Todd Tibbals (1910 - March 22, 1988) was an American architect who was active in the
Columbus, Ohio area in the middle part of the twentieth century.
Early years
Tibbals was born in 1910 to a successful engineer and entrepreneur,
Charles E. Tibbals (1872–1961). His father was a professional mining engineer and manager of the
Royal Elkhorn Coal Company of
Prestonsburg, Kentucky. In 1923 the family moved to
Columbus where Tibbals' father pioneered in the candy vending business.
Education
Tibbals attended the
Ohio State University, where he was a hard working student. When assigned a task to draw part of a house, Tibbals would draw the entire house and notate the drawing with
Tibbals Does It Again. His instructors, finding this presumptuous, would give him hell
Interview with Paul Snouffer, July 1, 2006, by George C. Campbell, Worthington, OH. Tibbals graduated in 1932.
Architecture career
Tibbals began practicing architecture in
Columbus, Ohio in 1935. By 1939 he had designed his own home at 995 Woodhill Drive in
Grandview Heights, Ohio, which was featured in the November 1940
Better Homes and Gardens magazine:
He established an office at the corner of 15th Avenue and High Street and named his firm Todd Tibbals and Associates. Tibbals and his associate
Noverre Musson both won Architects Society of Ohio awards in 1942 for private residences they designed. Musson was a fellow Ohio State Graduate, and had studied for two years under
Frank Lloyd......
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