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Edward H. Hoyt (March 18, 1868 – March 20, 1936) was an American architect in practice in Boston from 1911 until 1932.

Life and career
Edward Harrison Hoyt was born March 18, 1868 in Ossipee, New Hampshire to Edward Adolphus Hoyt and Harriette (Hanson) Hoyt. He was raised in Boston, where he was educated in the public schools. He worked for architects Peabody & Stearns, Cabot & Chandler and Wheelwright & Haven, where he worked under former city architect Edmund M. Wheelwright. He was later promoted to chief drafter and was closely involved with the firm's major projects, including Jordan Hall (1903) and the Boston Opera House (1909). In 1911, following the collapse of Wheelwright's health, Hoyt became a partner in the firm, which became Wheelwright, Haven & Hoyt, and after his death in 1912 it became Haven & Hoyt.

Haven & Hoyt built upon several of the specialties developed by Wheelwright. These included bridges, and they consulted on the design of several: the Anderson Memorial Bridge (1915) and the North Beacon Street Bridge (1917) over the Charles River at Boston and the Memorial Bridge (1922) over the Connecticut River at Springfield. They were also responsible for Brown Hall (1928), an addition to Wheelwright & Haven's earlier Jordan Hall (1903). They also developed their own specialty for hospital design. Haven retired in 1931 and Hoyt continued alone. His major work of the 1930s was the Thomas P. Costin Jr. Post Office Building (1933) in Lynn, designed in association with Ripley & LeBoutillier. Due to his declining health Hoyt retired from practice circa 1932 prior to the completion of this last project.

Hoyt was a charter member of the Boston Architectural Club. He served as its presidents from 1899 to 1901 and also served in several leadership roles in the Boston Society of Architects. Hoyt joined the American Institute of Architects in 1913 and was elected a Fellow in 1931. From 1929 to 1932 he was a member of the Boston City Planning Board.

Personal life and death
Hoyt was married in 1906 to Eleanor Agnes Barrett in Watertown, Massachusetts. They had three children: Barrett, Natalie and Harrison. In 1929 Barrett Hoyt, then a student at Harvard University, was the first patient to be successfully treated by Philip Drinker's iron lung. Hoyt died March 20, 1936 at his home in Brighton at the age of 68.

Architectural works

 * Howard T. Mann house, 220 Buckminster Rd, Brookline, Massachusetts (1913)
 * Anderson Memorial Bridge, Charles River, Allston, Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts (1915)
 * North Beacon Street Bridge, Charles River, Brighton, Boston and Watertown, Massachusetts (1917)
 * Salem Hospital, 81 Highland Ave, Salem, Massachusetts (1917)
 * Memorial Bridge, Connecticut River, Springfield and West Springfield, Massachusetts (1922)
 * Pinehurst Country Club, 1 Carolina Vista Dr, Pinehurst, North Carolina (1922)
 * Lydia Pinkham Memorial Clinic, 264 N Derby St, Salem, Massachusetts (1922)
 * Neponset River Bridge, Neponset River, Dorchester, Boston and Quincy, Massachusetts (1923, demolished)
 * Frederick Kingsley house, 258 Hammond St, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (1926)
 * Newton High School, 457 Walnut St, Newton, Massachusetts (1926, demolished)
 * New England Conservatory of Music Brown Hall addition, 290 Huntington Ave, Boston (1928)
 * Thomas P. Costin Jr. Post Office Building, 51 Willow St, Lynn, Massachusetts (1933, NRHP 1986)

Published works

 * Edward H. Hoyt, "Hospital Construction and Costs" in Architectural Forum 37, no. 6 (December, 1922): 303–304.