Raymond Hood

The Tribune Tower in Chicago

News Building, NYC, rendering by Hugh Ferriss

Raymond Mathewson Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) was an early-mid twentieth century architect who worked in the Art Deco style. He was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, educated at Brown University, MIT, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. At the latter institution he met John Mead Howells, with whom Hood later partnered. Hood frequently employed architectural sculptor Rene Paul Chambellan both to create sculpture for his building and to make plasticine models of his projects. He died at age 53 and was interred at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, NY.

Selected works

• Tribune Tower, Chicago, Illinois 1924
• American Radiator Building, also known as the American Standard Building, New York, New York 1924
• Ocean Forest Country Club, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 1926-1927
• New York Daily News Building (the model for Superman's The Daily Planet), New York, New York 1929
• Masonic Temple, Scranton, Pennsylvania 1930
• Rockefeller Center, New York, New York, where Hood was a senior architect on a large design team. 1933-37
• McGraw-Hill Building, New York, New York 1931

References

The unmarked mountain laurel gravesite of Raymond Hood in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

* Walter H. Kilham (1973). Raymond Hood, Architect - Form Through Function in the American Skyscraper. Architectural Book Publishing Co Inc, New York.

• Einar Einarsson Kvaran. Architectural Sculpture of America. unpublished manuscript
• Contemporary American Architects: Raymond M. Hood (1931). Published by Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York. Trade publication featuring a large collection of photographs of Raymond Hood works.