Frederick James Woodbridge, AIA

American Institute of Architects

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, (1900-1974), was an American architect based in New York City who practiced in mid- to late-twentieth-century New York

New York

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, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, and Connecticut

Connecticut

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, as part of the firms Evans, Moore & Woodbridge

Evans, Moore & Woodbridge

Evans, Moore, and Woodbridge was an American architectural firm in the early to mid-twentieth-century New York City. Through partner, Frederick James Woodbridge, FAIA, it was a predecessor firms Adams and Woodbridge, which estimated in 1953 that the firm and its predecessors Evans, Moore, and...

, Mamfeldt, Adams & Woodbridge, and Adams & Woodbridge

Adams & Woodbridge

Adams and Woodbridge was an American architectural firm in the mid-twentieth-century New York City, established in 1945 by Lewis Greenleaf Adams, AIA, and Frederick James Woodbridge, FAIA, and disestablished in 1974 after the latter's death. It was the successor to the firms Evans, Moore &...

(1945-1974), as well as being a sometime archeologist.

Early life and education

Born May 18, 1900 in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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, Woodbridge attended Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 1917, Amherst College, graduating in 1921, Columbia University School of Architecture, graduating in 1923, and the American Academy in Rome from 1923-1925. He was also the Boyer Research Fellow in Classical Archeology at the University of Michigan.

Architectural career

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

Within the AIA, he was the chairman for the 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.

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.

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.