Philip Hooker

Philip Hooker

Infobox Architect


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name = Philip Hooker
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birth_date = 1766
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death_date = 1836
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significant_buildings= Hyde Hall, Albany City Hall
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Philip Hooker was at one time the leading architect of New York State outside of New York City. He designed Hyde Hall, the facade of the Hamilton College Chapel, Albany Academy, Albany City Hall, and the original New York State Capitol building.cite web|url=http://www.hydehall.org |title=Hyde Hall—History and Architecture (click on History and Architecture)|publisher=Hyde Hall, Inc.]

An existing National Register of Historic Places building that he designed, with John H. Lothrop, is:
*Hamilton College Chapel on the Hamilton College campus.

Two other NRHPs that are also National Historic Landmarks which he designed are:
*Hyde Hall, at Otsego Lake and
*Roscoe Conkling House, in Utica, New York.

He was also a politician and a member of the "Albany Regency."

He was buried at Albany Rural Cemetery, in Menands, New York. [Find-a-grave]

Two monographs have been written on Hooker's work: Edward W. Root. Philip Hooker: A Contribution to the Study of the Rensaissance in America (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons), 1929.Douglas G. Bucher and Walter Richard Wheeler. A Neat Plain Modern Stile: Philip Hooker and His Contemporaries, 1796-1836 (Amherst, Mass.:University Of Massachusetts Press), 1993.

References

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1320 Philip Hooker, at Find-a-grave]


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