Carl Hribar Of New York And Sag Harbor Dies April 26

Carl Hribar of New York City and Sag Harbor dies on April 26. He was 77.

According to his family, at 5 years old, Mr. Hribar drew his first house and declared that he was going to become an architect so he could create homes for as many families as possible. He leaves nearly 100 homes in the Hamptons, plus a web of his designs along the East Coast and throughout the country.​

Mr. Hribar was born in Detroit, finished grade school in Grosse Pointe and graduated from the University of Michigan School of Architecture.​

In the early 1960s, Mr. Hribar moved to New York City, where he worked for Skidmore, Owings & Merril until opening his own practice, simply “Carl Hribar Architect,” on Union Square, from which he continued to work until lung issues took his life.

Mr. Hribar maintained a year-round satellite office in Sag Harbor, in conjunction with the weekend house that he and his family established in 1965.​

In addition to his designs, his family said that Mr. Hribar was recognized for his yummy pies and gardening, including bushes carved into facing whales on either side of the porch steps to his house on Hampton Street.

He was also a collector of fashionably printed trousers.​

Mr. Hribar is survived by his former wife Ki Hackney; daughters Christina and Caroline Hribar; Caroline’s husband Mallon Fitzpatrick; their children, Dylan and Renton (aka Ren); plus his brother Louis; and his sister Ellen Smith.