Hobart Upjohn
Architect
1876 – 1949
Who was Hobart Upjohn?
Hobart Upjohn was an American architect, best known for designing a number of ecclesiastical and educational structures in New York and in North Carolina. He also designed a number of significant private homes. His firm produced a total of about 150 projects, a third of which were in North Carolina.
He was born in New York City in 1876, a son of Richard M. Upjohn and grandson of Richard Upjohn. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1899. He worked in his father's firm until 1903 and then opened his own practice in 1905. He entered a partnership with George W. Conable in 1908. That partnership ended in 1914. One of the works produced by the partnership was the 1909 Rye Town Park-Bathing Complex and Oakland Beach, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. He closed his practice in 1945 and died in 1949.
A number of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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- Born
- 1876
New York City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- 1949
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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