Noble Foster Hoggson


Noble Foster Hoggson Sr. was a builder, architect, and author in the United States. He specialized in building and planning banks in New York City. He partnered with his brother William J. Hoggson to establish Hoggson Brothers. His son, Noble Foster Hoggson Jr., was a prominent landscape architect.
Hoggson was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Samuel J. Hoggson and Luey Hoggson. His father was from Glasgow, Scotland and was an engraver and die maker.
Hoggson graduated from Yale in 1888 and then continued his studies of architecture in Europe. Hoggson worked at Charles Wellford Leavitt's firm. He established Hoggson Brothers Builders in 1889 and incorporated it in 1907. His brother was the architect William J. Hoggson, apart from their partnership, worked in Greenwich, Connecticut and Florida.
Hoggson was in charge of a 1916 remodel of the Mercantile Bank building in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He wrote articles on bank building as well as on World War I
Banking through the ages, published in New York by Dodd, Mead & Company, The Gradual Development of State Banking and Epochs in American Banking.
His son was Noble Foster Hoggson Jr., a landscape architect who also authored a biography of railroad tycoon Horace Chapin Henry. He was a consultant to Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum. The University of Washington Libraries Department of Special Collections maintains the Noble Foster Hoggson Papers, 1916–1941.

Hoggson Jr.'s landscape architecture