Résumé

Partner, Hamilton, [Marvin E.] Goody and [John W.] Clancy, Architects, Boston, MA;

Teaching

Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Architecture, Cambridge, MA, c. 1955-1959.

High School/College

Graduate, Columbia High School, Maplewood, NJ, 1941.

B.S., Architecture, University of Michigan (U of M), Ann Arbor, MI, 1949; M.S., Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1950.

Professional Awards

Richard W. Hamilton came in second in the voting for the George G. Booth Traveling Fellowship from the University of Michigan in 1949-1950. (See University of Michigan Official Publication The President's Report for 1949-1950, [Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 1951], p. 122.)

Relocation

Hamilton graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ, in 1941. He spent one year at the University of Michigan (U of M), Ann Arbor, MI, in 1942-1943, before enlisting in the US Army in 1943. He returned for wartime service to attend school at U of M from 1947-1949. Following graduation from the U of M, he entered the graduate architecture program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), were he remained for the period 1950-1951.

He taught at MIT in Cambridge after he graduated. He passed away at an early age in 1959.

Spouse

Hamilton married Patricia Campbell (1924-2015) in 1945. They remained married until Richard's early death in 1959. According to her obituary, she had been "...a member of the Unitarian congregation in Concord, [and] was active as a teacher, Mariner Scout leader, and secretary of the Concord Visiting Nurse's Association and a member of the Concord Symphony Orchestra." (See Island Funeral Home & Crematory, "Patricia C. Atwood," accessed 04/11/2017.) She attended Wellesley College.

About 13 years after Richard's death, she married Clayton H. Atwood, and moved to Hilton Head, SC, where she remained for the rest of her life.

Children

Patricia and Richard had two sons: Richard W. Hamilton and Stephen C. Hamilton.

• Concord, MA (Architect's Death)
  Concord, MA

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