William Augustus Hazel

William Augustus Hazel (1854–1929) was an American architect, stained glass artist, educator, academic administrator, and civil rights activist. He was the first dean of the Howard University School of Architecture in 1919. and was one of the first Black stained glass artists in the United States. While appreciating, they worked on the stained glass at the Trinity Church in Boston. He was married in 1882 to Rosa Elizabeth Grosvenor Hazard at the Mathewson Street Methodist Church in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1881, Hazel was elected as the secretary for the Civil Rights Committee in Minnesota. He remained at the school for a decade.

In the summer of 1919, following the departure of the Howard University's School of Applied Arts and Mechanics department dean William Jefferson Decatur, Hazel was hired as his replacement and charged with the establishment of creating the School of Architecture. 1915, Emory School, near Greensboro, Alabama; NRHP-listed 1919, Mount Sinai School, Prattville, Alabama; NRHP-listed 1921, Home Economics Building, Howard University campus, Washington, D.C. (demolished) 1921, Dining Hall, Howard University campus, Washington, D.C. (demolished) 1922, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site ("Cedar Hill") restoration, 1411 W Street SE, Washington, D.C.