Background
Jacobberger was born in the 1860s to cousins Hubert Jacobberger and Josephine Jacobberger (née Kuony).
Jacobberger was born in the 1860s to cousins Hubert Jacobberger and Josephine Jacobberger (née Kuony).
Joseph Jacobberger later attended Creighton University, graduating c1887.
He was a partner in the firm Jacobberger and Smith. Sources fail to agree on the year or even the decade of his birth. The Jacobbergers immigrated to the United States sometime after 1869 and before 1874.
The family moved to Omaha, Nebraska where Hubert Jacobberger became a building contractor.
He worked briefly in Minneapolis then worked with Arkansas Saunders in Tacoma prior to settling in Portland in 1890. In Portland, Jacobberger began as a draftsman in the firm Whidden & Lewis.
Jacobberger left Portland in the 1890s and worked with Frank Chamberlain Clark in the Los Angeles offices of Frank Roehrig. He returned to Portland in 1900 and began to build his own practice.
An early contract was the campus design at the University of Portland, known in 1901 as Columbia University.
Jacobberger began an association with the Catholic Archdiocese of Portland that resulted in several design projects, although during his first decade as an independent architect in Portland, Jacobberger preferred residential designs and small commercial projects. The firm Jacobberger and Smith was responsible for many buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Jacobberger suffered a heart attack in 1930.
While recovering, he had another attack and died one day before his birthday.
Auto Rest Garage, 925-935 10th Avenue., Southwest Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger & Smith), NRHP-listed
Boschke-Boyd House, 2211 North-East Thompspn Saint Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger and Smith), NRHP-listed
Calumet Hotel, 620 Southwest Park Saint Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger,Jacob), NRHP-listed
James C. and Mary A. Costello House, 2043 North-East Tillamook Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger, Joseph), NRHP-listed
Frank East. Dooly House, 2670 Northwest Lovejoy Saint Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger,Josef), NRHP-listed
Giesy-Failing House, 1965 Southwest. Montgomery Place Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger & Smith.
Jacobberger,Joseph), NRHP-listed
Hibernian Hall, 128 North-East Russell Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger, Joseph & Smith, Alfred), NRHP-listed
Josef Jacobberger House, 1502 Southwest. Upper Hall Saint Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger,Josef), NRHP-listed
Joseph Jacobberger Country House, 5545 Southwest Sweetbriar Street, near Portland, Oregon, NRHP-listed
Lombard Automobile Buildings, 123-35 Northwest Broadway;134 Northwest 8th Avenue. Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger, Joseph), NRHP-listed
Daniel J. Malarkey House, 2141 Southwest Hillcrest Place
Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger, Joseph), NRHP-listed
Markle-Pittock House, 1816 Southwest Hawthorne Terrace
Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger & Smith), NRHP-listed
McDougall-Campbell House, 3846 North.W. Thurman Saint Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger, Joseph), NRHP-listed
Monastery of the Precious Blood, 1208 Southeast 76th Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger & Smith), NRHP-listed
Jacques and Amelia Reinhart House, 7821 South.E. Thirtieth Avenue. Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger & Smith), NRHP-listed
Doctor James Rosenfeld House, 2125 Southwest Twenty-first Avenue. Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger,Joseph), NRHP-listed
Alfred H. and Mary East. Smith House, 1806 Southwest High Saint Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger, Joseph), NRHP-listed
Walter V. Smith House, 1943 Southwest. Montgomery Doctor Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger,Joseph), NRHP-listed
Villa Saint Rose, 597 North. Dekum Saint Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger, Joseph), NRHP-listed
Frank M. Warren House, 2545 Northwest. Westover Road
Portland, Oregon (Jacobberger,Joseph), NRHP-listed.
