Frederick H. Reimers - Oakland

1961 ¹

Frederick Holberg Reimers (June 1, 1889 – July 11, 1961) was a prolific architect who designed at least two commercial buildings in Oakland, the Income Securities Building and the Franklin Building. He also designed residential structures in the hill areas, as well as at least three houses on Richmond Boulevard, including the fourplex at 3034-3040 Richmond Boulevard, and a house Mr. Reimers built for himself at 3054 Richmond Boulevard. He worked in a broad range of styles during his career, and he was known for "period revival" residential designs during the 1920s and 30s.

Reimers was born to noted landscape architect Johannes Reimers and artist Marie Arentz (Reimers).

He married Jane Howard (Reimers) on June 6, 1923, and they had one son, Frederick Holberg Reimers, Jr. ¹ They lived in Oakland from 1923, then later moved to Piedmont.

Reimers graduated from the University of California in 1915, and worked for Bernard Maybeck for a short time as a draftsman.

In 1927 he had an office in the Tribune Tower. In December 1927, he moved to a new, specially designed office at the top of the newly-completed Franklin Building. The 1928 directory lists Reimers as the vice president of the Finance Building Company, which owned the Franklin Building, also known as the Finance Building.

He later moved his office to San Francisco.

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836 Trestle Glen (built for E.G. Read c.1925)
769 Rosemount Rd. (built 1926)

In addition to buildings in Oakland, Reimers designed the Sigma Pi chapter house near UC Berkeley, the Howard Automobile Company Showroom in Berkeley (built for Charles Howard, owner of Seabiscuit; the building was later owned by Reggie Jackson), and a number of homes in Piedmont.