Background
Hatch was born in Swanton, Vermont, the son of an inventor, and moved to New York City, where he found employment as a construction inspector.
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He primarily designed commercial buildings. He joined the busy architectural firm of John B. Snook in 1860 as a draftsman. He left around 1864 to start his own practice, and became the architect of the War Department, responsible for construction of military posts in New New York
His practice began to flourish in 1868.
Hatch died in 1894, during the construction of an extension to the headquarters building of the New York Life Insurance Company.
