Hobart Upjohn

{{Short description|American architect}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox architect |name = Hobart Upjohn |image = Hobart Brown Upjohn (1876–1949).png |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1876|5|2}} |birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, US |death_date = {{Death date and age|1949|8|23|1876|5|2}} |death_place = Poughkeepsie, New York, US |practice = |significant_buildings= Mead Memorial Chapel <br> First Presbyterian Church |significant_projects = |significant_design = |awards = }} '''Hobart Brown Upjohn''' (1876–1949) 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.<ref name="ncarch">[http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000078 ''North Carolina Architects and Builders, A Biographical Dictionary'': Hobart Brown Upjohn]</ref>

==Biography== He was born in Brooklyn on May 2, 1876, a son of Richard M. Upjohn (1828–1903) and grandson of Richard Upjohn (1802–1878).<ref name=StatesmanObit>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-herald-statesman-h-b-upjohn-of-sca/176799811/ |title=H. B. Upjohn of Scarsdale Dies; Won 5 Church Design Awards |newspaper=The Herald Statesman |publication-place=Yonkers, New York |place=Scarsdale, New York |page=2 |date=1949-08-24 |access-date=2025-07-16 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> 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 (1866–1933) 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.<ref name="nris"/><ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=14072|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration:Rye Town Park-Bathing Complex and Oakland Beach|date=August 2002|accessdate=2010-12-30 |first=Peter D. |last=Shaver|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation}}</ref>

He closed his practice in 1945, and died in Poughkeepsie on August 23, 1949.<ref name="ncarch"/><ref name=StatesmanObit/>

A number of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

* Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) Church (1925), Main Tower, and Cloister * Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York * Mead Memorial Chapel * Roanoke Rapids High School, 800 Hamilton St., Roanoke Rapids, NC (Upjohn, Hobart Brown), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> * St. Athanasius Episcopal Church and Parish House and the Church of the Holy Comforter, Burlington, North Carolina * Christ Episcopal Church, Parish House & Chapel, 120 E. Edenton St., Raleigh, NC (Upjohn, Hobart), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> * Church of St. Joseph of Arimathea, 2172 Saw Mill River Rd., Greenburgh, NY (Upjohn, Hobart), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> * First Presbyterian Church, Portico, Steeple, Parish House, & Chapel, Ann and Bow Sts., Fayetteville, NC (Upjohn, Hobart), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> * First Presbyterian Church, 125 S. 3rd St., Wilmington, NC * Mead Memorial Chapel, 2 Chapel Rd., Lewisboro, NY (Upjohn, Hobart B.), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> * All Saints Episcopal Church (1917) in the Roanoke Rapids Historic District, Roanoke Rapids, NC<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | author=Thomas R. Butchko| title=Roanoke Rapids Historic District| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date =May 1998 | url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/HX1510.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2015-01-01}}</ref> * Scarsdale Woman's Club, 37 Drake Rd., Scarsdale, NY (Upjohn, Hobart), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> * St. Athanasius Episcopal Church and Parish House and the Church of the Holy Comforter, 300 E. Webb Ave. and 320 E. Davis St., Burlington, NC (Upjohn, Hobart), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> * St. Catherine's School, 6001 Grove Ave., Richmond, VA (Upjohn, Hobart), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> * St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 68 Bedford Rd., Katonah, New York (Upjohn, Hobart B.), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> * Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, original Parish House, Greensboro, North Carolina * First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina * Temple Emanuel, (N. Greene St., Greensboro, North Carolina) * Unitarian Church of All Souls (1931–32), Lexington Avenue, New York City * Grace Methodist Church (Greensboro, North Carolina) * First Presbyterian Church (High Point, North Carolina) * First Presbyterian Church (Concord, North Carolina) * The Village Chapel (Pinehurst, North Carolina) * North Carolina State University Library (now Brooks Hall) (Raleigh, North Carolina) * North Carolina State University, Bagwell, Becton, and Berry Quadrangle (Raleigh, North Carolina) * First Presbyterian Church (Houston) (1947) 5300 Main Street, Houston, Texas * Wyoming Presbyterian Church, 432 Wyoming Avenue, Millburn, New Jersey<ref>{{cite news |last=Cartwright |first=Alan |date=October 17, 1968 |title=Wyoming Presbyterian Church |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/539810151/ |work=The Item |location=Millburn, NJ |publisher= |access-date=September 28, 2025}}</ref> * Church of St. James the Less, 10 Church Lane, Scarsdale, New York<ref name="Tucker">{{cite news |last=Sparrow |first=Dorothy |date=April 18, 1969 |title=Mrs. Tucker Reelected at SWC |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/910879976/ |work=The Reporter Dispatch |location=White Plains, NY |publisher= |access-date=January 16, 2025}}</ref> * Scarsdale Community Baptist Church, 51 Popham Road, Scarsdale, New York<ref name="Tucker" />

==See also== * Harde & Short * Trinity Cathedral. Columbia, SC

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==External links== {{Commons category}}

* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_3460571/ Columbia University Libraries: The Upjohn collection of architectural drawings by Richard, Richard Michell, and Hobart Upjohn :Architectural drawings, papers, and records, (circa 1827-1910)] * [https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mc00417 Guide to the Hobart Upjohn Architectural Drawings of the Roanoke Rapids Senior High School 1920-1938]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Upjohn, Hobart}} Category:American ecclesiastical architects Category:American residential architects Category:Architects of Anglican churches Category:Architects of Presbyterian churches Category:Architects from New York City Category:Stevens Institute of Technology alumni Category:1876 births Category:1949 deaths Category:20th-century American architects