Background
Farquhar was born in Brooklyn, the son of David Webber Farquhar (1844–1905) and Sarah Malvina Joslyn.
Farquhar was born in Brooklyn, the son of David Webber Farquhar (1844–1905) and Sarah Malvina Joslyn.
He attended Phillips Exeter and Harvard (class of 1893). Farquhar completed an architectural degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1893–1895), and then attended École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1896–1901), where he organized the first ever american football game played in Europe.
He returned to New York and worked in the office of Hunt & Hunt, and of Carrère and Hastings. Farquhar moved to Los Angeles in 1905 and practised architecture there. He went to Italy with the American Red Cross in 1918, and re-opened his office in Los Angeles in 1919.
He worked with chief architect George Edwin Bergstrom on design of the Pentagon in 1941.
The archives of his architectural studies and drawings are maintained at the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Special Collections. Farquhar married Marion Jones (daughter of John Percival Jones) in New York City, in 1903.
He was appointed a member of the architectural commission of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915, and designed Festival Hall.