Frederick James Woodbridge

Frederick James Woodbridge
Born May 18, 1900[1][2]
Minneapolis, Minnesota[2]
Died January 17, 1974
New York City
Alma mater Phillips Exeter Academy (1917), Amherst College (1921), Columbia University School of Architecture (1923), American Academy in Rome (1923-1925) [2]
Occupation Architect
Practice Partner in Adams & Woodbridge, Mamfeldt, Adams & Woodbridge, and Evans, Moore & Woodbridge

Frederick James Woodbridge, AIA, (1900–1974), was an American architect based in New York City who practiced in mid- to late-twentieth-century New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, as part of the firms Evans, Moore & Woodbridge, Mamfeldt, Adams & Woodbridge, and Adams & Woodbridge (1945–1974), as well as being a sometime archeologist.[2]

Early life and education

Born May 18, 1900 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Woodbridge attended Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 1917,[2] Amherst College, graduating in 1921,[2] Columbia University School of Architecture, graduating in 1923,[2] and the American Academy in Rome from 1923-1925.[2] He was also the Boyer Research Fellow in Classical Archeology at the University of Michigan.[1]

Architectural career

Woodbridge began his career at McKim, Mead & White, working there from 1921 to 1922, and as a draftsman there from 1925 to 1929.[1][2] He was licensed in New York (1928), Connecticut (1930), New Jersey (1937), and nationally as NCARB (1939) [1] and commenced his practice as a partner in 1929[1][2]

Within the AIA, he was the chairman for the Committee on Architectural Services, Vice Chairman for the Committee on Buildings Costs, Secretary for the New York Chapter Civilian Protection Committee from 1940-1941. He was the president of the Architectural League and secretary of its executive committee.[1]

He was a member of the Plattsburg & Columbia S.A.T.C in 1918, U.S. Naval Reserve Lieutenant, Lt. Commander of the O. in C. Air Naval Training Unit, Naval and Air Station, Quonset from 1942-1945.[1]

He was faculty at the Extension, School of Architecture, 1934-1942 as a critic in Design, Instructor in History of Architecture and Rendering, Lecturer on Design at the Institutional Residence Halls, of Teacher’s College, Columbia University (1939–1942). He was the architect for excavations at Antioch of Pisidia, Turkey, and at Carthage, Tunisia, from 1924 to 1925.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Questionnaire for Architects’ Roster and/or Register of Architects Qualified for Federal Public Works April 30, 1946.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Questionnaire for Architects’ Roster and/or Register of Architects Qualified for Federal Public Works February 27, 1953.
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