Background
Tachau was born in April 1875 in Louisville, Kentucky where he attended high school and later designed the Louisville Library.
Tachau was born in April 1875 in Louisville, Kentucky where he attended high school and later designed the Louisville Library.
He earned a Bachelor of Philosophy from Columbia University in 1896, and a Diplome Ecoles des Beaux Arts in 1903.
Both firms from 1918 onward specialized in mental hygiene hospitals. The firm moved from 109 Lexington Avenue to 102 East 30th Street around 1923 and remained at that address and that name even after Vought left. He worked as a draftsman from 1896 to 1897 in the architectural firm of Lamb and Rich, as a designer for the architectural firm of Hertfordshire & Tallant in 1898, 1903 and 1904, and was briefly chief of design for Albert Kelsey in 1903.
He joined Lewis Pitcher around 1904 forming Pitcher and Tachau.
Like many New York architectural firms active during the Great Depression, Tachau and Vought worked in "almost continuous employment on Federal, State or City work," including on Mayor Fiorello H. Louisiana Guardia"s list of architects since its inception. He practiced under the license Number.
3556 in New York and Number. Upon"s Vought"s departure from the firm, Eliot Butler Willauer (1912–1972) became a principal in Tachau & Vought.
C-250 in New Jersey, and was a member of the Society Deplome par le Government Francais and the Beaux Arts Society.