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{{Infobox architect

|name = Edward H. Hoyt

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|nationality = American

|birth_date = {{birth date|1868|3|18}}

|birth_place = Ossipee, New Hampshire

|death_date = {{death date and age|1936|3|20|1868|3|18}}

|death_place = Boston

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|awards = Fellow of the American Institute of Architects

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File:Pinkhammemorial.jpg, designed by Haven & Hoyt and completed in 1922.]]

File:Lynn Post Office.jpg in Lynn, Massachusetts, designed by Hoyt and Ripley & LeBoutillier and completed in 1933.]]

Edward H. Hoyt {{post-nominals|list=FAIA}} (March 18, 1868 – March 20, 1936) was an American architect in practice in Boston from 1911 until 1932.

Life and career

Edward Harrison Hoyt was born March 18, 1868 in Ossipee, New Hampshire to Edward Adolphus Hoyt and Harriette (Hanson) Hoyt.https://backbayhouses.org/edward-harrison-hoyt/ He was raised in Boston, where he was educated in the public schools. He worked for architects Peabody & Stearns, Cabot & Chandler and Wheelwright & Haven, where he worked under former city architect Edmund M. Wheelwright. He was later promoted to chief drafter and was closely involved with the firm's major projects, including Jordan Hall (1903) and the Boston Opera House (1909). In 1911, following the collapse of Wheelwright's health, Hoyt became a partner in the firm, which became Wheelwright, Haven & Hoyt, and after his death in 1912 it became Haven & Hoyt."In General" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Architectural_Forum/14VHAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Brickbuilder] 20, no. 5 (May, 1911): 112."Edward H. Hoyt, 1868–1936" in Architecture 73, no. 5 (May, 1936): 20.

Haven & Hoyt built upon several of the specialties developed by Wheelwright. These included bridges, and they consulted on the design of several: the Anderson Memorial Bridge (1915) and the North Beacon Street Bridge (1917) over the Charles River at Boston and the Memorial Bridge (1922) over the Connecticut River at Springfield. They were also responsible for Brown Hall (1928), an addition to Wheelwright & Haven's earlier Jordan Hall (1903). They also developed their own specialty for hospital design. Haven retired in 1931 and Hoyt continued alone. His major work of the 1930s was the Thomas P. Costin Jr. Post Office Building (1933) in Lynn, designed in association with Ripley & LeBoutillier. Due to his declining health Hoyt retired from practice circa 1932 prior to the completion of this last project."E. H. Hoyt's Funeral Set For Tomorrow, Boston Globe, March 22, 1936, A43.

Hoyt was a charter member of the Boston Architectural Club. He served as its presidents from 1899 to 1901 and also served in several leadership roles in the Boston Society of Architects. Hoyt joined the American Institute of Architects in 1913 and was elected a Fellow in 1931."[https://aiahistoricaldirectory.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHDAA/pages/35718225/ahd1020836 Edward H. Hoyt]," AIA Historical Directory of American Architects, no date. Accessed March 31, 2023. From 1929 to 1932 he was a member of the Boston City Planning Board.Boston city documents

Personal life and death

Hoyt was married in 1906 to Eleanor Agnes Barrett in Watertown, Massachusetts. They had three children: Barrett, Natalie and Harrison. In 1929 Barrett Hoyt, then a student at Harvard University, was the first patient to be successfully treated by Philip Drinker's iron lung."Barrett Hoyt," Boston Globe, September 19, 1972, 41."Barrett Hoyt," Boston Globe, September 19, 1972, 41.John T. Bethell, [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Harvard_Observed/hxpvsfxjfMAC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Harvard Observed: An illustrated history of the University in the twentieth century] (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998): 102. Hoyt died March 20, 1936 at his home in Brighton at the age of 68.

Architectural works

Published works

  • Edward H. Hoyt, "Hospital Construction and Costs" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Architectural_Forum/eCoNAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Architectural Forum] 37, no. 6 (December, 1922): 303–304.

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References

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  • https://usmodernist.org/AM/AM-1936-05.pdf
  • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/240625902/edward-harrison-hoyt