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Charles R. Weatherhogg, born April 15, 1872, in Donington, Lincolnshire, England, trained at the Art Institute of Lincoln and came to Fort Wayne in 1892–93. After a brief stint with Wing & Mahurin, he practiced in partnership with Alfred Grindle from about 1893 to 1897 — the Jasper County Courthouse of 1897 is theirs — and then built the largest architectural practice in the city. His Fort Wayne buildings include North Side High School and Central High School, the Journal Gazette Building, the Masonic Temple (about 1925), the Blackstone Building, Fairfield Manor (1927–28) and the Irene Byron Sanatorium; ARCH, the city's architecture-preservation group, also credits him with the Anthony Hotel and the Keenan Hotel, including — per ARCH — an Anthony Hotel collaboration with Chicago's Louis Sullivan in 1907. He helped draft Fort Wayne's building code in 1926.
The National Register nomination for Fairfield Manor describes Weatherhogg as, in effect, the single most important architect working in Fort Wayne from about 1910 to 1928. He died in October 1937; the exact day is reported inconsistently in the sources.
Sources: ARCH, Inc. (Fort Wayne); National Register of Historic Places nominations, Fairfield Manor and Rensselaer Carnegie Library; ACGSI.