Career
The 41-unit Wisconsin Avenue project is the only Washington apartment house named for its architect, considered one of Washington"s most distinguished addresses. Among the thousands of brick colonial and federal-style homes he designed since the 1930s were parts of Woodacres and the entire neighborhoods of Fallsreach, Falls Mead, Luxmanor, Old Farm and Westbard Mews in Maryland. He also designed the neighborhoods of Lake Ridge, Falcon Ridge, Carlyle Walk and Afton Glen, all in Virginia.
The firm, Patterson & Worland, created the designs for many of the homes in Montgomery Village (1967), a planned community designed by the Kettler Brothers.
Patterson & Worland, became Worland Associates after Patterson retired in 1978. Worland retired in 1992, and the Rockville-based concern became Hutchinson + Associates.
Explaining the appeal of the colonial style in 1980, Worland told The Washington Post, "Many people move here from someplace else. They feel that they need something with a background.
The brick colonial is sort of a blanket–it provides security, a feeling of having been established in a community.
And it holds its value."
Bob Mitchell, president of the National Association of Home Builders, led a firm that built many of the projects Worland designed. The structures are called Rockmanor Office Park, at 1686 East. Gude Doctor, Rockville, Maryland (U.S.), and feature rear balconies overlooking Redgate Municipal Golf Course. Worland was born in Jasper, Indiana, and was a 1931 architecture graduate of what was then the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
After graduation, he came to the Washington area and began work as an architect.
He retired from the Army Reserve as a Colonel in 1967. His hobbies included gardening and family history.
Worland died December 11, 1999, at his home in Bethesda, Maryland (U.S.), of a heart attack. Worland was a co-author (with Olive Lewis Kolb and Vincent Worland) of One Manitoba"s Family: The Genealogy of the Worland Family in America, 1662-1962 published privately in 1968 and available as a Postdoctoral fellows. He was the posthumous author of Jasper Remembered: An Oral History of the Early 1900s in Southern Indiana, published in 2010, which is available from the Dubois Company
Historical Museum, Jasper, Indiana.
