William Haugaard

[[File:AlfredESmithBuildingPanorama.jpg|right|thumb|Alfred E. Smith Building]] [[File:Attica, New York (Correctional Facility).JPG|right|thumb|Attica State Prison]] '''William E. Haugaard''' (1889 – September 1948) was an American architect who served as the State Architect for the State of New York from 1928 to 1944. A number of his works have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

== Life == Haugaard obtained degrees from the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute in 1908 and later studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1913 to 1918, he worked in Panama and designed a number of buildings in the Canal Zone, and assisted in design of the Gorgas Hospital. From 1920 to 1928, he was a member of the firm of Haugaard & Burnham in New York City.<ref name=SA/><ref name=frontpage/>

In February 1928, Haugaard was appointed as the State Architect for the State of New York.<ref name=SA>{{cite news|title=Haugaard Is Named As State Architect|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 12, 1928}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The State Architect|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 14, 1928|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/02/14/archives/the-state-architect.html}}</ref> He served as state architect from 1928 until 1944 and designed numerous state office buildings, prisons, hospitals, and schools, including Attica State Prison.<ref name=obit/> His works included a dozen armories during that period.<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning>{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=14111|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Corning Armory|date=December 2002|access-date=2009-06-14 |author=Nancy L. Todd|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation}} ''See also:'' {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=14109|title=Accompanying seven photos}}</ref><ref>{{NRHP url|id=64500442|title=Army National Guard Armories in New York State MPS}}</ref>

Haugaard resigned as state architect in January 1944, after 16 years of service. Haugaard announced at the time that he sought to return to a private architecture practice.<ref name=frontpage>{{cite web|url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2019/Albany%20NY%20Knickerbocker%20News/Albany%20NY%20Knickerbocker%20News%201944/Albany%20NY%20Knickerbocker%20News%201944%20-%200069.pdf |title=Haugaard Quits |publisher=Albany NY Knickerbocker News |date=January 6, 1944}}</ref><ref name=NYT>{{cite news|title=Quits Architecture Post: W. E. Haugaard Has Served as State Commissioner 16 Years|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 8, 1944}}</ref> At the time of his resignation, Haugaard estimated that $250 million of the State of New York's $450 million investment in public buildings had been expended during his 16 years in office.<ref name=NYT/>

In 1947 he became chief of planning for the New York City Housing Authority.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/09/18/archives/we-hau6aari-9-lon6-an-architect-state-bureau-head-n-1928.html |work=New York Times |date =September 18, 1948 |title=W.E. Haugaard, 59, Long an Architect}}</ref>

For many years, Haugaard lived in Munsey Park, New York.<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Haugaard from Munsey Park in 1940 Census District 30-235 |url=http://www.archives.com/1940-census/william-haugaard-ny-65603826 |access-date=2021-09-06 |website=www.archives.com}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Todd |first=Nancy L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0I7efjujcFQC |title=New York's Historic Armories: An Illustrated History |date=2006-09-14 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-7914-8099-1 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite news |date=February 25, 1937 |title=Manhasset Press. (Manhasset, N.Y.) 1934-current, February 25, 1937, Image 1 |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn95071155/1937-02-25/ed-1/seq-1/ |access-date=2021-09-06 |work=The Manhasset Press}}</ref>

== Works == Haugaard designed the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Building that is part of New York's American Museum of Natural History. He designed the Alfred E. Smith Building in Albany, New York.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-d6r8OhSz3MC&pg=PA120 |title=Richmond Hill |author=Carl Ballenas and Nancy Cataldi |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2002}}</ref>

A number of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>

===Selected works=== *Attica State Prison<ref name=obit/><ref name=NYT/> *Binghamton Armory, built 1932-1934<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/> *Masten Avenue Armory (Buffalo), built 1932-1933<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/> *New York State College of Human Ecology Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, built 1933, 116 Reservoir Ave, City of Ithaca, Tompkins, New York <ref>{{cite book|last1=Federal Writers Project|title=The WPA Guide To New York : The Empire State|date=2013|publisher=Trinity University Press|location=San Antonio|isbn=9781595342300}}</ref> *Corning Armory, built 1935-1936, at 127 Centerway, Corning, New York, NRHP-listed<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/><ref name=nris/> *Green Haven State Prison, Poughkeepsie, New York<ref name=NYT/> *Halloran General Hospital, later known as Willowbrook State School, Staten Island<ref name=obit/><ref name=NYT/> *Hawkins Hall, Beekman St., Plattsburgh, New York<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/> *Jamestown Armory, 1932, at 34 Porter Ave., Albany, New York, NRHP-listed<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/><ref name=nris/> *Kingstown Armory, 1932<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/> *Louis J. Lefkowitz Building (80 Centre Street) *Newburgh Armory, 1932<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/> *Oneida Armory, 1930, 217 Cedar St., Oneida, New York, NRHP-listed<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/><ref name=nris/> *Peekskill Armory, 1932<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/> *Schenectady Armory, 1936, 125 Washington Ave., Schenectady, New York, NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Syracuse Armory, 1941-1943<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/> *Transit Authority Headquarters (1951), 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, originally Board of Transportation Building (William E. Haugaard & Andrew J. Thomas).<ref>{{cite news|title=A Preservationist's List of 35 Modern Landmarks-in-Waiting|date=November 17, 1996|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/17/realestate/a-preservationist-s-list-of-35-modern-landmarks-in-waiting.html}}</ref> *Utica Armory, 1930, 1700 Parkway Blvd. E., Utica, New York, NRHP-listed<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/><ref name=nris/> *Ticonderoga Armory, 1935, at 315 Champlain Ave., Ticonderoga, New York, NRHP-listed<ref name=nrhpinv_ny_Corning/><ref name=nris/> *Alfred E. Smith Building, Albany, New York

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