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Philip Hooker was an American architect from Albany, New York. He designed Hyde Hall, the facade of the Hamilton College Chapel, The Albany Academy, Albany City Hall, and the original New York State Capitol building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hyde Hall—History and Architecture (click on History and Architecture) )〕 He is believed to have designed the Gen. John G. Weaver House at Utica, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. An existing National Register of Historic Places building that he designed, with John H. Lothrop, is: *Hamilton College Chapel on the Hamilton College campus. Two other National Register of Historic Places that are also National Historic Landmarks which he designed are: *Hyde Hall, at Otsego Lake *Roscoe Conkling House, in Utica, New York Other notable buildings include: * New York State Arsenal (1799; razed) * St. Peter's Episcopal Church (1802; razed 1859) * New York State Bank (1803; portions of front elevation survive) * Bank of Albany (1809; rzed) * Mechanics and Farmers Bank (1811; portions reused in receiving vault, Glenmont) * Aiken House, Rensselaer, New York (1816) * St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (1829; razed) * Albany City Hall (1832, destroyed by fire in 1880) He also designed many private residences for wealthy Albanians including the Van Rensselaers, Cornings, Pruyns, Lansings, William James and others. One mansion attributed to him and built for Samuel Hill, is now the Fort Orange Club at 110 Washington Avenue. He was also a politician and a member of the "Albany Regency."〔 He was originally buried in the State Street Burial Grounds in Albany; his body was reinterred in the 1860s at the Albany Rural Cemetery, in lot 12, section 49, in Menands, New York.〔(Albany Rural Cemetery, Notable People ) Accessed September 1, 2010〕 Two monographs have been written on Hooker's work: *Edward W. Root. ''Philip Hooker: A Contribution to the Study of the Renaissance in America'' (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons), 1929. *Douglas G. Bucher and Walter Richard Wheeler. ''A Neat Plain Modern Stile: Philip Hooker and His Contemporaries'', 1796-1836 (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press), 1993. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Philip Hooker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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