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Robert Frost Daggett
Daggett, Naegele & Daggett
Daggett, Naegele & Associates

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| founders = Robert Platt Daggett {{post-nominals|list=FAIA}}

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| founded = 1868

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R. P. Daggett & Company was an American architectural firm based in Indianapolis, owned by three successive generations of one family. It was established in 1868 as a sole proprietorship by architect Robert Platt Daggett {{post-nominals|list=FAIA}} (January 13, 1837 – November 5, 1915) and expanded to a partnership in 1880 to include James B. Lizius {{post-nominals|list=FAIA}} (May 30, 1851 – July 23, 1911). Daggett's son, Robert Frost Daggett {{post-nominals|list=FAIA}} (March 13, 1875 – September 6, 1955), became a partner in 1901. After the elder Daggett's death the younger continued the firm under his own name. He formed a new partnership with his son and a third associate in 1948, who took over the firm

Robert Frost Daggett Jr. {{post-nominals|list=AIA}} (October 3, 1912 – November 8, 1985)

Daggett & Roth dissolved January 1, 1875."Dissolution Notice," Indianapolis News, December 31, 1874, 4.

R. P. Daggett & Company formed in 1880.

In 1901 the younger Daggett was made a partner."Notice," Indianapolis News, July 23, 1901, 6.

R. P. Daggetts buy land in Escalon in 1910, directories show them there from 1911."Documents Recorded," Stockton Evening Mail, October 27, 1910, 5,

In 1948 Daggett formed the partnership of Robert Frost Daggett & Associates with F. Harold Naegele, an employee since 1931, and his son, Robert Frost Daggett Jr. Robert Frost Jr. had graduated from Yale University in 1936 with a BFA and joined the firm in 1946. The partnership was incorporated as Daggett, Naegele & Daggett Inc. in 1951."Daggett, Robert Frost, Jr." in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1956): 122."Naegele, F(rederich) Harold" in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1956): 399. Robert Frost Daggett died in 1955, and in 1961 the firm was renamed Daggett, Naegele & Associates Inc."Daggett, Robert Frost, Jr." in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1970): 197-198. By 1970, the principals of the firm also included Kenneth H. Mendenhall Jr. and Robert A. Blakeslee."Daggett, Naegele & Assocs, Inc." in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1970): 198. Daggett retired in 1977 and the firm was dissolved.

The firm's last major project prior to its dissolution was the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, completed in 1976."'Hall of Fame' tells it all," Journal and Courier, May 26, 1977, 4.