Charles Barthberger

Background

Charles Barthberger was born in 1823 at Baden, Germany.

Education

At the age of twenty, Charles was graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Carlsruhe.

Career

Charles migrating to the United States in 1845, the youth settled at Pittsburgh, and after beginning professional practice there, became one of the leading architects in the city, the first to have had the benefit of foreign training.

In his early work Mr. Barthberger designed a number of buildings which were erected in cities of western Pennsylvania and the eastern part of Ohio. Later, after 1885 he was associated in partnership with Ernest C. Diedrich, and under the firm name of Barthberger & Dietrich specialized in ecclesiastical work. Among the noted churches in Pittsburgh built from the firm's plans were: St. Paul's Cathedral; the 18th Street Presbyterian Church; St. Philomon's, and the Episcopal’ Church of St. Matthew. Mr. Barthberger also was an architect of a bank building on Fifth Street and the I. O. O. F. Hall, afterward occupied by the Opera House. In later years his son, C. M. Barthberger was associated with his father in practice.

Works

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• architecture

  • Presbyterian Church

    (The noted church in Pittsburgh, built from the Barthberge...)

  • Episcopal’ Church of St. Matthew

    (The noted church in Pittsburgh, built from the Barthberge...)

Connections

Charles has a son: C. M. Barthberger.

Son:

C. M. Barthberger

In later years his son, C. M. Barthberger was associated with his father Charles Barthberger in practice.

coworker:

Ernest C. Diedrich

After 1885 Mr. Barthberger was associated in partnership with Ernest C. Diedrich, and under the firm name of Barthberger & Dietrich specialized in ecclesiastical work.