Résumé

Partner, Spoon and Hoggson, Landscape Architects, White Plains, NY, 1928-1930.

Designer, Butler Sturtevant, Landscape Architect, Seattle, WA, 1930-1931.

Principal, Noble Hoggson, Landscape Architect, Seattle, WA, 1932-1970. In 1939, his office was located at 1118 4th Avenue, Room #100. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1939, p. 692.) This had changed to Room #206 by 1943. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1943, p. 530.)

Archives

The University of Washington Libraries Department of Special Collections maintains the Noble Foster Hoggson Papers, 1916-1941.

High School/College

Graduate, Taft School, Watertown, CT, c. 1918. The Taft School was a prestigious college-preparatory boarding school in Watertown.

B. Business Administration, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1922.

M.L.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1927.

Relocation

Born in New York City, Hoggson lived with his family at He resided at 109 East 35th Street in New York in 09/1918.. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Registration State: New York; Registration County: New York; Roll: 1786851; Draft Board: 159, accessed 03/06/2020.) Hoggson spent several years at the Taft School in Watertown, CT, c. 1914-1918, and then attended Yale University in New Haven, CT and Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.

Hoggson worked between 1928-1930 in White Plains, NY, and moved to Seattle, WA, in 1930. He remained in the Pacific Northwest for the rest of his life.

In 1943, Hoggson and his wife resided in a residence at the Highlands, an exclusive tract north of Seattle, now in Shoreline, WA. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1943, p. 530.)

Parents

His father was the interior designer, building contractor, architect, and merchant, Noble F. Hoggson, Sr., (b. 08/27/1865 in New Haven, CT-d. 10/25/1939 at the Yale Club, NY, NY), his mother, Harriet Ella Dewey (born 09/24/1868 in Chicago, IL-d. 08/20/1958 in Seattle, WA), who managed the household. She married Noble Hoggson, Sr., on 10/02/1895. (See Adelbert M. Dewey, et al., Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N, and Dewey Family History, [Westfield, MA: Dewey Publishing Company, 1898], p. 373.) They honeymooned in Europe returning to the US from Hamburg, Germany aboard the Hamburg-Amerika Linie ship Phoenicia on 11/10/1895. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Staatsarchiv Hamburg; Hamburg, Deutschland; Hamburger Passagierlisten; Volume: 373-7 I, VIII A 1 Band 091; Page: 1056; Microfilm No.: K_1753, accessed 03/06/2020.)

He had a younger brother, Donald Hoggson (born c. 1905 in NY).

Hoggson, Sr.'s brother was William J. Hoggson, an architect in Greenwich, CT and in FL. According to his great-granddaughter, Sherry Wheat, Noble, Sr., and William started a firm together, Hoggson Brothers, in New York, NY. This firm had an office on 5th Avenue. In 1907, the Hoggson Brothers also maintained a "contracting design" office in Springfield, MA, at 31 Elm Street. Both Noble and William resided in New York at the time. (See Springfield, Massachusetts, City Directory, 1907, p. 292.) Noble Hoggson, Sr., was listed as a "decorator" in the New York, New York, City Directory, 1892, (p. 655) and the New York, New York, City Directory, 1911, (p. 669), and it is possible that he went on purchasing trips to Europe and other places to gather decorative objects for resale. William also had a realty business,the Hatasatah Realty Company, by 1916, at which time he lived in Greenwich, CT. (See New York, New York, City Directory, 1916, p. 833.)

His family had the financial resources to travel extensively. Noble Hoggson, Sr., took a trip to Bermuda in 1907 and another to survey industrial conditions in France beginning on 08/26/1916 and returning on 10/29/1916 to NY. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1907; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 0865; Line: 20; Page Number: 122, accessed 03/06/2020.) Noble, Jr., accompanied his parents (and brother Donald) on European trips in 1908 and 1911. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1908; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 1153; Line: 24; Page Number: 63, accessed 03/06/2020 and Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1911; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 1742; Line: 26; Page Number: 140, accessed 03/06/2020.) Noble, Jr., also accompanied his parents on a European journey arriving home to New York from Rotterdam on 0925/1925. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1925; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 3726; Line: 7; Page Number: 143, accessed 03/06/2020.)

One or both of his parents took European vacations during 1921,1928, 1929 and 1936 and made excursions to Hawaii in 1923 and Puerto Rico in 1924 and 1927, for example. During the last trip they also saw the US Virgin Islands. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1921; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 3020; Line: 6; Page Number: 97, accessed 03/06/2020. Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1928; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 4284; Line: 12; Page Number: 109, accessed 03/06/2020, Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1929; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 4539; Line: 8; Page Number: 86, accessed 03/06/2020, See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1936; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 5800; Line: 15; Page Number: 59, accessed 03/06/2020, Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Honolulu, Hawaii, compiled 02/13/1900 - 12/30/1953; National Archives Microfilm Publication: A3422; Roll: 071; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: RG 85, accessed 03/06/2020, See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1924; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 3581; Line: 22; Page Number: 98, accessed 03/06/2020 and See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1927; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 4055; Line: 1; Page Number: 248, accessed 03/06/2020.)

Spouse

He wed Janet Aurelia Henry Hoggson (1906-1977) in 1934.

Biographical Notes

His World War I draft registration form listed Noble Hoggson as being tall in height and slender of build, with gray blue eyes and brown hair.

Hoggson wrote a biography of the railroad tycoon, Horace Chapin Henry, published in 1960.

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