Cleveland Architect Database
The Cleveland Architects Database is a listing of architects and master builders that have worked in Cleveland, since the 1820s and the buildings they designed here and abroad up to and including the 1970s. Sources include City of Cleveland Building Permits, professional publications including American Architect and Builder News, Inland Architect, Interstate Architect, the Ohio Architect and Builder, the Annals of Cleveland, the Plain Dealer, the Leader, the Press, Material Facts, the Bystander, and Cleveland Town Topics. Additional source material reviewed at the Cleveland Public Library Fine Arts Department, various books on Cleveland architecture, the American Institute of Architects Guide to Cleveland Architecture and a catalogue of architectural drawings maintained by the Western Reserve Historical Society were consulted. The Cleveland Necrology file maintained by the Cleveland Public Library, the United States Census, and Cleveland City Directories were reviewed in compiling accompanying biographies.
For this database, an architect is defined as anyone that identified himself or herself as an architect. Generally, these people had an office in the city or designed multiple structures here or in the immediate surrounding cities. This project began as a hobby by Robert Keiser over several years. Craig Bobby has researched many of the entries and donated photographs of those buildings. This is an ongoing project and will be updated on a regular basis. PLEASE NOTE: All entries have not been fully researched and require citations. Please confirm any unsourced entry
Architects
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Ebeling, George (architect)
Biography
George Ebeling was a West Virginia-born architect. In 1917 he was self employed as an architect with offices in the McClain Building in Wheeling, West Virginia. He would later move to Cleveland. He was a partner with George Grieble.
Sources
Necrology file
Edelmann, John (architect)
Biography
John Edelmann was born in Cleveland. He spent time in Cleveland, Chicago, and New York. In 1873 he went to work for William Le Baron Jenney, where he met Louis Sullivan. Politically radical, he helped form the Socialist League in New York. He was also an excellent free hand artist. In 1880 in Chicago Dankmar Adler hired him as an office foreman. Louis Sullivan was hired as a draftsman at Edelmann's suggestion. He returned to Cleveland in 1881 where he joined the firm of Coburn and Barnum as a foreman. He returned to Chicago to work in the office of S.S. Beman. During the late 1880's he was living in New York City. In 1894 he was in Forest Hill, New Jersey.
| Building Name | Address | Built | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilman Building | 301-7 St. Clair Avenue, NW, Cleveland, OH | 1881 | Standing |
| Stephens and Widlar Building | 321-31 St. Clair Avenue, NW, Cleveland, OH | 1881 | Demolished |
| Wilshire Building | Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1881 | Demolished |
Sources
Egbert, Donald and Paul Sprague "In Search of John Edelmann" AIA Journal February 1966
The Architects - Directory for 1894 Forest Hill, N.J.- 945 Aqueduct
Edwards, Arthur (architect)
Biography
Arthur C. Edwards was born in Lansing, Michigan. He was educated in public schools and completed a two-year course of technical training. He also apprenticed as a carpenter, and then engaged in contracting for ten years. The February 1915 edition of the Ohio Architect, Engineer and Builder had a lengthy article on his career. He left Cleveland in 1926. He moved to Toledo where he died in 1948.
| Building Name | Address | Built | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. B. Edwards Residence | Ann Arbor, MI | 1907 | Unknown |
| Apartment House for M. Levine | Gladstone and 51st, Cleveland, OH | 1907 | Altered |
| Apartment House for S. Kline | Sawtell Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1907 | Unknown |
| Commercial-Residential Building for H. G. Henderson | Chagrin Falls, OH | 1907 | Unknown |
| Levini Residence Addition | Sawtell Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1907 | Unknown |
| Residence of C. L. Biggs | 1274 West 108th Street, Cleveland, OH | 1907 | Standing |
| Charles Heer Residence | 1477 Arthur Avenue, Lakewood, OH | 1908 | Standing |
| Metzner Building addition | 1897-1905 West 25th Street, Cleveland, OH | 1910 | Standing |
| Edward G. Resch Residence | 1069 East 97th Street, Cleveland, OH | 1913 | Standing |
| Harry Kilpatrick Residence | 1639 Lincoln Avenue, Lakewood, | n.d. | Standing |
| M. S. Dennis Residence | 1460 Marlowe Avenue, Lakewood, OH | n.d. | Standing |
| T. G. Simmons Residence | 15709 Lake Avenue, Lakewood, OH | n.d. | Standing |
Sources
(Toledo) Blade 1.31.1948
Cleveland City Directories
Orth, Samuel; History of Cleveland, v. 2, p. 1119
Image Source(s): Craig Bobby
Eisenmann, John (architect)
Biography
John Eisenmann was born in Detroit and educated in Monroe, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1871. He served as the assistant United States engineer in the Lake Survey Service. He then went to Europe to study architecture, graduating from the Polytechnical School at Stuttgart. He then took a course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He came to Cleveland in 1878. In 1882 he accepted a position as professor of engineering at Case School of Applied Science. In 1887 he went into private practice. He was the landscape architect and superintendent of parks while Wade Park was improved and was the supervising architect for the Board of Education from 1883 until 1889. He supervised the construction of many local schools, as well as hospitals, churches, and other small public buildings in Pennsylvania and other states. He is best known as the architect, along with George Smith, of the Old Arcade, the stellar example of that building type in the country.He was appointed by Governor McKinley as member of the state house commission and was the architect of the Ohio Building at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo (1900). In 1903 Mayor Tom Johnson appointed him to a new building code commission.
