Charles C. Haight

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Charles Coolidge Haight (1841February 9, 1917) was an American architect who practiced in New York City. A number of his buildings survive including at Yale University[1] and Trinity College (Hartford, CT). He also designed most of the campus of the Episcopal General Theological Seminary in Chelsea Square, New York. The original brick buildings he designed for Columbia College, at the college's former location on Madison Avenue, no longer stand.

Haight's contributions to both Yale and the Episcopal Seminary remain significant to this day, although at Yale, James Gamble Rogers is more often associated with Yale's collegiate- or neo-gothic style. Haight's architectural drawings and photographs are held in the Dept. of Drawings and Archives at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in New York City.

[edit] Selected Works

Buildings at Yale University [2]

Buildings in New York City

New York Cancer Hospital (modeled after a French Renaissance château at Le Lude, Sarthe), St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church [6], the Havemeyer House, the Second Field Artillery Armory (Bronx), the Garrison Chapel of St. Cornelius on Governor's Island, and the General Theological Seminary[7]

  • 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
  • General Theological Seminary, 1884-1904
  • Henry Osborne Havemeyer House, One East 66th Street, 1889, Demolished
  • Sheltering Arms, 1869
  • Trinity Parish clergy house, 1887

Buildings in Hartford, CT

The Keney Memorial Clock Tower [8][9]