Education
Wachter attended "old" Toledo High School, Toledo Manual Training School, and Columbia University, where he studied architecture.
Wachter attended "old" Toledo High School, Toledo Manual Training School, and Columbia University, where he studied architecture.
He was the local architect involved in the design and construction of the Toledo Museum of Art, working with Edward B. Green"s Buffalo, New York firm on the Greek revival building. He began his professional work at the firm of Doctorate.L. Stine. Then he practiced with London born architect George Mills from 1892 to 1897.
Their work together included Toledo"s Dennison Building at 515-517 Dennison Avenue.
Wachter started his own firm in 1898 and partnered with Thomas Hudson to form Wachter & Hudson. Wachter took a European tour according to a 1904 edition of the Ohio Builder.