Stephen Decatur Hatch (1839–1894)^[2] was a prominent late-19th centuryarchitect who was responsible for a number of historically or architecturally significant buildings inManhattan,New York City and elsewhere. He primarily designed commercial buildings.^[3]

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Stephen Hatch was born inSwanton,Vermont.^[4] His father was an inventor.^[3]

Hatch relocated to New York City, finding employment as aconstruction inspector.^[3] He joined the busy architectural firm ofJohn B. Snook in 1860 as adraftsman.^[4]

Hatch left the Snook firm around 1864 to start his own practice. He became the architect of theU.S. War Department, responsible for construction of military posts in New York.^[3] His practice began to flourish in 1868.^[4]

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Hatch died in 1894, during the construction of an extension to the headquarters building of theNew York Life Insurance Company.

Manhattan

• 213-215 Water Street – warehouse, built 1868 for A.A. Thompson & Co., now part ofSouth Street Seaport Museum,^[5] within theSouth Street Seaport Historic District
• 118 East 18th Street – built 1868^[6]
• Gilsey House Hotel – 1200 Broadway, built 1869–1871, converted to residential use 1980, aNew York City landmark (1979)^[1]
• 836-838 Broadway – built 1876-1877^[7]
• Robbins & Appleton Building – manufacturing, built 1879–1880, a New York City landmark (1979)^[8]
• Schepp Building – warehouse, 45-53 Hudson Street, built 1880, within theTribeca North Historic District^[9]
• 165 Duane Street – lofts, built 1881, within the Tribeca West Historic District^[10]
• Murray Hill Hotel – Park Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, built 1884, razed 1947^[11]
• U.S. Army Building – also known as 3 New York Plaza, Water & Whitehall Streets, offices, built 1886^[12]
• 168 Duane Street – warehouse, built 1886–1887, within the Tribeca West Historic District,^[9]Dutch Revival style ^[13]
• Manhattan Savings Institution^[14] – also known as Bleecker Tower,^[15] 644 Broadway, built 1889–1891, within theNoHo Historic District ^[16]
• Fleming Smith Warehouse – 451-453 Washington Street, built 1891–1892, a New York City landmark (1978)^[17]
• Roosevelt Building – lofts, 839-841 Broadway, built 1893^[18]
• Former New York Life Insurance Company Building – also known as the Clock Tower Building, offices, 346 Broadway, built 1894–1895, completed byMcKim, Mead & White, a New York City landmark (1987)^[19] and on theNational Register of Historic Places (1982)
• United States Custom House (now the Federal Hall National Memorial) and theAmerican Surety Building, both located in lower Manhattan.

Elsewhere

• Methodist Episcopal Church –Madison, New Jersey, built 1870, on the National Register of Historic Places (2008)
• Jubilee Hall –Fisk University,Nashville, Tennessee, built 1876, aNational Historic Landmark (1974)
• Laclede Building –St. Louis, Missouri, built 1888^[20]
• Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Rooms 231 & 232 –Washington, D.C., office suite for theU.S. Secretary of War, completed March 1888^[2]
• Designed State Capitol building in Providence, Rhode Island.

• New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission;Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.).Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1.
• White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000).AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press.ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5.

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