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.North Carolina Architects and Builders, A Biographical Dictionary: Hobart Brown Upjohn
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). 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.
He closed his practice in 1945, and died in Poughkeepsie on August 23, 1949.
A number of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Notable works
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 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 Church of St. Joseph of Arimathea, 2172 Saw Mill River Rd., Greenburgh, NY (Upjohn, Hobart), NRHP-listed First Presbyterian Church, Portico, Steeple, Parish House, & Chapel, Ann and Bow Sts., Fayetteville, NC (Upjohn, Hobart), NRHP-listed First Presbyterian Church, 125 S. 3rd St., Wilmington, NC Mead Memorial Chapel, 2 Chapel Rd., Lewisboro, NY (Upjohn, Hobart B.), NRHP-listed All Saints Episcopal Church (1917) in the Roanoke Rapids Historic District, Roanoke Rapids, NC Scarsdale Woman's Club, 37 Drake Rd., Scarsdale, NY (Upjohn, Hobart), NRHP-listed 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 St. Catherine's School, 6001 Grove Ave., Richmond, VA (Upjohn, Hobart), NRHP-listed St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 68 Bedford Rd., Katonah, New York (Upjohn, Hobart B.), NRHP-listed 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 Church of St. James the Less, 10 Church Lane, Scarsdale, New York Scarsdale Community Baptist Church, 51 Popham Road, Scarsdale, New York
See also Harde & Short Trinity Cathedral. Columbia, SC
References
External links
Columbia University Libraries: The Upjohn collection of architectural drawings by Richard, Richard Michell, and Hobart Upjohn :Architectural drawings, papers, and records, (circa 1827-1910) Guide to the Hobart Upjohn Architectural Drawings of the Roanoke Rapids Senior High School 1920-1938