Charles C. Haight
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United States
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architect who practiced in New York City
New York City
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. A number of his buildings survive including at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
http://eng.archinform.net/arch/8921.htm and Trinity College
Trinity College (Connecticut)
Trinity College is a private, liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut after Yale University. The college enrolls 2,300 students and has been coeducational since 1969. Trinity offers 38 majors and 26 minors, and has...
(Hartford, CT). He also designed most of the campus of the Episcopal General Theological Seminary
General Theological Seminary
The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church is a seminary of the Episcopal Church in the United States and is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York....
in Chelsea Square, New York. The original brick buildings he designed for Columbia College
Columbia College of Columbia University
Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college at Columbia University, situated on the university's main campus in Morningside Heights in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1754 by the Church of England as King's College, receiving a Royal Charter from King George II...
, at the college's former location on Madison Avenue, no longer survive.
Haight's contributions to both Yale and the Episcopal Seminary remain significant to this day, although at Yale, James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for his academic commissions at Yale University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, and elsewhere....
is more often associated with Yale's collegiate- or neo-gothic style. Haight's architectural drawing
Architectural drawing
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s and photographs are held in the Dept. of Drawings and Archives at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is one of twenty-five libraries in the Columbia University Library System and is located in Avery Hall on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University in the City of New York. It is the largest architecture library in the world...
at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in New York City.
Selected works
Buildings at Yale UniversityYale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9404E1DF163BF930A25755C0A964948260
- Portions of Silliman CollegeSilliman CollegeSilliman College is a residential college at Yale University. It opened in September 1940 as the last of the original ten residential colleges, and includes buildings that were constructed as early as 1901...
, originally dormitories for Sheffield Scientific SchoolSheffield Scientific SchoolSheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut for instruction in science and engineering. Originally named the Yale Scientific School, it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield, the railroad executive. The school was... - Buildings on Old CampusOld CampusThe Old Campus is a complex of buildings at Yale University on the block at the northwest end of the green in New Haven, Connecticut, consisting of dormitories, classrooms, chapels and offices...
including Vanderbilt Hall http://www.hsnparch.com/projects/yale/vanderbilt/vanderEXT1.htm, Phelps Hall http://mssa.library.yale.edu/madid/showzoom.php?id=ru&ruid=151&pg=1&imgNum=4912, and Linsly (part of Linsly-Chittenden Hall) - Mason Laboratory
- Leet Oliver Memorial Hall
- Sloane Physics Laboratory
- Osborn Memorial Laboratories, 1913, 165 Prospect St, New Haven, CT. http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:kKyXOmbVRzAJ:www.facilities.yale.edu/Campus/Building1.asp%3FlstBldg%3D1800+charles+haight+yale&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8
Buildings in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- New York Cancer HospitalNew York Cancer HospitalThe New York Cancer Hospital in New York City was a cancer treatment and research institution founded in 1884 . The hospital was located at 455 Central Park West between 105th St and 106th St...
(modeled after a French Renaissance château at Le Lude, Sarthe), - Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
- Second Field Artillery Armory (Bronx)
- General Theological SeminaryGeneral Theological SeminaryThe General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church is a seminary of the Episcopal Church in the United States and is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York....
, 1884–1904 - Brooks Brothers Building 932-938 Broadway, Demolished
- Hamilton Hall, Columbia University, 1880, Demolished
- Library, Columbia University, 1882; Law School, Columbia University, 1882, School of Mines, Columbia University, 1884, All demolished
- 149-151 Franklin Street, 1885
- 55-57 Morth Moore Street, 1890
- American Music HallAmerican Music HallThe American Music Hall, also known as the American Theater until 1908, was a Broadway venue, on the 42nd street. It was designed by the architect Charles C. Haight, and had a capacity of 2065....
(American Theater), 42nd Street, 1893, Demolished - Henry Osborne Havemeyer House, One East 66th Street, 1889, Demolished
- Sheltering Arms, 1869, Demolished 1945 (today Sheltering Arms Playground)
- Trinity Parish clergy house, 1887
- Chapel of St. Cornelius the Centurion, 1906, on Governors IslandGovernors IslandGovernors Island is a island in Upper New York Bay, approximately one-half mile from the southern tip of Manhattan Island and separated from Brooklyn by Buttermilk Channel. It is legally part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City...
Buildings outside New York City
- "Westwood", now the Bayard Cutting Arboretum State ParkBayard Cutting Arboretum State ParkBayard Cutting Arboretum State Park is located in the hamlet of Great River, Suffolk County, New York, USA. The extensively landscaped garden is in the nature of an estate arboretum, laid out, starting in 1887, for William Bayard Cutting by Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park...
, Great River, long Island
Buildings in Hartford, Connecticut
- St. Anthony HallSt. Anthony HallSt. Anthony Hall, also known as Saint Anthony Hall and The Order of St. Anthony, is a national college literary society also known as the Fraternity of Delta Psi at colleges in the United States of America. St...
, 1913, Trinity College, Hartford, (a commission for Frederick William VanderbiltFrederick William VanderbiltFrederick William Vanderbilt was a member of the Vanderbilt family. He was a director of the New York Central Railroad for 61 years, and also a director of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and of the Chicago and North Western Railroad.-Biography:A son of William Henry Vanderbilt, Frederick...
). - The Keney Memorial Clock Tower