| Building Name | Address | Built | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buhrer School | Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
| Duke School | Duke & Outhwaite, Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
| Dunham School | Dunham & Lexington , Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
| Lincoln School | 2520 E.83rd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
| Marion School | Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
| West High School | Bridge and Randall, Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
| Zion Lutheran Church | Monroe, MI | 1883 | Demolished |
| Lincoln School | 2520 East 83rd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1883-1900 | Demolished |
| Brownell School | Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1884 | Standing |
| Clark School | Cleveland, OH | 1884 | Demolished |
| Sibley (Jane Addams School) | 4940 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1884-5 | Demolished |
| Case School of Applied Science (demolished) | Cleveland, OH | 1885 | Demolished |
| Stanard School | 5360 Stanard Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1885 | Standing |
| Boston Township School | 1775 Main Street, Penninsula, OH | 1887 | Standing |
| East Madison School | 1130 Addison Road, Cleveland, OH | 1889 | Demolished |
| John Eisenmann Residence | 1801 East 79th Street, Cleveland, OH | 1889 | Demolished |
| Joseph Turner and Sons Manufacturing | 5932 Broadway rear, Cleveland, OH | 1889 | Demolished |
| Commercial Building for Erastus Cushing | 115-7 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1890 | Demolished |
| Residence for John O. Ensign | 1966 East 82nd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1890 | Demolished |
| The Arcade | 401 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1890 | Standing |
| Warehouse for Henry & Betsy Cushing | 2040 East 3rd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1890 | Demolished |
| Ohio Masonic Home | 2655 West National Road, Springfield, OH | 1890-2 | Standing |
| William Taylor and Sons | Cleveland, OH | 1891 | Demolished |
| Cleveland Dorcas Home for Sick and Destitute Women | 1380 Addison Road, Cleveland, OH | 1891-2 | Demolished |
| Addition to commercial building for the Bradley Estate | 1279-83 West 3rd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1892 | Demolished |
| Alterations to commercial building for Weber, Lind & Hall | 70-74 Public Square, Cleveland, OH | 1892 | Demolished |
| Commercial Building for Bradley Estate | 1279-83 West 3rd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1892 | Demolished |
| Powerhouse and 5 story commercial building for Bradley est 47 x 195 $22,000 | Cleveland, OH | 1892 | Demolished |
| Commercial-Residential Building for John Stofft | 10307-9 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1893 | Demolished |
| Kinsman School Addition | Cleveland, OH | 1894 | Demolished |
| Miranda Apartments for Davis Hawley | 2609 East 48th Place, Cleveland, OH | 1895 | Demolished |
| Warehouse for Morris Bradley Trustee | 21 Noble, Cleveland, OH | 1896 | Demolished |
| Jackson Street School | Painesville, Painesville, OH | n.d. | Standing |
| Addition and alteration to Louis P. Smith Residence | 7200 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1897 | Standing |
| Childrens Ward fpr City Hospital | 3345 Scranton Road, Cleveland, OH | 1897 | Demolished |
| E.R. Hull & Dutton Building | 2025 Ontario Steet, Cleveland, OH | 1897 | Standing |
| West Side Library (Cinecraft) | 2515 Franklin Blvd., Cleveland, OH | 1897 | Standing |
| Esmond Apartments | 4806 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1898 | Standing |
| Farmers and Drovers Stock Yard Co | SS CCC & St. Louis RR WS Gordon, Cleveland, OH | 1898 | Demolished |
| Tenement for C.W. Collister | 1168 Euclid, Cleveland, OH | 1898 | Demolished |
| Brick store and dwelling for Guardian Trust | Cleveland, OH | 1899 | Demolished |
| Ohio Building | Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, NY | 1900 | Demolished |
| Three story dry goods for H.K. Cushing | Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1901 | Demolished |
| Wagner Manufacturing | Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1901 | Demolished |
| Conrad Thoma Reisdence | 2357-9 Payne Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1902 | Demolished |
| Light Manufacturing Building for Maurice & Ignatz Stone | 1213 Wesr 6th Street, Cleveland, OH | 1902 | Standing |
