Victor W. Voorhees

Victor W. Voorhees (1876–1970) was an American architect most active in Seattle, Washington.

Considered one of the Northwest's finest designer of garages, he was responsible for a large number of automobile related buildings built on Capitol Hill in the 1910s and 1920s, Seattle's original auto row.

[1] His residential plan book, Western Home Builder, which went through six editions between 1907 and 1911, provided templates for popular local house designs like the Seattle box.

After working as a real estate and loan agent in Minneapolis, he moved to Ballard, Washington in 1904 and founded his first architectural firm, Fisher & Voorhees, and later Voorhees & Palmer, with Lewis W. Palmer, in the Eitel Building in downtown Seattle in 1905, both of which would only last a few months.

Several of his designs have been recognized as local and national historic landmarks, including: While mostly specializing in low-rise commercial and residential buildings beyond Seattle's commercial core, among his last high-profile projects were a trio of skyscrapers for Joseph Vance, including the Lloyd Building (1926), Vance Hotel (1926) and the Joseph Vance Building (1929).