Hiss and Weekes was a notable architectural firm in New York active from 1899 to 1933, constructing a number of landmarks of Beaux-Arts architecture.

Run by Philip Hiss and H. Hobart Weekes, the firm was known primarily for the hotels and apartment buildings they built in Manhattan. They also built summer residences for wealthy city dwellers on the Gold Coast of Long Island and in Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Berkshire County is a non-governmental county located on the western edge of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the population was 131,219. Its largest city and traditional county seat is Pittsfield...

. H. Hobart Weekes worked for the renowned architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White

McKim, Mead, and White

McKim, Mead & White was a prominent American architectural firm at the turn of the twentieth century and in the history of American architecture. The firm's founding partners were Charles Follen McKim , William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White...

 prior to joining Philip Hiss. H. Hobart Weekes was the father of Hobart G. Weekes, a longtime editor for the New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...

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Works

Their works include:

• Villa Virginia
  Villa Virginia
  Villa Virginia is a historic site on Ice Glen Road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, one of the Berkshire Cottages.Villa Virginia is located at the foot of a hill behind which lies the Ice Glen. In the nineteenth century this was the site of an estate owned by John and Isabella Wyman Winthrop. Under...
  
  , Stockbridge, Massachusetts
  Stockbridge, Massachusetts
  Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,947 at the 2010 census...
  
  
• The Belnord
  The Belnord
  The Belnord is an apartment building on West 86th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.It was designed in 1908 by the noted architectural firm of Hiss and Weekes. It is 13 stories tall and features Italian Renaissance style decorative elements...
  
   Apartments, New York City
  New York City
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   (1908)
• The Gotham Hotel, now The Peninsula Hotel
  The Peninsula New York
  The Peninsula New York is a luxury hotel located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 55th Street. The hotel is part of the The Peninsula Hotel Group who are based in Hong Kong. The Hotel was bought in 1988 by the Peninsula group for a price of $127 million...
  
  , New York City
  New York City
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• Knollwood estate
  Knollwood estate
  The Knollwood estate was a Gold Coast era castle-esque house and estate. Located in Muttontown, New York, USA, its ruins are now part of the Muttontown Preserve....
  
  , Muttontown, New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
  
• Byers Hall, Silliman College
  Silliman College
  Silliman 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  , New Haven, Connecticut
  New Haven, Connecticut
  New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...