Oscar Wenderoth

He first joined the Office of Supervising Architect as a senior architectural draftsman in 1897, working in the office for three separate time periods before being appointed as its director. He was appointed to the directorship by President William Howard Taft in 1912. He resigned in 1915 without providing a public explanation of his resignation. Soon after his resignation he joined Weary & Alford in Chicago as Supervising Architect, where he worked for five years. In the ensuing years his sight failed, leading to blindness and retirement in 1920. He died in 1938 in New York City.

• Name — Oscar Wenderoth • Born — 10 April 1871 • Birthplace — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S.A. • Died — 14 April 1938 • Place of death — New York, New York, U.S.A.

• Illustration — United States Post Office (later Senior Citizen's Center), Bowling Green, Ohio, 1913 • Illustration — United States Post Office, Blue Island, Illinois, 1914 • Illustration — United States Post Office, Oneonta, New York, 1915 • Illustration — United States Post Office and Courthouse, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1915 • Illustration — United States Post Office, Miles City, Montana, 1916 • Illustration — United States Post Office and Courthouse, Pendleton, Oregon, 1916 • Illustration — James A. Redden Federal Courthouse, Medford, Oregon, 1916 • Illustration — United States Post Office, Port Jervis, New York, c.1920 • Illustration — U.S. Post Office, Berkeley, California, 1914 • Illustration — United States Post Office, Clarksville, Texas, 1914