Fritz Woehle

Fritz Woehle is an architect and the owner of The Garages, where the Garage Café is located. He purchased the former parking court and converted part of the space into his design office. The rest of the property was used for his growing collection of architectural fragments and antiques. The collection is now a centerpiece of the courtyard café.

Woehle is notable for his bold, modern and expressive designs. At the height of his career in the late 1950s and early 1960s he was a well-known figure in local design issues, weighing in against the demolition of the Birmingham Terminal Station, retrieving the Japanese Pavilion after the 1964 New York World's Fair for the Japanese Garden at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, and serving as president of AIA Birmingham in 1967. Woehle was the only local architect to enter the 1966 international competition to design the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center.

For his contribution to the profession, Woehle has been made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Notable buildings

• Pilgrim Congregational Church (now Pilgrim Church) (1959)
• Doctor's Center Building (1959)
• 3349 Brookwood Road (1963)
• Fritz Woehle residence (1963), featured in Architectural Record
• Higgins residence (1968), featured in Southern Living