Wyatt C. Hedrick

Wyatt Cephus Hedrick was born December 17, 1888, in Chatham, Virginia, to Washington Henry and Emma Cephas (Williams) Hedrick. He matriculated at Roanoke College, gaining his bachelor's degree in 1909. He earned a degree in engineering the next year from Washington and Lee University.{{cite web|series=Handbook of Texas Online|first=Christopher |last=Long |title=HEDRICK, WYATT CEPHAS|access-date=November 11, 2018|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhe51|date=March 7, 2017|publisher=Texas State Historical Association}}

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In 1910, Hedrick started a career in engineering, working briefly for Lane Brothers in his home state. Later that year he accepted a position at the Dallas office of Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation. He was a construction engineer for about three years.

In 1914, Hedrick started his own engineering firm in Fort Worth under the name of Wyatt C. Hedrick Construction Company.Liles (2008), p. 8.

Hedrick was accepted into the partnership of Sanguinet & Staats in 1921, an architecture firm based in Fort Worth which specialized in skyscrapers.

After a year, Hedrick began his work as an architect in Fort Worth, Texas, and three years later opened his own office. He was responsible for many of the tallest buildings in Fort Worth, and several of his works are included on the National Register of Historic Places. Fort Worth's first Art Moderne skyscraper, the Worth Theatre (1927), was designed by Hedrick while partnered with Sanguinet & Staats.{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Judith Singer|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18556286|title=Cowtown Moderne: Art Deco Architecture of Fort Worth, Texas|date=1988|publisher=Texas A & M University Press|isbn=0-89096-313-4|edition=1st|location=College Station|pages=21–22|oclc=18556286}}

Hedrick worked mainly in a stripped-down classical style. With his extensive university and government work, at one time his firm was the third-largest in the United States.

Hedrick is also known for his eight Texas courthouses, all of which are still standing. They include: Austin County, Brazoria County, Coke County, Coleman County, Comanche, County, Kent County, Motley County, and Yoakum County.

In 1918 he married Pauline Stripling. In 1925, he married Mildred Sterling, and in 1931 his father-in-law, Ross S. Sterling, became governor of Texas.

A list of works by Hedrick in chronological order, with shared attribution where applicable:

• One or more works in Wharton County Courthouse Historic Commercial District, Roughly bounded by the alley N of Milam St., Rusk St., Elm St. and Richmond St. Wharton, TX, NRHP-listed

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• {{cite book|last=Henry|first=Jay C.|title=Architecture in Texas: 1895{{endash}}1945|publisher=University of Texas Press|location=Austin|year=1993}}
• {{cite book|title=The Courthouses of Texas|year=2007|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|location=College Station|last1=Kelsey|first1=Mavis P. Sr.|last2=Dyal|first2=Donald H.|edition=Second|isbn=978-1-58544-549-3}}
• {{cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6084/m2/1/high_res_d/thesis.pdf|last=Liles|first=Deborah M.|title=Wyatt Cephas Hedrick: Builder of Cities|publisher=University of North Texas|year=2008}} Master's thesis.

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• [http://texasescapes.com/Texas_architecture/TexasCourthouses.htm Texas Courthouses on Texas Escapes.com]

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Category:1888 births

Category:1964 deaths

Category:Architects from Texas

Category:Roanoke College alumni

Category:Washington and Lee University alumni

Category:People from Chatham, Virginia

Category:Architects from Virginia

Category:20th-century American architects