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Joseph Jacobberger

{{short description|American architect}}

{{Infobox architect

| name = Joseph Jacobberger

| image = Joseph Jacobberger.jpg

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|03|19}}

| birth_place = Alsace

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1930|03|18|1869|03|19}}

| death_place = Portland, Oregon

| nationality = French, German

| alma_mater = Creighton University

| spouse = Anna Lillis (1863{{dash}}1908)
Catherine Lillis (1874{{dash}}1912)
Rose Manassa (1879{{dash}}1955)

| children = Mary, Hubert, Francis, Vincent, Bertrand, Margaret

| parents = Hubert Jacobberger, Catherine Jacobberger (née Jacoberger)

| awards =

| practice = Jacobberger and Smith

| significant_buildings = B.P. John Administrative Building
Calumet Hotel
Daniel J. Malarkey House

| significant_projects = Early buildings and campus design at the University of Portland

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Joseph Jacobberger (March 19, 1869{{dash}}March 18, 1930) was an American architect based in Portland, Oregon. He partnered with Alfred H. Smith in the firm Jacobberger and Smith.

Early life

Jacobberger was born on March 19, 1869, in Lautenbach, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France to cousins Hubert Jacobberger and Josephine Jacobberger. Archives du Haut-Rhin, Lautenbach, Naissances, 1863-1872, p. 91, https://archives.haut-rhin.fr/ark:/naan/a011455803220OAt3EJ/674d49a646 The Jacobbergers immigrated to the United States in 1872.New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=nypl&h=13837821&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt{{cite web | last =Michelson | first =Alan | title =Jacobberger, Joseph | work =Pacific Coast Architecture Database | publisher =University of Washington | url =https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/3734/ | accessdate = January 28, 2015 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150129032929/https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/3734/ | archivedate=January 29, 2015}}Jacobberger's obituary in The Oregonian stated that he was 62 years old at his death in 1930 and that his family immigrated when he was two years old. Another view is that his family immigrated in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War, and he died one day before his sixty-first birthday. However, the obituary contains other information that is undisputed. {{cite news | title =Josef Jacobberger, Prominent Pioneer Architect, Dies Here | newspaper =The Oregonian | location =Portland | pages =1 | date =March 19, 1930 }} The family moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where Hubert Jacobberger became a building contractor. Joseph Jacobberger later attended Creighton University, graduating c1887.{{cite web | last =Demuth | first =Kimberly | title =Malarkey, Daniel J., House | work =National Register of Historic Places Registration Form | publisher =National Park Service | date =1993 | url ={{NRHP url|id=93000450}} | format =pdf | accessdate =February 5, 2015 | archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20220810103531/https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/93000450_text | archivedate =August 10, 2022 | url-status =dead }}

He worked briefly in Minneapolis then worked with A.R. Saunders in Tacoma prior to settling in Portland in 1890.{{cite book | last =Ritz | first =Richard Ellison | title =Architects of Oregon | publisher =Lair Hill | date =2003 | location =Portland | pages =206 | isbn =978-0972620024}} In Portland, Jacobberger began as a draftsman in the firm Whidden & Lewis.

Career

Jacobberger left Portland in the 1890s and worked with Frank Chamberlain Clark in the Los Angeles offices of Frank Roehrig.{{cite web | title =Frank Chamberlain Clark | work =Living Places | publisher =The Gombach Group | url =http://www.livingplaces.com/people/frank-chamberlain-clark.html | accessdate = January 28, 2015 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150129042702/http://www.livingplaces.com/people/frank-chamberlain-clark.html | archivedate=January 29, 2015}} He returned to Portland in 1900 and began to build his own practice.

An early contract was the campus design at the University of Portland, known in 1901 as Columbia University. Jacobberger began an association with the Catholic Archdiocese of Portland that resulted in several design projects, although during his first decade as an independent architect in Portland, Jacobberger preferred residential designs and small commercial projects.

In 1912 Jacobberger formed a partnership with Alfred H. Smith that would continue until 1930. The firm Jacobberger and Smith was responsible for many buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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Death

Jacobberger suffered a heart attack in 1930. While recovering, he had another attack and died one day before his 61st birthday.

Works

A partial list of Jacobberger's and the firm's works include (with individual or joint attribution):

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Category:20th-century American architects

Category:Architects from Portland, Oregon

Category:1869 births

Category:1930 deaths

Category:People from Alsace-Lorraine

Category:Creighton University alumni

Category:19th-century American architects