Frederick C. Sauer

Frederick C. Sauer (1860,[1] Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden[2] – 1942 Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, United States[3]) was a German-American architect, particularly in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, region of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[4] He moved to Pittsburgh from Germany in 1880,[4] established a Pittsburgh office in 1884,[3] established the Aspinwall-Delafield Land Company in 1904,[6] and built about a dozen Catholic churches in the area.

[7] After remodeling his chicken coop in an eccentric mode in 1928 and 1930, he gradually transformed a wooded hillside into an architectural fantasy, and a complex of castlesque buildings and landscape features in Fantastic architectural style gradually took shape and was progressively added to by Sauer until his death in 1942.

"It is the most bizarre collection of buildings in Western Pennsylvania," says Franklin Toker, professor of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.

[4] Italics denote a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places:

Frederick C. Sauer (1860 – 1942) architect likely depicted holding church model on church mural by Maksimilijan "Maxo" Vanka (1937) in St. Nicholas Croatian Church , Millvale, Pennsylvania .
St. Stanislaus Kostka Church , built 1891, in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .