{{short description|American architect}} {{Infobox person | name = Frederick Monhoff | birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|11|23}} | birth_place = New York City, NY, USA | death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|10|11|1897|11|23}} | death_place = Calistoga, CA, USA | spouse = June Hildegarde Flanner (1926-) }} '''Frederick Monhoff,''' {{Post-nominals|list=[[American Institute of Architects|AIA]]}}''',''' (November 23, 1897 &ndash; October 11, 1975) was an American architect, artist, and illustrator. His architectural style ranged from [[art deco]] to [[mid-century modern]], while his etchings of the 1920s-30s documented scenes of Native American and Mexican life in the American Southwest.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Report |first=Staff |date=2020-12-31 |title=Frederick Monhoff Designed Home Hits the Palm Springs Market |url=https://www.palmspringslife.com/home-design/real-estate/frederick-monhoff/ |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=Palm Springs Life |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Early life and family== Frederick Monhoff was born in [[New York City]] to Emil Monhoff (1865-1922) and Maria Therese Kremer Monhoff (1864-1951).<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Fletcher |first=Russell Holmes |url=http://archive.org/details/whoswhoincalifor194243flet |title=Who's who in California |date=1943 |publisher=Los Angeles, Calif. : Who's Who Pub. Co. |others=San Francisco Public Library}}</ref> As a boy, Monhoff moved to [[Los Angeles]] with his family. He served in the United States Navy during [[World War I]] and later attended the [[University of California, Berkeley]] where he received an M.A. in 1921.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Blue_and_Gold/hUYfAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The Blue and Gold |date=1920 |publisher=Class of '75 |language=en}}</ref> At Berkeley, Monhoff served on the staff of the school's literary journal ''The Occident''.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Blue_and_Gold/XEcfAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The Blue and Gold |date=1922 |publisher=Class of '75 |language=en}}</ref>

On June 29, 1926, Monhoff married [[Hildegarde Flanner|June Hildegarde Flanner]] and they settled in [[Altadena]], California.<ref name=":1" /> Monhoff illustrated several of Flanner's books of poetry and essays with his drawings and etchings. The couple had one child, John, born March 15, 1941. Hildegarde's sister was [[Janet Flanner]], a long time Paris correspondent for ''[[The New Yorker]]'', (writing under the pen name Genet). In 1962, Monhoff and his family moved north to [[Calistoga, California|Calistoga]], California, in the [[Napa Valley]] and he died there in 1975.

==Career== Monhoff served as a design architect for the Los Angeles County Architectural Divisions and designed numerous public buildings and private residences in Southern California in the Los Angeles area, [[Malibu, California|Malibu]], [[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]], [[Palm Springs]], [[Orange County, California|Orange County]], and in Northern California in the [[Napa Valley]].<ref name=":0" /> Monhoff taught design at the [[Otis Art Institute]] in Los Angeles (1926-1950) and at the [[Norton Simon Museum|Pasadena Art Institute]] (1959).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2013-03-08 |title=Mid-Century Modern by Frederick Monhoff in Pas Asking $655k |url=https://la.curbed.com/2013/3/8/10265888/midcentury-modern-by-frederick-monhoff-in-pas-asking-655k |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924113347/https://la.curbed.com/2013/3/8/10265888/midcentury-modern-by-frederick-monhoff-in-pas-asking-655k |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=Curbed (LA)}}</ref> During the 1940s, he also taught architecture at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] (UCLA).<ref name=":0" />

In 1924, the International Printmakers Society of California awarded Monhoff a bronze medal for ''Best Print or Best Series of Prints''. Monhoff's etching ''Burning of Clothes, Pinion Indian Reservation''<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Frederick Monhoff {{!}} National Gallery of Art |url=https://www.nga.gov/artists/33805-frederick-monhoff |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=www.nga.gov |language=en}}</ref> is listed in the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]'s 1932 exhibition catalog ''First International Exhibition of Etching and Engraving''. In early 2000, Monhoff's work was featured in the [[Sweet Briar College]] gallery exhibition, ''White to Blue: American Art as Reflection of Social Class in the 20th Century.'' The Frederick Monhoff Memorial Prize<ref>{{Cite web |title=Otis College of Art and Design |url=https://www.otis.edu/catalog/archive/catalog-05-06.pdf |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=Otis College of Art and Design}}</ref> and The Frederick Monhoff Printing Lab at [[Otis College of Art and Design]] in Los Angeles, California are named in his honor.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PCAD - Frederic E. Monhoff |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/1207/ |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=pcad.lib.washington.edu}}</ref>

Collections of Monhoff's archived papers, architectural plans, and art work are held at [[University of California, Los Angeles|University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)]], [[De Young (museum)|the De Young Museum]] in San Francisco and the [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]] in Washington, D.C.

