Frederick W. Garber

Frederick W. Garber (July 21, 1877 – August 7, 1950) was an American architect in Cincinnati, Ohio and the principal architect in the Garber & Woodward firm with Clifford B. Woodward (1880–1932). Their work has been described as in the Beaux-Arts tradition and included buildings on the University of Cincinnati campuses, schools, hospitals, commercial buildings, "fine residences" and public housing. Garber and Woodward were students together, business partners in their architectural firm, and brothers-in-law. They attended Cincinnati Technical School, worked as draftsmen for Elzner & Anderson in Cincinnati; and attended a two-year course in architecture at M.I.T. (studying with Beaux-Arts-trained Professor C.D. Despradelle).

During the Great Depression F.W. Garber was head of the Associated Architects responsible for the design of the early WPA Projects: Laurel Homes and Lincoln Court (formerly on Ezzard Charles Drive) west of Music Hall (replaced by City West ca. 2002–2003), and later the English Woods and Winton Terrace housing projects. and is also recognized as a historic landmark by the Miami Historical Preservation Association.

The firm's Chamber of Commerce Building on 1-11 Capitol Street in Charleston, West Virginia was later demolished. It was a six floor rigid frame steel structure user as a commercial office.

The nine-story Vernon Manor Hotel was built in 1924 the Avondale neighborhood "for wealthy Cincinnatians longing to get away from the hustle and bustle of downtown". Perched atop one of the cities' Seven Hills it overlooks the city skyline. It was featured in the 1986 film Rainman starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman.

Garber & Woodward were involved in planning with landscape architect John Nolen for a recreation center in the Mariemont project development, "an essential component" but after Nolen's services were terminated the commission was never fulfilled, and it was designed by New York architect George B. deGersdorff instead who was an old classmate and friend of Charles Livingood. Architect Edward Kruckemeyer worked with Garber & Woodward for a time before joining with another MIT classmate, Charles Strong in 1915 after they traveled together in Europe.

Garber practiced with John Postler and Lawrence Lefken from 1933 to 1938 and on his own from 1939 to 1952. He also designed Sander Hall at the University of Cincinnati (since imploded). He also authored a 1973 guide called "An architectural program for adult corrections facilities for Cincinnati and Hamilton County".

Projects Main Library building, Cincinnati Moore House in Cincinnati, a wood-and-glass house on a site (1952). It was being video taped, documented and salvaged prior to demolition in 2007. Woodie Garber residence Glendale, Ohio Procter Hall, University of Cincinnati (1968), used for the College of Nursing. All Saints Chapel addition, Christ Church Glendale (1959–1960)

Frederick W. Garber and Woodward & Garber projects

Residences, churches, and other buildings William Cooper Procter's Glendale, Ohio residence (1904) and his summer house in Devon, L.I. (1909). and is a branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County system. Avondale Library (1913) in Cincinnati, a Spanish Colonial style building featuring a Rookwood tile entry, decorative iron work, and a domed ceiling. A Rookwood drinking fountain was presented to the branch by the Avondale Improvement Association to mark its opening at 3566 Reading Road. It was funded by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation Taft Museum (ca. 1930) remodel of the residence into a museum. Bethlehem Methodist Church (now Calvary United) in Evanston, a "somewhat austere but handsome and site-specific work in the Collegiate Gothic Revival style" additions to J.W. McLaughlin's Cincinnati Art Museum including the Emery, French, and Hanna wings

Commercial and apartment buildings F. W. Woolworth Building in Lexington, Kentucky Phoenix Building/Cincinnati Club (Piatt Park Center) an 11-story neo-classical building designed by Garber & Woodward with Samuel Hannaford & Sons (1924) Dixie Terminal Building (1921) on Fourth Street in downtown Cincinnati including a "superb Adamesque barrel vault" Laurel Homes Historic District list on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. (mostly demolished in 2002) Phelps Apartment House (The Phelps), a 13-floor beaux-arts apartment building on the 500 block of East Fourth Street (1926)

Schools Walnut Hills High School, "based on Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia Rotunda" in Walnut Hills overlooking Victory Parkway in Evanston (1929–1931) Lafayette Bloom School (1915) 1941 Baymiller Street General Contractor D. Meinken & Sons Cincinnati Ohio Hartwell High School General Contractor D. Meinken & Sons Cincinnati Ohio

University of Cincinnati buildings Nippert Stadium (1912) (since remodeled)