Background
Woodruff Leeming was born in 1870 at Quincy, Illinois, United States.
Woodruff Leeming was born in 1870 at Quincy, Illinois, United States.
He completed his education at Adelphi College, Garden City, N. Y., and after taking up architectural study, graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1891. Later in that year he left for Paris for supplementary study at the Ecole des Beau Arts.
Following his return to New York Mr Leeming entered the office of Heins & LaFarge at a time when the firm was preparing plans for the proposed Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and continued as draftsman there about a year. In 1894 he opened his own office in Brooklyn and carried on a general practice until the time of his death, designing various public and private works in the greater New York area. Among these were the Beecher and Arbuckle Memorial Buildings in Brooklyn; Nassau Country Club, a palatial building at Glen Cove, Long Island, the Grace Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, and numerous residences.
In the Brooklyn Chapter, .A.I.A. of which he had been a member after 1909, he served successively as Secretary and President.