Robert Wakeman Hill, Dean of Waterbury Architects, was official state architect under Governors Bigelow, Waller, Harrison and Lounsbury. The son of Samuel and Polly Brackett Hill, he received his early education in Waterbury public schools.
A trained carpenter, he studied architectural drawing at the Young Men's Institute in New Haven. During the 1850s, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he went into business with Albert C. Nash, who, like Hill, had worked for noted architect, Henry Austin.
Robert Hill's architectural designs are typically a blend of Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles. In Waterbury, Hill's works includes the Rectory Building (1886) on Church Street, Riverside Cemetery's Hall Memorial Chapel (1885), the Griggs Building on Bank Street (1884), numerous schools including the Welton School (1883) and St. Margaret's School (1865) on Grove Street.
He also designed several factory buildings, a state armory building at Phoenix and Abbott Avenues and the original City Hall of 1889 across from the Green which burned down in 1912.
Other works include but are not limited to the Thomaston Opera House and City Hall (1885), the Bronson B. Tuttle House (1881) in Naugatuck, the New Britain Armory (1886) and the Litchfield County Courthouse (1889), now the Litchfield Judicial District Courthouse.
Hill designed the Civil War monument in Woodbury (1871) and had a strong influence on architects who got their start under his guidance, including Joseph Jackson and Wilfred Griggs.
Robert Wakeman Hill, Dean of Waterbury Architects, was official state architect under Governors Bigelow, Waller, Harrison and Lounsbury. The son of Samuel and Polly Brackett Hill, he received his early education in Waterbury public schools.
A trained carpenter, he studied architectural drawing at the Young Men's Institute in New Haven. During the 1850s, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he went into business with Albert C. Nash, who, like Hill, had worked for noted architect, Henry Austin.
Robert Hill's architectural designs are typically a blend of Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles. In Waterbury, Hill's works includes the Rectory Building (1886) on Church Street, Riverside Cemetery's Hall Memorial Chapel (1885), the Griggs Building on Bank Street (1884), numerous schools including the Welton School (1883) and St. Margaret's School (1865) on Grove Street.
He also designed several factory buildings, a state armory building at Phoenix and Abbott Avenues and the original City Hall of 1889 across from the Green which burned down in 1912.
Other works include but are not limited to the Thomaston Opera House and City Hall (1885), the Bronson B. Tuttle House (1881) in Naugatuck, the New Britain Armory (1886) and the Litchfield County Courthouse (1889), now the Litchfield Judicial District Courthouse.
Hill designed the Civil War monument in Woodbury (1871) and had a strong influence on architects who got their start under his guidance, including Joseph Jackson and Wilfred Griggs.
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