Robert S. Roeschlaub

Robert Sawers Roeschlaub (born July 6, 1843 in Munich , † October 25, 1923 in San Diego , California ) was a German-born American architect in Denver , Colorado .

Life

Corner Solution Riverside Building, Pueblo, Colorado, circa 1890

Robert Roeschlaub was born as the son of the royal Bavarian court doctor Dr. Michael Roeschlaub (Röschlaub) was born in Munich. His mother Margaretta Roeschlaub was of Scottish origin. In 1845 the family emigrated to the USA. She lived first in Missouri and then in Quincy, Illinois .

From 1862 to 1865 Robert Roesch leaves took on the Union side in the American Civil War in part, served from August 1862 in the 84th Illinois Infantry Company E Quincy as a sergeant, from May 1863 as a second lieutenant, from March 1865 as a lieutenant and retired as a captain on the 6th June 1865. He was wounded at the Battle of Stone River in 1862 and at Chickamauga in 1863 .

After his return to Quincy, Roeschlaub married Anna Fisher in 1868, became an apprentice and employee of the architect Robert Bunce, opened the Robert S. Roeschlaub architectural office in Denver , Colorado in 1873 , where he realized a. a. between 1880 and 1884 with Alexander Cazin , numerous schools, university buildings, churches, residential and commercial buildings also in the North American Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style. After a son joined the office from 1903 to 1912, when Roberts, Roeschlaub & Son left the company. Roeschlaub was one of three curators of the Colorado History Society , a member of the Denver's building code , from 1889 Member of the AIA ( American Institute of Architects ) and 1900 Fellow of the AIA College of Fellows. From 1892 to 1912 he served as President of the AIA Colorado and in 1909 led to number 1 in the list of architects in Colorado after the Architect's Licensing Law was passed . His grave is in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver.

Buildings

Street view of Riverside Buildings, Pueblo, Colorado, circa 1890

Commercial buildings

King Block (1879)
Bancroft Block (1880)
Times Building (1881)
Union Block (1881)
Barth Block (1881)

Department stores

AT Lewis & Son Dept. (1894; 1902)
IF Williams Store (1902)
Hover Drug Co. buildings as outstanding examples of commercial architecture in Roeschlaub's work

Cultural, educational and sacred buildings

Central City Opera House / Opera House (1878)
First Congregationalist Church in Manitou Springs (1882)
Trinity United Methodist Church / Church (1888)
Corona School (1889)
Chamberlin Observatory (1890), University of Denver
Cheyenne County Jail (1894), now a museum
The Hover Mansion / Villa (1902)

literature

Francine Haber, Kenneth R. Fuller, David N. Wetzel: Robert S. Roeschlaub, Architect of the Emerging West, 1843-1923 ; ed. Colorado Historical Society, Denver 1988; 1992 University Press of Colorado

Web links

Commons : Robert S. Roeschlaub - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Roeschlaub, Robert S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Roeschlaub, Robert Sawers (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-born American architect in Denver, Colorado
DATE OF BIRTH	July 6, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	October 25, 1923
Place of death	San Diego , California