Raymond M Hood

  • American

Raymond Hood (1881-1934), originally from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. At the age of 41 , after a dismally obscure career in New York, he suddenly found himself the winner of the most celebrated architectural competition in the country - for the Chicago Tribune tower - and during his next and last ten years became known as one of New York's most brilliant architects.

Although both the Tribune and the News buildings are officially designs of the firm of Howells and Hood, in both cases the design is Hood's alone. Much of Hood's subsequent career was tied to Medill family commissions Besides the Tribune tower for Colonel McCormick and the News tower for Captain Patterson, Hood also designed Patterson's house in Ossining, New York, and an Art Deco apartment house (1928) at 3 East 84th Street, commissioned by Patterson.

During his career Hood also designed several houses, several churches, the above-mentioned apartment house, and, during his underemployed days, Mori's Restaurant; he introduced roof-gardens to New York on a large scale at Rockefeller Center; and he produced an extraordinary manifesto for rebuilding Manhattan along the lines of Le Corbusier's Voisin Plan. His fame, however, rests primarily on his five skyscrapers in Chicago and New York: the Tribune tower (1922), the American Radiator Building (1923-24), the Daily News Building (1929-30), the McGraw-Hill Building (1930-31), and the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center, where he was one of the architects of the designing team until his death. - NRHP

Notable Position Organization From To
Principal Hood, Raymond and Howells

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Architect Radio City Music Hall New York City
Architect McGraw-Hill Building New York City
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