Monhoff was a member of the American Institute of Architects from 1946-1949, and from 1965 until his death.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ahd1031055 - AIA Historical Directory of American Architects - Confluence |url=https://aiahistoricaldirectory.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHDAA/pages/35770194/ahd1031055 |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=aiahistoricaldirectory.atlassian.net}}</ref>

==Major works==

===Buildings=== * 3450 Ben Lomond Place, Los Feliz Knolls, Los Angeles, California (1927)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gluck |first=Marissa |date=2008-09-16 |title=That's Rather Lovely: 1920s Home in Los Feliz Knolls |url=https://la.curbed.com/2008/9/16/10559720/thats-rather-lovely-1920s-home-in-los-feliz-knolls |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604185944/http://la.curbed.com/2008/9/16/10559720/thats-rather-lovely-1920s-home-in-los-feliz-knolls |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 4, 2016 |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=Curbed LA |language=en}}</ref> * 822 North Roxbury Drive, Beverly Hills, California (1928){{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} * 787 E. Sonora, Palm Springs, California (1948)<ref name=":0" /> * Biltmore Hotel, Palm Springs, California (1948; demolished in 2003)<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Palm Springs Modernism Timeline - Palm Springs Modern Development |url=http://www.palmspringslife.com/media/Palm-Springs-Life/February-2007/Modernism-Timeline/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218052345/http://www.palmspringslife.com/media/Palm-Springs-Life/February-2007/Modernism-Timeline/ |archive-date=2007-02-18 |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=www.palmspringslife.com}}</ref> * 110 Anita Drive, Pasadena, California (1948)<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Fred Monhoff Papers, 1922-1970 – Elton, Mr./Mrs. |url=https://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:%2F13030%2Fkt2v19n83n_c02-1-8-6-2-29 |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=Online Archive of California, University of California}}</ref> * 3101 Clarmeya Lane, Pasadena, California (1948){{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} * 1204 N Beverly Glen Blvd, Los Angeles, California (1948){{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} * 1975 Micheltorena Street, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California (1950)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fred Monhoff Papers, 1922-1970 – Jamain, Dr./Mrs. |url=https://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:%2F13030%2Fkt2v19n83n_c02-1-8-6-2-55 |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=Online Archive of California, University of California}}</ref> * 630 Georgina Ave., Santa Monica, California (1950)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fred Monhoff Papers, 1922-1970 – Granstrom, Mr./Mrs. C. |url=https://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:%2F13030%2Fkt2v19n83n_c02-1-8-6-2-39 |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=Online Archive of California, University of California}}</ref> * 420 7th St., Santa Monica, California (1951)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horton |first=Robin Plaskoff |date=2015-03-30 |title=Sneak Peek: Dwell on Design Los Angeles Home Tour |url=https://www.urbangardensweb.com/2015/03/30/preview-dwell-designs-west-los-angeles-home-tour/ |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=Urban Gardens |language=en-US}}</ref> * 46142 Golden Rod Lane Palm Desert, CA (1951)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Jascha Veissi House |url=https://hspd.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/4.-The-Veissi-House.pdf |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=The Historical Society of Palm Desert}}</ref>

===Etchings=== * ''Burning of Clothes, Pinion Indian Reservation''. National Gallery of Art<ref name=":3" /> * ''Indian and Mexican Traders, Santa Cruz, New Mexico''. The de Young Museum, San Francisco, California<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Frederick Monhoff {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/frederick-monhoff-3382 |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=americanart.si.edu |language=en}}</ref> * ''Marriage Ceremony, Santa Clara, New Mexico''. The de Young Museum, San Francisco, California{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} * ''Oil Workers. National Gallery of Art<ref name=":3" />'' * ''Oil. National Gallery of Art<ref name=":3" />'' * ''Old Church, Zuni, New Mexico''. The de Young Museum, San Francisco, California{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} * ''Penitent Motive''. The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico<ref>{{Cite web |title=Penitent Motive |url=https://harwood.emuseum.com/objects/3303/penitent-motive |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=harwood.emuseum.com |language=en}}</ref> * ''Penitente Ceremony, Nambe, New Mexico''. The de Young Museum, San Francisco, California<ref name=":4" /> * ''Procession of St. Mary, Santa Fe, New Mexico''. The de Young Museum, San Francisco, California{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} * ''Wedding Procession.'' Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NEHMA {{!}} Collection - Wedding Procession, Cerilles, N.M |url=https://artmuseum-collection.usu.edu/objects-1/info/836?sort=0&objectName=Wedding%20Procession,%20Cerilles,%20N.M |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=artmuseum-collection.usu.edu}}</ref> * ''Worshippers at Cathedral, Santa Fe, New Mexico.'' The de Young Museum, San Francisco, California{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}}

===Illustrations=== * ''Time's Profile'', by Hildegarde Flanner with illustrations by Frederick Monhoff, first published by Macmillan Company (1929)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Flanner |first=Hildegarde |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Time_s_Profile/OvhIAAAAIAAJ?hl=en |title=Time's Profile |date=1929 |publisher=Macmillan |language=en}}</ref> * ''Valley Quail'', by Hildegarde Flanner with illustrations by Frederick Monhoff, first published by [[Ward Ritchie|The Ward Ritchie Press]] (1929)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hildegarde Flanner Papers, 1924-1984 – "Valley Quail", undated |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7m3nb2p6 |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=Online Archive of California, University of California}}</ref> * ''In Native Light'', by Hildegarde Flanner with illustrations by Frederick Monhoff, first published by James E. Beard (1970)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collection: An elegy for honor : poem {{!}} Finding Aids for Archival Collections |url=https://findingaids.lib.udel.edu/repositories/2/resources/390 |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=findingaids.lib.udel.edu}}</ref> * ''A Vanishing Land'', by Hildegarde Flanner with illustrations by Frederick Monhoff, first published by No Dead Lines (1980)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hildegarde Flanner Papers, 1924-1984 – "A Vanishing Land", undated |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7m3nb2p6 |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=Online Archive of California, University of California}}</ref> * ''Brief Cherishing: A Napa Valley Harvest'', by Hildegarde Flanner with illustrations by Frederick Monhoff, first published by John Daniel and Co. (1985)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hildegarde Flanner Papers, 1924-1984 – Brief Cherishing, A Napa Valley Harvest, 1985 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7m3nb2p6 |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=Online Archive of California, University of California}}</ref>

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