Background
Hobart B. Upjohn was born in 1876 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Hobart B. Upjohn was born in 1876 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
He studied five years at the local Polytechnic Institute, and following graduation in 1899 entered Stevens Institute of Technology for a course in Mechanical Engineering.
Mr. Upjohn turned to Architecture, and in 1905 opened an office in New York for professional practice. In the ensuing years he won recognition as a specialist in church and college architecture, and prior to his retirement in 1942 was appointed Architectural Advisor to Trinity Church Parish, where the first Richard Upjohn designed the original building in 1833.
During a long career of more than forty years in New York Mr. Upjohn’s most successfully executed designs were those of Presbyterian churches in North Carolina built at Wilmington, Greensboro and Concord; the Sprunt Memorial Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill; Episcopal Chapel at Pinehurst (Colonial in design): and the Parish House and Chapel in Raleigh, N. C. Among his other executed designs were All Soul's Unitarian Church in New York; the First Baptist in Plainfield, St. Luke's in Montclair, N. J„ and the Hill Library of the North Carolina College of Architecture and Engineering in 1926.
A member since 1915 and a past-president of the New York Chapter, A.I.A. Mr. Upjohn was raised to Institute Fellowship in 1930 and with an office in the Grand Central Terminal.