Henry F. Starbuck

Henry F. Starbuck (1860 – 1935) was an American architect and a specialist in church architecture.

Henry Fletcher Starbuck was born on March 1, 1850, in Nantucket, Massachusetts and died on August 21, 1935 at Decoto, Alameda County, California. He was the son of Henry Starbuck and Abigail Borden. His father came to America as a cabin boy on a whaling ship from the Azores and later became a whaling captain, skippering the ships Franklin and Daniel Webster.

He completed his education in Boston and fulfilled his apprenticeship there under Harvard-educated architect Abel C. Martin (1831–1879). Following his apprenticeship, he formed a partnership in Boston with George A. Moore as Moore & Starbuck Architects in 1873, followed by a partnership with Arthur H. Vinal as Starbuck & Vinal in 1877. Leaving Boston, he relocated to New Brunswick for a short while and from there he spent several years in Chicago, Illinois and was briefly in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By 1894 he had established a practice in San Diego, California where he earned a reputation as a specialist in church architecture.

After working on a church building in Fresno in 1902, he relocated to Oakland, California where he built a flourishing practice. While practicing in Oakland, Starbuck formed a brief partnership with William Wilde which ended after a couple of years. After his well-publicized divorce he resettled in Fresno, California to rebuild his career and life in 1910. He retired at Decoto, now Union City, California.

He married as his first wife, on August 10, 1872, at Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Charlotte Elizabeth Noyes, born on August 10, 1850 at Abington, Massachusetts the daughter of Lewis Ellingwood Noyes and Lucy A. Briggs. She was an 1870 graduate of Mount Holyoke College and was a school teacher before her marriage in 1872. She was a descendant of Dr. Samuel Fuller, a passenger on the Mayflower and one of the Separatist settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. They were the parents of a son, Henry Walker Starbuck (1874–1948). This couple later divorced.

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