Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin was born at
Constantinople on September 5, 1855, the son of missionaries
Cyrus Hamlin and
Harriet Martha Hamlin. He graduated from
Amherst in 1875, studied
architecture in
Boston and
Paris, and afterward began teaching architecture at
Columbia in its school of engineering. He was director from 1903 to 1912. His relative,
Hannibal Hamlin, was vice president of the United States under Abraham Lincoln, during the American Civil War. He wrote many articles in the professional magazines and was the author of
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture (1906). He was one of the men who collaborated to write
European and Japanese Gardens (1902). He married Minnie Florence Marston on June 4, 1885, and they had four children. == Selected publications ==