Edward Hazlehurst (1853–1915)
was an American architect based in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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. After graduating from the Faires' Classical Institute in Philadelphia, Hazlehurst entered the
University of Pennsylvania
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, Towne Scientific School, in the Class of 1876 but left the college at the close of the first term of his junior year, lured away by work in the offices of such eminent Philadelphia architects as
Theophilus P. Chandler Jr. (1874-1876?) and
Frank Furness
Frank Heyling Furness (November 12, 1839 – June 27, 1912) was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often inordinately scaled ...
(1876-1881). By 1881 he and Samuel Huckel, Jr. had established Hazlehurst & Huckel. A successful residential design firm, Hazlehurst & Huckel endured until 1900, when Huckel received the commission to remodel Grand Central Station in New York City; and the partnership dissolved. Although Huckel returned to Philadelphia in 1901/02, the partners did not reunite; and Hazlehurst pursued an independent career until his death in Nether Providence, PA, in 1915. After his partnership with Huckel was dissolved, Hazlehurst's later career included considerable academic work, among the commissions four buildings at Pennsylvania State College from 1902 to 1915.
Hazlehurst joined the Philadelphia Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects
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in 1875 as a junior member, becoming a full member in 1879. He joined the national AIA in 1881 and in the 1883/84 academic year served as judge of the annual architectural drawing competition held at
Spring Garden Institute
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.
Personal life and family
Edward Hazlehurst, son of John and Elizabeth Dunlap Blithe Hazlehurst was born in Meade County, Kentucky on December 29, 1853. He was baptized on 30 December 1855 at Church of the Mediator (Episcopal), Philadelphia. He married Dolores Lammot, daughter of Daniel and Dolores Lammot, at St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, on 28 November 1883. Hazlehurst died on 2 January 1915 in Nether Providence, Delaware, Pennsylvania
Edward and Dolores Hazlehurst had two children:
*Edward. Born—November 1892 and died 8 November 1892
*Edward. Born 10 Feb 1895 in Philadelphia and died 25 November 1955 in Booton, Morris, NJ
Projects
*
Battery Park Hotel, Asheville, North Carolina
[
* Ag Hill Complex, Penn State University campus, ]State College, Pennsylvania
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*Fourth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia[In the Real Estate Field. Philadelphia Times. 14 June 1902. p. 11.]
References
19th-century American architects
Architects from North Carolina
1853 births
1915 deaths
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