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Francis Laurens Vinton Hoppin (October 7, 1866 – October 9, 1941) was a prominent

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and painter from

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Early life

Hopping was born on October 7, 1866 in

. He was a son of Dr. Washington Hoppin (1824–1867), a homeopathic physician, and Louise Claire (

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Vinton) Hoppin (1832–1891). Among his siblings was

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, Louise Claire Hoppin (a founder of the

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), Harriet (née Hoppin) Jacob, and Washington Hoppin, Jr. Francis was from a prominent and talented Providence family; his paternal grandparents were Thomas Coles Hoppin and Harriet Dunn (née Jones) Hoppin. His maternal grandparents were Maj. John Rogers Vinton (who was killed during the

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and became the namesake of

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) and Lucretia Dutton (née Parker) Vinton of

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. Among his paternal uncles were

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, a prominent illustrator (who wrote about the family in his novel, ''Recollections of Auton House''), and Dr. Courtland Hoppin, also a homeopathic physician, was the grandfather of

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, a pioneer in the field of

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. His maternal uncle, David Hammond Vinton, Quartermaster General of Florida (who married Pamela, a daughter of

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), was the father of

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Alexander Hamilton Vinton, the first Bishop of Western Massachusetts, and Harriette Arnold Vinton (wife of Dr. John Clarkson Jay, son of Dr. John Clarkson Jay). After early training at the Trinity Military Institute, Providence, he prepared for a career in the

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, but left to study architecture at

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and at the

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. After MIT, he went to

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for training, but apparently not at the

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as has been reported.

Career

Brooklyn Museum - Design for the Brooklyn Museum of Art - Francis L

On returning to the United States, Hoppin joined the firm of

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in 1886. Reportedly, while with the firm, McKim noted Hoppin's exceptional skill at rendering with one architectural historian writing: "Among architects that had a facility for perspective Francis L.V. Hoppin stands out..." He became the office specialist in perspective, exemplified in his drawings for the Century Club and

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. Fellow office architect,

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, characterized Hoppin's drawings as "colored, blue sky and trees where there aren't any, and flying shadows on the building, you know, a real snappy piece of work." In 1890, he joined his brother

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and Spencer P. Read to form a new firm was known as Hoppin, Read & Hoppin. They worked together until 1896, when Francis left to found the firm of

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in New York City with Terence A. Koen. The firm was based is known for police stations, fire stations and dignified town houses in the

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. Among his apprentices at Hoppin & Koen were Robert P. Huntington and Dudley Newton, Jr., the son of a prominent Newport architect. The firm became well known for its large

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s in the most fashionable parts of America during the

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. They designed homes for

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(a relative), James F. D. Lanier, Andrew C. Zabriskie, John J. Wysong,

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, and

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. One of Hoppin's best known works was The Mount,

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's home in Lenox. Wharton commissioned the firm to design her Lenox residence (with major input from her at every stage of the process), after having a falling out with

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Hoppin retired in 1923 to pursue a career as an artist, and Koen died the following year in 1923. When the

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began, Hoppin enlisted in the 12th Regiment of the

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, reaching the rank of

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, and at one time was

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of the First Brigade, New York National Guard. He was later granted the title of "Colonel" by Gov. Charles Seymour Whitman, which he answered for the rest of his life.

Painting career

In 1925 and 1929, Hoppin gave a one-man show of his

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in New York. He largely painted on location at visits to

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, Paris, Newport and

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. He produced dozens of watercolors usually of architectural subjects or of gardens.

Notable architectural projects

As Hoppin, Read & Hoppin, 1890–1896: * Charles Street Grammar School (1891), 291 Charles St., Providence, RI - Demolished. * Olney Street Fire Station (1892), 355 Hope St., Providence, RI''Historic and Architectural Resources of the East Side, Providence: A Preliminary Report''. 1989. *

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Residence (1892), 4 Manning St., Providence, RI - Demolished in 1972. * Harry A. Waldron Residence (1893), 9 Stimson Ave., Providence, RIWoodward, Wm. McKenzie. ''Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources''. 1986. *

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Residence (1894),

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- Demolished in 1970. *

Residence (), 86 Brown St., Providence, RI - His brother's residence. * Maxcy Hall (1895), 108 George St.,

, Providence, RI - Altered. * Stephen A. Cooke Residence (1895), 37 Manning St., Providence, RI As Hoppin & Koen, 1896–1922: * Charles W. Cooper Residence (1900),

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Residence "Armsea Hall" (1901), Newport, RI (next to

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) - Demolished in 1969 * James F. D. Lanier Residence (1901–1903), 123 East 35th Street, New York, NY. * Andrew C. Zabriskie Residence " Blithewood" (1902), Annandale-on-Hudson, NY * Edward and

Residence " The Mount" (1902), 2 Plunkett Street,

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. * Richard Thornton Wilson Jr. Residence (1905), 15

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, New York, NY. * Morton Memorial Library (1905),

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* New York City Police Headquarters (1905–1909), 240 Centre Street, New York, NY * Clarence S. Wadsworth Residence (1909–1911)

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* George Rose Residence "Overland House" (1910), Old Westbury, NY - Demolished * New York City Fire Department Building (1911), East 111th Street and Second Avenue, New York, NY. * Mount Morris Theater (1911–1912), at

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and 116th Street, New York, NY. * Newbold Morris Residence (1913), Lenox, MA * Albany County Courthouse (1913–1915), Eagle Street,

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- Renovation and expansion in 2006. * Sara Delano Roosevelt Residence renovation (1915), Hyde Park, NY * Sterling Postley Residence "Framewood" (1918), Upper Brookville, NY * United States Housing Corporation Historic District (1919),

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Residence "Southways" (1919–1920),

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Residence (1922),

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* George B. McClellan Jr. Residence (1922),

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* Manhattan Terminal of the

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(undated), Not constructed.

Personal life

On June 3, 1893, Hoppin was married to Sarah Carnes Weeks (1863–1956) at Oyster Bay on

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. She was the youngest daughter of John Abeel Weeks (son of Robert D. Weeks, co-founder and

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) and Alice Hathaway (née

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) Weeks (a distant cousin of

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). Sarah was a first cousin of Henry W. DeForest and Robert W. DeForest. In 1910, he married, secondly, to Mary Latham Gurnee (1880–1968), a daughter of Walter Scott Gurnee and Mary Isabelle (née Barney) Gurnee (daughter of Danford N. Barney, president of

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). After his retirement, the Hoppins were frequent hosts at their homes in Newport, and Palm Beach. Hoppin died at Auton House, his residence on Harrison Avenue in

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on October 9, 1941. Hoppin had two services, first at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Newport and second at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York City before being buried at

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. After his death, his widow remarried twice; first to Alfred Hudson Townley in 1949 (former Justice of the First Judicial Department in New York and widower of Martha Depew Strang, niece of

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); and, after his death in 1954, Cyril Barthurst Judge (whose late wife, Annie Lyman, had also died in 1954) past president of the

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, in 1963.

References

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Hoppin & Koen architectural drawings and photographs, circa 1900-1922

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* Portrait o
Mrs. Francis Laurens Vinton Hoppin (1863-1956)
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