Frederick and his Sister Carrie both attended North Missouri State Normal School  in Kirksville during the 1870's.  

Normal School (Now Truman State University) was the first Missouri-supported institution of higher education established for the primary purpose of preparing teachers for public schools.   The original building , shown here, was destroyed by fire in 1924.  Currently Baldwin Hall sits where the original bell tower had been.  

Sometime in 1886 Stoddard was hired as a staff artist for the Louisville KY Courier-Journal.  This must have been a temporary venture as there's little mentioned about him in Louisville after that year.   

The Courier - Journal Jul 4, 1886

In the late 1880's  Frederick Stoddard partnered with William W. Davis in an interior decorating  business designing and dressing everything from windows, to walls, to furniture in homes and commercial buildings.   According to The Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter (Summer 2007) Davis reportedly, had no background in the arts but likely handled the business end of things.  

Commercial and Architectural St. Louis by Dumont Jones & Co - 1891 , pp 203

St. Louis Post-Dispatch  Nov 3, 1889 

In the late 19th century businesses began recognizing that while men were usually the breadwinners of the household, the women actually did most of the household shopping and thereby made decisions about where that money would be spent.  When  B. Nugent & Bro. Dry goods built their store at the corner of Washington and Broadway downtown, they boasted their new reception & waiting rooms "for the comfort and pleasure of our lady customers".  

Stoddard and Davis were commissioned to paint a decorative frieze in these rooms to compliment the paint, molding work, and decorative accents throughout.  

In 1890  Stoddard & Davis were selected to design a piece for the Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois (Now Lewis and Clarke College).  A life size figure of St. Cecelia that measures 6'9" wide and 9'8" tall and contains nearly 10,000 pieces.  The work was hung in the Eleanor Reid Memorial Chapel in memory of the late wife of the Seminary's founder.  

St. Louis Post Dispatch - Oct 25, 1891   

This is a scan of an original sketch done by Frederick Stoddard that's currently housed at the Central Library in the Fine Arts department.    No documentation or information was given about this sketch, Just the scan.     However, we've located an article in The Buffalo Courier from 1896 that states this was a sketch of work that was shown at the Paris Salon  at Champs Elysees.   

 The Odeon was the home of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra played until 1927.   The image below shows them on stage during a performance in 1922. After the St. Louis Symphony moved out of the Odeon Theater it became a destination for Vaudville acts as well as a moving picture theater.

  In July, it was announced that Douglas University, a college for Negroes, would be opening in St. Louis, and would open their headquarters on the 3rd floor of the Odeon building.   +

St. Louis Post-Dispatch - July 31, 1935

J C Richardson Mausoleum 

Photo courtesy of Missouri Digital Heritage - in a church bulletin from December 27, 1903

 After the death of President McKinley in 1901, the community began taking up a collection for a Memorial painting to be displayed in the new Highschool bearing his name that would be opening after the close of the world's fair.  They would eventually collect the $2500 needed to pay famed mural artist, Frederick Stoddard to execute the Mural.   It was unveiled in September 1904 before a crowd of over 4000 guests.  

St. Louis Post Dispatch - Sep 21, 1904 

This photo is dated in the 1930's (Courtesy of the Missouri History Museum)   

This photo is dated April 14, 2011 showing the Mural was still in place at that time.  (Courtesy of foursquare.com)    According to Historical and Interesting places in St. Louis (1909),  the mural measured at 28 feet in length, and was 7 feet tall.   

Photo courtesy of the Missouri History Museum Library

The Hotel Jefferson opened on April 29, 1904 to serve visitors expected from all over the world attending the Louisiana Purchase Exposition that year. 

Photo courtesy of the Missouri History Museum Library

In May of 1905, Frederick and Henrietta Stoddard broke the news to their friends that they had planned to leave St. Louis for New York City, a move that Stoddard anticipated would further elevate his name in the art world.   His friends at the St. Louis Artists' Guild decided to throw him a formal farewell dinner.    The image below of the invitation to a farewell dinner for the Stoddards by the his friends at the St. Louis Artists Guild' was provided by the St. Louis Central Library  - Rare books and Manuscripts room.

When Stoddard was interviewed by a journalist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in October of 1905 he stated that being the only artist in St. Louis who devotes themselves entirely to Mural painting left him feeling unchallenged.  Despite receiving $3000 (equal to over $101,000.00 in 2022) in commission to paint the mural at Yeatman High School, Stoddard believed that there was not enough mural work in St. Louis to provide more than the "comfortable living" he had maintained for himself and his wife.     

An article in "From the Stacks", a Blog of the New York Historical Society states:   "The Hebrew Technical School for girls, located at 2nd Ave and East 15th St in Manhattan was established in 1880 to increase employment opportunities for immigrant Jewish girls through courses in stenography, typewriting, and penmanship" .  

In 1908 a new mural by Frederick Stoddard was presented to the school called "Womanhood".    

  This window is said to be dated circa 1912, was designed by Fredrick Stoddard for St. Michael's Episcopal.  A Romanesque style church of dark brownstone that was built in 1890 at  Church located at 225 West 99th Street, New York, NY 10025.  The inscription (according to an article in Christian Science Monitor from June 28, 1913) reads "a cup of cold water in my name".

In commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Eastern District High School of Brooklyn, NY, a panel entitled "The Fountain" was installed in May of 1926.   The panel is intended to typify free education, the fountain of wisdom flowing freely to all who care to draw.  The attached clipping was provided courtesy of the artist files at Central Library downtown St. Louis, MO. 

Stoddard back a 4rd time,  2 years later,  to produce a mural in the rotunda depicting the impact of electricity on our daily lives.   This clipping  from the Nashville Tennessean - Jan 18, 1928 was provided courtesy of the artist files at Central Library downtown St. Louis, MO. 

The Sawyer Free Library is housed in the original Saunders House located in Gloucester and Boston's North Shore.  The house was built in 1764 by Thomas Saunders, a Representative to the Massachusetts General Court and local Merchant.  Later, in 1884 it was deeded to the community by Samuel Sawyer as a public library.    

In 1934,  as part of the WPA Federal Art Project, Frederick Lincoln Stoddard, with the assistance of Howard Curtis,  was commissioned to paint murals on  over 1000 square feet of the interior walls of the library.   The Federal Art Project was designed to create jobs for artists and give the public free access to original works of art throughout the country.    

The Murals are titled  “Scenes of the Region,” depicting life in early days of Gloucester's farms and miles of beautiful shoreline.  

Frederick Stoddard produced prints of his Louisiana Purchase paintings for FRISCO Railroad calendar.   The only photos located online were from a 1901 calendar, so these must have been a re-print after a previously successful run with them. 

 Stoddard sketched the many intricate illustrations for Marching through Georgia by Fenwick Y. Hadley in 1890 depicting scenes of every-day life of General Sherman's army from the beginning of the Atlanta Campaign until the close of the war in 1865.    Full view of this book courtesy of HathiTrust ---> Here 

 Louise Ivory Moore's book published in 1897 features several illustrations by Frederick Stoddard as well as other St. Louis artists, including Paul Conoyer.    Full view of this book courtesy of Hathi Trust -- >   Here 

 Mary E. Wilkins - Freeman was a popular American Novelist and author of short stories.  The Steeple is one of those stories that was featured in Hampton's Magazine in 1911 .  Full view of this book courtesy of Googlebooks ---> Here