In October 1938 the firm was awarded first prize in a competition to design the master plan for a new campus for Goucher College in Towson, Maryland. They won with a plan incorporating Beaux-Arts and modernist principles. The first building, a dormitory named Mary Fisher Hall (1942), was completed four years later, but further construction was delayed by World War II.[1] After the war they completed additional dormitories and the college's major academic buildings: Van Meter Hall (1949), the Julia Rogers Building (1953) and the Hoffberger Science Building (1954). In 1957 their master plan was revised by Hideo Sasaki; after that point they designed only one new building on the campus, the Haebler Memorial Chapel (1963).[2]
They were architects for one memorial project for the American Battle Monuments Commission, the North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial (1960) in Tunisia. As at Goucher, the plan here synthesised Beaux-Arts and modernist principles. The memorial proper, consisting of a court of honor and a chapel, is designed in the form of a cloister.[3]
They were architects of the poorly-received Uris Hall (1964) for the Columbia Business School. The new building was paid for, and its design overseen, by trustee Percy Uris, a large developer. Its design led Ada Louise Huxtable to write that "Uris Hall, by either design or irony, since it is the gift of one of the city's largest builders, whose insensitivity to architectural standards has been matched only by his commercial success, enshrines the tin-type of speculative construction to Columbia's academic groves." Forty years later the lower section of the building was partially masked by an addition designed by Peter L. Gluck, intended to better relate to the campus context.[4]
In 1953 hired to plan Harpur College, now Binghamton University.[5]
They were architects of the Hall of Fame gallery (1958) of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.[6]
In 1967 the partnership was expanded to include Gillet Lefferts Jr. and William R. Evans and was renamed The Moore & Hutchins Partnership.[7]
Architectural works
edit- 1941 – Hans Peter Luhn house, Creemer Rd, Armonk, New York[8]
- Demolished.
- 1942 – Mary Fisher Hall, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland[1]
- 1947 – Heubeck Hall, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland[9]
- 1949 – Van Meter Hall, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland[9]
- 1950 – Froelicher Hall, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland[10]
- 1953 – Julia Rogers Building, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland[10]
- 1954 – Hoffberger Science Building, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland[10]
- 1955 – Lee Library, Chatham Hall, Chatham, Virginia[11]
- 1956 – Alumnae and Alumni House, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland[2]
- 1958 – East Gym, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York[12]
- 1960 – Fine Arts Building, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York[13]
- 1960 – Library, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York[13]
- 1960 – North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage, Tunisia[3]
- Designed in association with landscape architect Bryan J. Lynch and incorporating Honor, Memory and Recollection, three statues by sculptor Henry Kreis.
- 1960 – University Union, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York[13]
- 1961 – Science I, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York[13]
- 1962 – Massena Public Library, 41 Glen St, Massena, New York[14]
- 1963 – Haebler Memorial Chapel, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland[2]
- 1964 – Uris Hall, Columbia University, New York City[4]
- Partially masked in the 1980s with an addition designed by Peter L. Gluck.
- 1966 – Couper Administration Building, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York[15]
- 1966 – Library Tower, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York[16]
- 1967 – St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School, 619 W 114th St, New York City[17]
- 1968 – Bailey, Barnard, Harvey, Kade, Lord-Saunders, Price and Zechiel Houses, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio[18]
- 1968 – Lecture Hall and Classroom Wing, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York[19]
- 1969 – Science II, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
References
edit- 1 2 Frederic O. Musser, The History of Goucher College, 1930–1985 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990): 29-43.
- 1 2 3 Frederic O. Musser, The History of Goucher College, 1930–1985 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990): 75-84.
- 1 2 American Battle Monuments: A Guide to Military Cemeteries and Monuments Maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission, ed. Elizabeth Nishiura (Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1989): 371-390.
- 1 2 Barry Bergdoll, Mastering McKim's Plan: Columbia's First Century on Morningside Heights (New York: Columbia University: 1997): 109-112 and 138.
- ↑ "N.Y. City architects chosen for preliminary Harpur planning," Binghamton Press, June 24, 1953.
- ↑ "Baseball greats reach home," Binghamton Press, August 3, 1958.
- ↑ "Office notes," Architectural Record 142, no. 1 (July 1967): 69.
- ↑ Daily Item, October 30, 1941.
- 1 2 Frederic O. Musser, The History of Goucher College, 1930–1985 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990): 44-53.
- 1 2 3 Frederic O. Musser, The History of Goucher College, 1930–1985 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990): 67-74.
- ↑ Frances Hallan Hurt, "Chatham Hall's library," Richmond Times Dispatch, June 5, 1955.
- ↑ "Future Harpur College gymnasium," Binghamton Press, August 29, 1955.
- 1 2 3 4 "Harpur design earns honor for architects," Binghamton Press, November 12, 1958.
- ↑ "Board plans building of new library," Post-Standard, January 13, 1961.
- ↑ "Harpur pushes office project," Binghamton Press, April 22, 1965.
- ↑ "Harpur to add 15-story office tower," Binghamton Press, January 12, 1965.
- ↑ Andrew S. Dolkart, Morningside Heights: A History of its Architecture & Development (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998): 327.
- ↑ "Oberlin College to build eight smaller dorms," Cleveland Press, September 20, 1963.
- ↑ "New shapes at Harpur," Binghamton Press, November 5, 1966.