{{short description|American architect}} {{Infobox architect | name = Hyman Witcover | image = Hyman Witcover.jpg | caption = Witcover in 1904 | birth_date = July 16, 1871 | birth_place = Darlington, South Carolina, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1936|10|2|1871|7|16}} | death_place = Darlington, South Carolina, U.S. | residence = }}
'''Hyman Wallace Witcover''' (July 16, 1871 – October 2, 1936) was an architect prominent in Savannah, Georgia. He worked as a draftsman for Alfred Eichberg and eventually partnered with him.<ref name="courthouse depot">{{cite book|title=The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair : a Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910|author=Caldwell, W.W.|date=2001|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=9780865547483|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGyf7XQeWEIC|page=549|accessdate=2015-02-09}}</ref>
==Life and career== Witcover was born in Darlington, South Carolina, in 1871, to Wolf and Dora.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Savannah Architects: Hyman Witcover |url=http://www.freemansrag.com/5/post/2016/12/savannah-architects-hyman-witcover.html |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=Freeman's Rag |language=en}}</ref>
At age 17, he moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he began work as a draftsman for noted architect Alfred Eichberg.<ref name=":0" />
Witcover served on the board of the Congregation Mickve Israel and on the first board of Savannah's public library.<ref name=":0" />
He served in the Georgia Hussars as a private, and was also in the Freemasonry fraternity.<ref name=":0" />
Witcover married Agnes Dillon.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Thompson |first=Ronald |date=1982-01-01 |title=Hyman Wallace Witcover: An Inconclusive Biography |url=https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/103 |journal=Savannah Biographies}}</ref>
==Death== Witcover died on October 2, 1936, in his hometown of Darlington, where he had returned to live with two of his sons.<ref name=":0" /> He was 65. He is interred in Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Brentwood, Maryland, alongside his wife, who predeceased him by four years.<ref name=":1" />
=== Notable works === thumb|Savannah City Hall, Witcover's most noted design * One or more works in Savannah's Ardsley Park-Chatham Crescent Historic District<ref name=nrhpdoc-Ardsley-Chatham>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=85001787}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ardsley Park-Chatham Crescent |publisher=National Park Service|author=Carolyn Brooks |date=June 6, 1985 |accessdate=August 29, 2017}}</ref> * Old Effingham County Courthouse, Springfield, Georgia<ref name="courthouse depot"/> * Germania Bank (1904, later known as the Blun Building, demolished in 1975)<ref name=sav>[https://books.google.com/books?id=wEqkPex4RmcC&dq=Hyman+Witcover&pg=PA100 Savannah] by Whip Morrison Triplett</ref> * Savannah City Hall, Savannah, Georgia (1905)<ref name=sav/> * Hicks Hotel (circa 1914)<ref name=sav/> *Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Savannah, Georgia (1912) * Liberty Bank and Trust (1915)<ref name=sav/> * Bnai Brith Jacob synagogue<ref name=sav/> * Old Judicial Building, Montgomery, Alabama, as a Scottish Rite Temple (1926)<ref>[http://www.alabar.org/publications/articles/Mar08/ED_page.pdf Executive Director's Report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212093440/http://alabar.org/publications/articles/Mar08/ED_page.pdf |date=2010-12-12 }}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Witcover, Hyman}} Category:Architects from Georgia (U.S. state) Category:People from Darlington, South Carolina Category:1871 births Category:1936 deaths Category:19th-century American architects Category:20th-century American architects Category:American Freemasons