Oscar Ruffini

Oscar Ruffini (10 April 1858–18 January 1957) was an architect in San Angelo, Texas.

He was the first civic architect in the city and was responsible for many buildings across West Texas in the last 20 years of the 19th century.

Oscar and his siblings, Frederick, Alvin, Clara, and Camilla, were raised in Cleveland, Ohio.

Documentation on Oscar's life before his arrival in San Angelo, Texas is spotty, but at 14 he and Frederick were apprenticed to a Cleveland-based architect.

Surviving sketchbooks in the possession of the Fort Concho Museum contain studies and sketches of Classical statuary and architectural details.