Stephen Decatur Hatch

Stephen Decatur Hatch (b. 1839 - d. 1894) was a prominent late-19th century architect who was responsible for a number of historically or architecturally significant buildings in Manhattan, New York City and elsewhere. He primarily designed commercial buildings.

Hatch was born in Swanton, Vermont, the son of an inventor, and moved to New York City, where he found employment as a construction inspector. He joined the busy architectural firm of John B. Snook in 1860 as a draftsman. He left around 1864 to start his own practice, and became the architect of the U.S. War Department, responsible for construction of military posts in New York. His practice began to flourish in 1868.

Hatch died in 1894, during the construction of an extension to the headquarters building of the New York Life Insurance Company.

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