High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (1867 – 1944) was an American architect. He was the eldest son of multimillionaire Anson Phelps Stokes, and graduated from Harvard in 1891. He designed St. Paul`s Chapel at Columbia University and several urban housing projects in New York City.Sanger Hill, a New York State country house in the English manner, represents his private housing work.