Frederick C. Sauer

Photograph of architect Frederick C. Sauer published in 1901 Frederick C. Sauer (1860 – 1942) architect likely depicted holding church model on church mural by Maksimilijan "Maxo" Vanka (1937) in St. Nicholas Croatian Church, Millvale, Pennsylvania. St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, built 1891, in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Frederick C. Sauer (1860, Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden – 1942 Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, United States while studying at Technical school in Wittenberg, before studying at Stuttgart. established the Aspinwall-Delafield Land Company in 1904, and built about a dozen Catholic churches in the area. After remodeling his chicken coop in an eccentric mode in 1928 and 1930, he gradually transformed a wooded hillside into an architectural fantasy, and a complex of castlesque buildings and landscape features in Fantastic architectural style gradually took shape and was progressively added to by Sauer until his death in 1942. St. Mary Magdalene Church (1895) at 1008 Amity Street in Homestead, Pennsylvania Church of the Immaculate Conception (1896) at 148 E. Crawford Avenue in Connellsville, Pennsylvania St. Mary of the Mount Church (1896) at 403 Grandview Avenue in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA Latimer School (1898) at Tripoli and James Streets in East Allegheny on the North Side of Pittsburgh, PA Sauer House (1898) at 625 Center Avenue in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania (Sauer's home and the first dwelling built on what would later become the Sauer Buildings Historic District, a collection of buildings he designed, built, and worked on for the rest of his life) St. Nicholas Croatian Church (1900) at 1326 East Ohio Street in the Troy Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA St. Colman's Roman Catholic Church (1901 to 1903) at 128 Shaw Avenue in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania (Torn down, now a parking lot. New church called St. Colman's at Hunter and Thompson Streets.) Sauer House - (1910) at 311 Highland Terr. O'hara, Pennsylvania - Sauer's home for a few years before selling in 1920. St. Nicholas Croatian Church (1922) at 24 Maryland Avenue in Millvale, Pennsylvania Heidelberg (1928–1930) three-story apartment house in fantastic architectural style. Considered by some critics to be the main structure of the Sauer Buildings Historic District in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, and perhaps the catalyst for Sauer's experiments in architectural fantasy. Sauer continued to work on the buildings in this district until his death in 1942.

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