Background
Hoggson was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Samuel J. Hoggson and Luey (McLean) Hoggson. His father was from Glasgow, Scotland and was an engraver and die maker.
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Noble Hoggson
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Hoggson graduated from Yale in 1888 and then continued his studies of architecture in Europe.
Career
He specialized in building and planning banks in New York City. Hoggson worked at Charles Wellford Leavitt"s firm. He established Hoggson Brothers Builders in 1889 and incorporated it in 1907.
Hoggson was in charge of a 1916 remodel of the Mercantile Bank building in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
He wrote articles on bank building as well as on World War I (he worked in France for the American Industrial Commission to France surveying the destruction and determining how the United States. could assist in the rebuilding effort. He was also involved as an architect with the University Club of Albany.
Hoggson was a strong proponent of an international survey of architecture to aid American contractors seeking to work abroad. He authored: Just Behind the Front in France (1918) Banking through the ages (1926), published in New York by Dodd, Mead & Company, The Gradual Development of State Banking (1927) and Epochs in American Banking (1929).
He was a consultant to Seattle"s Washington Park Arboretum.
The University of Washington Libraries Department of Special Collections maintains the Noble Foster Hoggson Papers, 1916-1941. Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle, Washington - 1932-1933 (3303)
Claude Bekins House, The Highlands, Seattle, Washington - 1966-1969 (8607)
Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington - 1954-1985 (3318)
Maurice Dunn House, The Highlands, Seattle, Washington - 1949 (8606)
Garrett House, The Highlands, Seattle, Washington - 1936 (14757)
Hoggson House, The Highlands, Seattle, Washington - 1966 (7667)
National Park Service, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington - (7606)
United States Government, Department of the Interior, National Park Service (Net Promoter Score), Lassen Volcanic National Park, Mineral, California - (8603)
United States Navy (United States Navy), Naval Air Station, Housing Project, Sand Point, Seattle, Washington - 1943 (8605)
University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, Washington - 1934-1936 (5408).
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