Charles M. Hart (1887-1968) was a noted architect. He received his degree in architecture from Pratt in 1906. Hart lived at 160 West Merrick Road on what is now the adult wing of the Freeport Memorial Library. He married Adiene Bergen, the granddaughter of George W. Bergen, a wealthy businessman from Brooklyn who owned a great deal of real estate in Freeport.
Hart’s younger brother, Eprich Stanly Hart, went to Freeport High School. On June 5, 1918, E. Stanly Hart died in a plane crash while serving as a pilot with the Royal Air Force. Charles M. Hart’s nephew, who lived on the Bergen estate (now the site of Elks Plaza), died the same year during pilot training for World War I. His nephew was William Clinton Story, the namesake for the Freeport American Legion. Charles M. Hart designed the Freeport Memorial Library without charge. In 1924, the Library was dedicated to all Freeporters who died during wartime including his bother and nephew.
Hart died in 1968 and is buried in Greenfield Cemetery, Uniondale, NY.
Charles M. Hart
Freeport Memorial Library 1924, Hart's house is on the left
Charles M. Hart built many important municipal buildings and private residents. Some of his buildings include:
·
Columbus
Avenue School in Freeport (1915)
·
Colgate
Inn in Hamilton, NY (1925)
·
Hillwood
(Marjorie Merriweather
Post House, now part of the C.W. Post
campus) (1927)
·
Middlebury
Inn* in Middlebury, VT
·
South
Nassau Communities Hospital (1928)
·
Colonial
Homes for the Dearborn Inn Complex, built for Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI (1937)
(National Register of Historic Places,1982)
·
Norwich
Inn* in Norwich, CT (1930)
·
Veterans
Hospital in the Bronx (alterations) (1959)
·
Williamsburg
Savings Bank in Brooklyn (1961)
·
Suffolk
Office Building in Bayshore (1960)
·
Rutgers
Houses in Manhattan (1961)
·
Timber
Point Golf Club in Great River
·
Nittany
Lion Inn*, State College, PA
·
Gansevoort
Inn in Rome, NY (1929)
·
Nathan
Hale Inn, in New Haven, CT
·
Pelham
Memorial High School, in Pelham, NY
·
Prospect
Hill School, Pelham, NY
·
Chandler
Building, in NYC
·
Residence
of Edward F. Hutton, Esq. in Wheatley Hills, NY
·
Residence
of E. S. H. Pendergast, Esq. in Short Hills, NJ
·
Residence
of William W. Peake, Esq. in Rye, NY
·
Residence
of Mrs. Charles Porter Wilson, in Mill Neck, NY
·
Residence
of Julius A. Migel, Esq. in Pelham Manor, NY
·
Residence
of Clayton Du Bosque, Esq. in Glen Cove, NY
·
Residence
of John T. Snyder, Esq. in Pelham Manor, NY
·
Residence
of Otto Young, Esq. in Great Neck, NY
·
Residence
of Richard Remsen, Esq. Garden City, NY
·
Residence
of Alfred E. Mudge, Esq., Northport, NY
·
Residence
of R. Clifford Black, Esq., “Broadmoor” Colorado Springs, CO.
*Designated a Historic Hotel of
America (part of National
Trust for Historic Preservation)
