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William Augustus Hazel

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William Augustus Hazel was born on September 12, 1854, in Wilmington, North Carolina, to free Black parents Margaret Ann Kellogg and Benjamin Gilette Hazel. His father had apprenticed with carpenter William Kellogg, another free Black person who later became his father-in law. After the marriage, the
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In the spring of 1887, he was denied accommodation at two hotels (the Clarendon Hotel and Astoria Hotel) in Saint Paul based on his race; so he sued them based on the Minnesota Civil Rights Act of 1885. He won the high profiled lawsuit, which brought him more attention from the Black community. In
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neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. He was married in 1882 to Rosa Elizabeth Grosvenor Hazard at the Mathewson Street Methodist Church in Providence, Rhode Island. Hazel continued apprenticeship under architect Charles Dexter Gambrill, formerly of the firm of
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on Saint Peter's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota; the records were not kept but it is known he worked specifically on the architectural design. In 1895, he had his first stained glass commission for a Catholic church newly built in
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of New York, which caused a local stir because was uncommon to see Black artists and designers in that city during that time period. He was invited to speak at local stained glass events in Minnesota. The family moved to 1122 Raymond Avenue in the
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to join his family. Hazel died of a heart attack on February 13, 1929, and was buried in Cambridge Family Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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In the summer of 1919, following the departure of the Howard University's School of Applied Arts and Mechanics department dean
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1899, St. Paul's AME Church, 6th and Mason Streets, Springfield, Illinois; stained glass windows only (destroyed in a fire)
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1888, St. Peter's AME Church, 22nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues South, St. Paul, Minnesota (demolished)
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School of Architecture in 1919. He is considered an important figure in the architectural history of the
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The Crisis of the African-American Architect: Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power
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Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington
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1895, Austin Catholic Church, Austin, Minnesota; stained glass windows only (demolished)
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Architect, stained glass artist, educator, academic administrator, civil rights activist
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1881, Hazel was elected as the secretary for the Civil Rights Committee in Minnesota.
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in Nashville, for his drawings and stained glass window depicting Jesus Christ.
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1921, Dining Hall, Howard University campus, Washington, D.C. (demolished)
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In 1909, he joined the faculty in the mechanical industries department at
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In January 1887, Hazel arrived in Saint Paul, Minnesota as a salesman for
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The Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association and Rev.
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John Lafarge and the Limits of Catholic Interracialism, 1911–1963
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African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945
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African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865–1945
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Wilson, Dreck Spurlock (March 2004). "William Augustus Hazel".
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Encyclopedia of African American Business [2 volumes]
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Hazel's profile was included in the biographical dictionary
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In 1924, Hazel moved to 1724 Christian Street in south
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(demolished) 7: 682:People from Cambridge, Massachusetts 482: 480: 426: 424: 246:commissioned Hazel to restore the 14: 514:Southern, David W. (1996-07-01). 135:In 1872, Hazel apprenticed under 107:; and was one of the first Black 697:20th-century American architects 692:19th-century American architects 647:19th-century American educators 493:. NewSouth Books. p. 256. 407:. Routledge. pp. 273–278. 296:1921, Home Economics Building, 209:" featuring a bust of General 111:artists in the United States. 16:American architect (1854–1929) 1: 224:(now Tuskegee University) in 598:Mitchell, Melvin L. (2003). 571:Smith, Jessie (2017-11-27). 465:Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder 431:Ashmore, L.D. 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Wilmington, North Carolina
Howard University
Twin Cities
Minnesota
stained glass
American Civil War
Cambridge, Massachusetts
wheelright
John La Farge
Trinity Church
Samuel J. F. Thayer
College Hill
Henry Hobson Richardson
Hampton Institute
Tiffany and Company
Saint Anthony Park
Francis Jefferson Roberson
Austin, Minnesota
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
Elijah P. Lovejoy
Grand Army
Ulysses S. Grant
Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee, Alabama
Albert Cassell
William Jefferson Decatur
Francis Grimke
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

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