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Hughes was born on Long Island.
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Jack Hall
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He graduated from Princeton University in 1935.
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John "Jack” Hughes Hall (1913–2003) was an American architect and industrial designer working in the Modernist style. Hall is best known for his residential works on Massachusetts" Cape Cod which were designed to nestle within, rather than overtake, the natural landscape. Following graduation he worked as a freelance news reporter in Europe.
Hall began visiting Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1938, and immediately became fascinated by the landscape – enough to purchase an 180-acre (073 km2) farm compound on Bound Brook Island (no longer an island) in Wellfleet from Katie Dos Passos, wife of the writer John Dos Passos.
Following the United States. entry in World World War II Hall enlisted in the United States Army and was discharged honorably in 1946. In 1946, Hall began a design-build practice in Wellfleet which he continued intermittently until he retired.
Projects included the Peter’s Hill Restaurant building, the Hatch Cottage, and many studios, renovations, and additions. In 1956, Hall began working for a succession of New York City architectural firms including Nardin and Radoczy, Tom Lee Limited., Hughes & Hood, and George Nelson and Company.
His study of industrial design led to work on a number of major traveling exhibitions for the United States Information Agency including the exhibition "Graphics United States of America" in 1963 with Ivan Chermayeff (son of Serge Chermayeff).
While with Hughes and Hood he designed many showrooms in the United States and Europe for the Fieldcrest Mills. In 1959, he spent four months in Moscow helping to assemble an installation titled The Jungle Gym, George Nelson’s contribution to the American National Exhibition. Hill worked with Charles and Ray Eames on a light fixture in 1964 and designed a café table for the Museum of Modern Art’s restaurant.
In 1957 Hill opened an office in New York City, and began simultaneously teaching at the Parsons School of Design’s industrial design department.
Hall House Number. 1, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, circa 1952 (with Warren Nardin)
Peter"s Hill Restaurant, Truro, Massachusetts, 1953
Baker-Hall House Renovation, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 1955-1956
Hatch Cottage, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 1960
Anton Myrer House, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 1962
Watts Studio, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 1972
Judith Rothschild Studio, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 1972
Levin House Renovation, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 1972
Frederiksen Guest House, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 1972.
