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Stephen Decatur Hatch (1839–1894)
was a prominent late-19th century
architect
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who was responsible for a number of historically or architecturally significant buildings in
Manhattan
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,
New York City
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and elsewhere. He primarily designed commercial buildings.
Early life, family and education
Stephen Hatch was born in
Swanton,
Vermont
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.
His father was an inventor.
Career
Hatch relocated to New York City, finding employment as a construction inspector.
["South Street Seaport Museum 213-215 Water Street"]
Historic American Buildings Survey
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, #NY-5684 He joined the busy architectural firm of
John B. Snook
John Butler Snook (1815–1901) was an American architect who practiced in New York City and was responsible for the design of a number of notable cast-iron buildings, most of which are now in and around the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, as ...
in 1860 as a draftsman.
Hatch left the Snook firm around 1864 to start his own practice. He became the architect of the
U.S. War Department
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, responsible for construction of military posts in New York.
His practice began to flourish in 1868.
Personal life and demise
Hatch died in 1894, during the construction of an extension to the headquarters building of the
New York Life Insurance Company
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.
Works
;Manhattan
*213-215 Water Street – warehouse, built 1868 for A.A. Thompson & Co., now part of
South Street Seaport Museum
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, within the
South Street Seaport Historic District
*118 East 18th Street – built 1868
*
Gilsey House Hotel
Gilsey House is a former eight-story 300-room hotel located at 1200 Broadway at West 29th Street in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is a New York City landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.
History
G ...
– 1200 Broadway, built 1869–1871, converted to residential use 1980, a
New York City landmark
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(1979)
*836-838 Broadway – built 1876-1877
*
Robbins & Appleton Building
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– manufacturing, built 1879–1880, a New York City landmark (1979)
*Schepp Building – warehouse, 45-53 Hudson Street, built 1880, within the
Tribeca North Historic District
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*165 Duane Street – lofts, built 1881, within the Tribeca West Historic District
*Murray Hill Hotel – Park Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, built 1884, razed 1947
*U.S. Army Building – also known as 3 New York Plaza, Water & Whitehall Streets, offices, built 1886
*168 Duane Street – warehouse, built 1886–1887, within the Tribeca West Historic District,
[New York City Landmark Preservation Commission, p. 21] Dutch Revival style
*Manhattan Savings Institution – also known as Bleecker Tower, 644 Broadway, built 1889–1891, within the
NoHo Historic District
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*Fleming Smith Warehouse – 451-453 Washington Street, built 1891–1892, a New York City landmark (1978)
*Roosevelt Building – lofts, 839-841 Broadway, built 1893
*
Former New York Life Insurance Company Building
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– also known as the Clock Tower Building, offices, 346 Broadway, built 1894–1895, completed by
McKim, Mead & White
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, a New York City landmark (1987) and on the
National Register of Historic Places
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(1982)
*United States Custom House (now the Federal Hall National Memorial) and the
American Surety Building
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, both located in lower Manhattan.
;Elsewhere
*
Methodist Episcopal Church
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–
Madison, New Jersey
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Located along the Morris & Essex Lines, it is noted for Madison's historic railroad station becoming one ...
, built 1870, on the National Register of Historic Places (2008)
*
Jubilee Hall –
Fisk University
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In 1930, Fisk was the first Africa ...
,
Nashville, Tennessee
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, built 1876, a
National Historic Landmark
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(1974)
*Laclede Building –
St. Louis, Missouri
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, built 1888
"The Gilsey House - 29th and Broadway"
Accessed:2010-11-20
*Eisenhower Executive Office Building
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, Rooms 231 & 232 – Washington, D.C.
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, office suite for the U.S. Secretary of War
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, completed March 1888["History of Rooms 231 and 232"]
on the White House website
*Designed State Capitol building in Providence, Rhode Island.
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1839 births
1894 deaths
Architects from New York City
Architects from Vermont
Cast-iron architecture in New York City
19th-century American architects