Hugo Kafka
Hugo Kafka, AIA, (May, 1843 –April 1915) was a Czech-American architect and founding associate of the predecessor firm of Alfred B. Mullett & Sons, as well as William Schickel & Company; he ran his own firm, Hugo Kafka in the early twentieth century, later renamed Hugo Kafka & Sons.
Hugo Kafka

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- Name
- Hugo Kafka
- Born
- 1843
- Birthplace
- Austrian Empire
- Died
- 1915
- Place of death
- New Rochelle, New York, United States
- Known for
- Architect
- Nationality
- United States
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Hugo Kafka, AIA, (May, 1843 –April 1915) was a Czech-American architect and founding associate of the predecessor firm of Alfred B. Mullett & Sons, as well as William Schickel & Company; he ran his own firm, Hugo Kafka in the early twentieth century, later renamed Hugo Kafka & Sons.
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• Name — Hugo Kafka • Born — 1843 • Birthplace — Austrian Empire • Died — 1915 • Place of death — New Rochelle, New York, United States • Known for — Architect
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Kafka was born in 1843 in the Austrian Empire. He graduated from the Polytechnikum in Zurich, Switzerland studying under Gottfried Semper. He came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1874 to work with Hermann Schwartzmann, architect-in-chief for the buildings of the Centennial Exposition, and practiced in New York City from 1877 to 1903." He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1876 and a founding associate of the predecessor firm of Alfred B. Mullett & Sons, with Alfred B. Mullett and William G. Steinmetz in 1882. In 1885 along with J. William Schickel (1850–1907) and Isaac E. Ditmars (1850–1934), he was a founding associate of William Schickel & Company, which later became Schickel & Ditmars. He died April 28, 1913, in New Rochelle, New York. Working for himself in the twentieth century, his firm's address was at 99 Nassau Street; the firm's name was Hugo Kafka, and Hugo Kafka & Sons after 1905 at 34 W 26th Street. One of his finest house designs is the Leonard and Annie Wiederer House (1887–1888), 387 St. Paul's Avenue (formerly Mud Lane), Staten Island, a three-story 4500 sqft Queen Anne-style mansion of 24-room, including eight bedrooms, two kitchens and six fireplaces, each of a different design. It was built by the German-born beer baron named George Bechtel as a bridal gift to his daughter Annie on her marriage to Leonard Wiederer. He died April 28, 1915, aged 70, at his home at 49 Washington Avenue, New Rochelle, New York.
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• Leonard and Annie Wiederer House (1887–1888), 387 St. Paul's Avenue, Staten Island • 153-155 West 43rd Street (1903), a 12-story brick and stone hotel, built for the estate of Ogden Goelet for $210,000 • West 176th Street, west of Amsterdam Avenue (1905), four five-story brick and stone tenements built for Winslow Realty Co. for $160,000. • Mill • "The Summersby" (1894), 342-344 West 56th Street, 7-story brick and limestone flats
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22nd Street (back) side of 32-46 West 23rd Street between Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) in the Flatiron District, Manhattan, New York City, was built as the Stern Brothers' Dry Goods Store, which moved to this location from Sixth Avenue. The building was constructed in five stages: 1878: 32-36 West 23rd Street (front, not seen here), designed by Henry Fernbach 1878: 23
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28-30 West 23rd Street (on the left) between Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1910-11 and designed by Maynicke Franke in neo-Renaissance style as an annex to the Stern Brothers' Dry Goods Store next door (part of which is seen on the right). The 12-story building is located within the Ladies' Mile Historic
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Hugo Kafka was born in Austria–Hungary.
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Hugo Kafka died in New Rochelle.
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- 1.Census 1900. Ancestry.com.
- 2.ObituariesNY Times. April 30, 1915.
- 3.archINFORM arch 73580
- 4.http://www.metrohistory.com/dbpages/NBresults.lasso |Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," 5 Feb 2010
- 5.Travels of St. Paul's Avenue, Staten Island
- 6.Rosenblum, Constance. "HABITATS: For a Family, Elaborate Elbow Room." New York Times June 26, 2009.
- 7.Gray, Christopher. STREETSCAPES: The Loth Silk Factory; A Ghost Coming to Life In Washington Heights. The New York Times. August 6, 1989.
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