Marion Fresenius Fooshee

Who was Marion Fresenius Fooshee?

Marion Fresenius Fooshee was an American architect active in the Dallas, Texas area.

The architect's name has also been spelled as Marion Fooshe.

Marion Fooshee was Francis Marion and Margaret Christine Fooshee's only child. Marion was born in Weatherford, Texas and spent his early years in Corpus Christi, Texas. At age seven, Marion's father died while the family was living in Corpus Christi. In 1898 he and his mother moved north to Dallas where his mother established a boarding house at Live Oak Street and Haskell Avenue, in the current Bryan Place neighborhood. Fooshee spent the remainder of his youth there and attended Bryan High School, but did not go to college.

In 1911, Marion Fooshee was hired by H. B. Thompson to help design eclectic homes for the Dallas elite. Much of his designs are seen on Swiss Avenue and in the Munger Place historic district in east Dallas. Some of his important designs include the Aldredge House at 5500 Swiss Avenue, built in 1917, and homes for Charles Sanger and Judge George C. Greer.