Edwin Carl Landberg

1894 - 1962

• Born	22 Aug 1894
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Apr 1962	Ft, Thomas, Kentucky
  Person ID	I8907	Johnson Hindin Tree
  Last Modified	23 Dec 2013

  
  

  Family	Hannah WOODBURN,   b. Jan 1895, Kentucky ,   d. 1 Jul 1970, Campbell Co., Kentucky
  Children	1. Clara Mae Landberg,   b. 22 Feb 1924, Campbell Co., Kentucky   2. Mary Lou Landberg,   b. 28 Nov 1926, Campbell Co., Kentucky ,   d. 27 May 1984, Seabrook, Texas   3. Joyce Quinn Landberg,   b. 16 Sep 1932, Campbell Co., Kentucky
  Family ID	F3504	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Edwin was a well-known architect in Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. The following biography was published on the website of the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati (http://oldsite.architecturecincy.org/dictionary/L.html) and was available in 2013: Landberg, E.C. (Edwin Carl) (Cincinnati, 1894) Educated in Dayton, Oh.; University of Cincinnati, 1913; and received private instruction in advanced structural engineering 1918-1923.  Traveled in France and England, studying architectural types and construction.  Worked in Charleston, W.Va., with J.L. Montgomery and State Architect J. Russ Warne 1914-1917; with the Ferro Concrete Construction Co. in Cincinnati 1917-1923; and then on his own and with his brother G.T. Landberg after 1931.  Listed in Cincinnati 1928-1962, although much of his practice was in N. Ky., including public schools (he is said to have been one of the first Roman Catholics to break this tacit barrier), such as the Dayton (Ky.) High School (recently converted into apartments), and the Lincoln Grant School on Greenup St., Covington, an attractive Moderne facility for Black children (1931).  The firm also designed the Mariemont Jr.-Sr. High School (1936-1939), and the N. Avondale School.  The grand, belated Moderne Scottish Rite Masonic Temple on Madison Avenue in Covington (1955) is attributed to E.C. Landberg.  He was associated with G. Truman Landberg (ca. 1898-1951) on these and other projects. E.C. Landberg's early work was published on the brink of the Depression in A Monograph of the Work of E.C. Landberg, Architect (Cincinnati: Universal Press Publishing, 1929).  This displays a varied body of work, including many residences and apartment houses in a range of scales and styles (although mostly vaguely Tudor Revival), schools (with some Arts & Crafts aspects), lodge halls, churches (Collegiate Gothic), and a few commercial-cum-residential buildings (Dayton and Bellevue, Ky.), and finally the Silvia Theatre in Bellevue.  Almost all the work is in Northern Kentucky; the residences in Fort Thomas, and the other buildings in the river towns or inland.  The advertisements at the back of the brochure (like that on H.W. Cordes & Sons) include much other interesting information on builders and suppliers, often illustrated, and possible lists of other attributions to Landberg. Sullebarger, AIC (2006), 228; CAIA (1947). The following obituary appeared in the Press Gazette (Hillsboro, Ohio) on May 1, 1962: E. C. Landberg Edwin C. Landberg, who as the architect for the Hillsboro High School building and later for the vocational agriculture and music room addition, died last Wednesday, April 25, at his home in Ft. Thomas, Ky. He is survivied by his wife, Hannah Woodburn Landberg; three daughers, Mrs. Clara Mae Leake, Mrs. Joyce Steinman and Mary Lou Garrison; 10 grandchildren, and one brother, Oscar F. Landberg. Services were held Saturday, April 28, at the Dobbling Funeral Home in Ft. Thomas.