Hobart Upjohn

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.

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.

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 Scarsdale Woman's Club, 37 Drake Rd., Scarsdale, NY (Upjohn, Hobart), NRHP-listed Church of St. James the Less, 10 Church Lane, Scarsdale, New York Scarsdale Community Baptist Church, 51 Popham Road, Scarsdale, New York