Frederick H. Trimble

Frederick H. Trimble was an American architect in Central Florida from the early 1900s through the 1920s. He worked in the Colonial Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival and Prairie Style.

Buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places include:

Frederick Homer Trimble was born on June 2, 1878 and died Aug 13, 1934. His parents were Andrew Hill Trimble and Cynthia Ann Wright. Fred was one of their thirteen children: ten boys and three girls.

Frederick Homer Trimble graduated from Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, and was appointed by the Methodist Church to serve as the first industrial missionary to Foochow, China in 1905, putting to use his schooling in architecture and civil engineering. While on furlough, he married Rena Nellie Bowker, who then also went to China as a missionary in 1906. While in China Trimble served as superintendent of construction of Hwa Nan College, the Woman's College of South China.

Trimble began his architectural career in the United States in Fellsmere, Florida. He helped pioneer the use of the Spanish Colonial Revival style, well suited to the Florida environment, in the mid-1910s (for example Farmer’s Bank in Vero Beach, 1914). The style saw a national surge in popularity following the exposure it received at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego of 1915.

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