany and raised in England. Haenke was a graduate of Trinity College and the Kensington School of Art. Haenke emigrated to the United States in 1905, and moved to San Francisco in 1906.
J. Martyn Haenkewas a member of the Burlingame Country Club of Hillsborough, California, and long time friends of the Hearst family.
When Haenke designed the Los Angeles Examiner building in 1913, he was in partnership with architect William Dodd, although Dodd was not involved in the Examiner building.
J. Martyn Haenke worked on the building with Miss Julia Morgan, who had just designed the Young Women’s Christian Association assembly hall at Pacific Grove, Monterey, California for Mrs. Phoebe Hearst.
Julia soon started working for Phoebe’s son William, as associate architect to Martin Haenke for his Los Angeles Examiner building.
The initial permits were given to Haenke & Dodd and Julia Morgan.
Note – history is in the eye of the beholder.
This is the LA Conservancy’s page about the architect of the Los Angeles Examiner building: https://www.laconservancy.org/learn/historic-places/herald-examiner-building/
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