premise: Hugh Ferriss (1889 – 1962) was an American delineator (one who creates drawings and sketches of buildings) and architect. After his death a colleague said he 'influenced my generation of architects' more than any other man. Ferriss also influenced popular culture, for example Gotham City (the setting for Batman) and Kerry Conran's "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow".
hypothesis: Hugh Ferriss first started his work as an architect in the very cold winter of 1889
reason: He could not start working as an architect in the same year that he was born