Hugh M. Thompson was an American architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

. He was active in Bend, Oregon

Bend, Oregon

Bend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, and the principal city of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, and, despite its modest size, is the de facto metropolis of the region, owing to the low population...

 during the early 20th Century. Thompson designed the Capitol Theater (Salem, Oregon)

Capitol Theater (Salem, Oregon)

The Capitol Theater was located at 542 State Street in Salem, Oregon, United States. It was built in the 1920s for vaudeville. During its heyday, it housed a Wurlitzer pipe organ, which is now in private ownership in Washington.- Decline and demolition :...

, New Redmond Hotel

New Redmond Hotel

The New Redmond Hotel is a historic commercial hotel in Redmond, Oregon, United States. The hotel was built in 1928 after the original Redmond Hotel, was destroyed in a fire. It is a three-story Georgian-style brick masonry building located on 6th Street in downtown Redmond...

, Bend High School

Bend High School

Bend Senior High School is the oldest high school located in Bend, Oregon, United States. The school opened in 1904, but did not graduate its first class of seniors until 1909. Old Bend High School, the original building, was located downtown on Bond Street, where the Bend-La Pine School District...

, Redmond Union High School, the Butch Stover House (a Tudor style abode and an addition to the Pilot Butte Inn. In partnership with Lee Arden Thomas

Lee Arden Thomas

Lee Arden Thomas was an architect in Bend and Portland, Oregon, United States. He graduated in 1907 from Oregon Agricultural College . He completed many projects in Bend, often partenering with local architect Hugh Thompson...

, he designed the O.C. Henkle Building, C.J. Breir Store, St. Francis School, the 1923 Kenwood School addition, the Hudson & Sather Building, the Central Oregon Bank and the Vandevert & Whitington Garage. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, #191.

Edward Brosterhous, one of 49 Bend residents who signed its petition for incorporation in 1904 and one of the three people who incorporated the North Unit Irrigation Company, consulted on electrical and heating matters for the Episcopal Church in Bend and built St. Francis of Assisi Church (Bend, Oregon) and School, Old Bend High School

Old Bend High School

The Old Bend High School is a historic school building in Bend, Oregon, in the United States. Opened in 1925, the building served as a public high school for 31 years and a junior high school for an additional 22 years before being transitioned in 1979 into its current role as the administrative...

, Kenwood School and other buildings.

Thompson was quoted as explaining building activity in the early 1920s to an increase in payrolls at the areas sawmills and a growing population. Commercial buildings under construction were already leased, while water and telephone connections doubled from 1920 to 1924.

Projects

• Episopal Church (Bend, Oregon) Listed on the National Register of Historic Places (Supervising architect)
• Bend Amateur Athletic Club (addition)
• Ruth and B.A. Stover House
• Pine Tavern (Bend, Oregon)
• R.W. Sawyer House
• Bend High School
  Bend High School
  Bend Senior High School is the oldest high school located in Bend, Oregon, United States. The school opened in 1904, but did not graduate its first class of seniors until 1909. Old Bend High School, the original building, was located downtown on Bond Street, where the Bend-La Pine School District...