Frederick V. Murphy (1879–1958) was an American architect and architectural educator. He was in practice in Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1954. He was best known for his work for the Catholic church and as the founder and director of the Catholic University School of Architecture and Planning from 1911 to 1949. Professional and academic career Frederick Vernon Murphy was born February 16, 1879, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin to John Vernon Murphy and Alice (McCue) Murphy. In the 1880s the family moved to Chicago, where Murphy attended the public schools, graduating from North Division High School in 1897. He received further instruction at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the former Chicago Athenæum before being appointed as teacher of freehand drawing in the Chicago schools. In 1899 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he joined the staff of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. In 1905 he was awarded the traveling scholarship of the Washington Architectural Club, which enabled him to travel extensively in Europe. While in Paris Murphy took the entrance examinations of the École des Beaux-Arts, and was admitted to the school. In 1909 he was awarded a diplôme and he returned to the Supervising Architect in Washington. In 1911 Murphy and a colleague, Walter B. Olmsted, left the Supervising Architect to open their own firm, Murphy & Olmsted. They quickly gained a reputation as architects of buildings for the Catholic church. They designed numerous parish churches, buildings for Catholic University and the building of the Apostolic Nunciature to the United States and were associate architects with Maginnis & Walsh of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Their connections to the Supervising Architect led to several commissions for federal buildings during the first years of the Great Depression, including the United States Post Office in Wellsville, New York and the L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building in Greensboro, North Carolina, both completed in 1933. In the 1930s Olmsted's health declined, and he gradually withdrew from practice. He died in 1937. In 1940 Murphy formed a new partnership, Murphy & Locraft, with Thomas H. Locraft. They remained associated until Murphy retired from practice in 1954. Late works of Murphy's career include the Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial in France, completed posthumously in 1960. Locraft continued the practice as Murphy & Locraft until 1957 and thereafter as Thomas H. Locraft Associates. Locraft died