Background
Herbert W. Foltz was born in 1867 at Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
Herbert W. Foltz was born in 1867 at Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
At the age of nineteen he entered the Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Ind., and following graduation studied architecture in Chicago at the Armour Institute.
After the year 1891, when Mr. Foltz opened an office in Indianapolis, he was active throughout a long and successful career, designing many and varied types of public and commercial buildings. Among his best known works in that city were the Broadway and Irvington Street Methodist churches; Y. M. C. A.; Tudor Hall School for Girls and a number of city High Schools. Also he designed the Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Ind.; Buildings at the State Hospital for the Insane at Madison, Ind., (in association with William B. Parker); Indiana Village for Epileptics at New Castle, and the State Reformatory at Pendleton, Ind.
In later years Mr. Foltz turned his practice over to a son, Richard G. Foltz, and spent the rest of his days in retirement at Winter Park, Florida.