Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin
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| Born | September 5, 1855 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | March 21, 1926 (aged 70) New York, New York, US |
| Education | Amherst College |
| Occupation | Architect |
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Minnie Florence Marston
(m. 1885) |
| Children | 4 |
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Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin, A.M., L.H.D. (September 5, 1855 – March 21, 1926) was an American architect.
Biography
[edit]Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin was born at Constantinople on September 5, 1855, the son of missionaries Cyrus Hamlin and Harriet Martha Hamlin.[1][2] He graduated from Amherst in 1875, studied architecture in Boston and Paris, and afterward began teaching architecture at Columbia in its school of engineering. He was director from 1903 to 1912.
His relative, Hannibal Hamlin, was vice president of the United States under Abraham Lincoln, during the American Civil War.
He wrote many articles in the professional magazines and was the author of A Text-Book of the History of Architecture (1906). He was one of the men who collaborated to write European and Japanese Gardens (1902).
He married Minnie Florence Marston on June 4, 1885, and they had four children.[2]
He was struck by a car while crossing Riverside Drive in Manhattan on the night of March 21, 1926, and died shortly after being brought to St. Luke's Hospital.[3]
Selected publications
[edit]- History of Architectural Styles (1893)
- In Memoriam: Cyrus Hamlin, Missionary (1903)
- A Text-Book of the History of Architecture (1906)
- Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin; Charles B.J. Snyder (1910). Modern School Houses; a series of authoritative articles on planning, sanitation, heating and ventilation (PDF). The Swetland Publishing Co.
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Boring, William A. (1932). "Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster". In Malone, Dumas (ed.). Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 8 (Grinnell-Hibbard). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 193–194. Retrieved September 1, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- 1 2 Chamberlain, Joshua L., ed. (1899). Universities and Their Sons. Vol. II. Boston: R. Herndon Company. p. 426. Retrieved May 8, 2025 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "Dr. A. D. F. Hamlin Dies From Auto Accident". The Brooklyn Daily Times. March 22, 1926. p. 24. Retrieved May 8, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
[edit]- Works by A. D. F. Hamlin at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin at the Internet Archive
- A. D. F. Hamlin architectural drawings and papers, circa 1835–1926. Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives Archived June 23, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
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