| Alterations to the Arcade for Cleveland Arcade Company | 341-411 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1903 | Standing |
| Cleveland, Frog & Crossing | Cleveland, OH | 1903 | Demolished |
| Commercial-Residential Building for William Buse | 629-31 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1903 | Demolished |
| Pardee Residence | 10220 Clifton Boulevard, Cleveland, OH | 1903 | Standing |
| Commercial Buildng for Pabst Brewing | Vincent Street, Cleveland, OH | 1904 | Demolished |
| Factory Building for Victory Oil | 1530 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1904 | Standing |
Sources
Building Arts #6 5-6, June 13, 1932
Cleveland City Directories
Cleveland Necrology file 1.6.1924
Plain Dealer March 29, 1903
Image Source(s): Craig Bobby
Eldredge, Hezikah (architect)
Biography
Hezikah Eldredge was born in Salisbury, Connecticut and spent his youth in Weedsport, New York. He had moved to Rochester, New York in 1829 where new carpentry opportunities existed after the opening of the Erie Canal. Following his first wife's death in 1834 he remarried and moved to Ohio City, which was also experiencing growth with the opening of the Ohio and Erie Canal. At Ohio City he established a shop and lumberyard.
| Building Name | Address | Built | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Presbyterian Church | Rochester, NY | 1825 | Demolished |
| Bank of Genessee | Cleveland, OH | 1831 | Demolished |
| Cleveland Centre Block of Stores (demolished) | Cleveland, OH | 1834-6 | Demolished |
| St. John's Episcopal Church | 2905 Church Street, Cleveland, OH | 1835 | Standing |
| U.S. Bank of Buffalo Buffalo, New York | Cleveland, OH | 1836 | Demolished |
| Vineyard Lane Bridge | Cleveland, OH | 1845 | Demolished |
| Holland Land Office | Cleveland, OH | n.d. | Demolished |
Sources
Hezekiah Eldredge Family MSS #4652
WRHS Manuscript Collection
Eldridge, Luther (architect)
Biography
Eldridge served in the Civil War prior to arriving in Cleveland. He was a First Lieutenant in Company C, 33rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry. He first appears in the City directories in 1866 in his own practice through 1874 before a partnership with Charles L. Wyman from 1875-1877. He was back on his own from 1878 until his death in 1889 when he died in Congress Township, Wayne County.
| Building Name | Address | Built | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Beverlin Residence | 2901 Clinton Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1869 | Standing |
| Ely Block | 401-7 Broad Street, Elyria, OH | 1873 | Unknown |
| Body Block | 1803-17 Cedar Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1881 | Demolished |
| Olmstead Falls Town Hall | Olmstead Falls, OH | 1882-3 | Demolished |
Sources
Image Source(s): Craig Bobby
Elliot, John (architect)
Biography
John H. Elliot was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada of American born parents. He arrived in Cleveland with Wilm Knox in 1888. He handled the design aspects for the firm. In Cleveland he lived at 1573 East 93rd Street. He retired to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1925, where he died in 1945.
Sources
Book of Clevelanders, p.156
Cleveland City Directories
See Knox & Elliot
Wilm Knox designed Many Big Buildings Telegraph Republican October 14, 1915
Everhard, Junior (architect)
Biography
Junior W. Everhard was a South Dakota-born architect. He was a 1913 graduate of Hiram College and also received degrees from Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania. He worked for the Miami Valley Conservation District in Dayton, Ohio in the late teens. In 1930 he lived at 9213 Clifton Boulevard, later moving to 6824 Forview Road in Brecksville. He was a member of the Cleveland Kiwanis Club, the YMCA, the Cleveland Engineering Society, the American Institute of Architects, and an elder of Franklin Circle Christian Church. He died in St. Luke's Hospital and is buried in Hiram Cemetery in Hiram, Ohio.
| Building Name | Address | Built | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residence | 11508 Lake Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1924 | Standing |
| Triumph the Church Addition | 9200 Miles Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1930 | Standing |
| Heights Christian Church | 17300 Van Aken Boulevard, Shaker Heights, OH | 1933 | Standing |
| Hiram College Gymnasium | Hiram, OH | 1935 | Unknown |
| Sterling J. Orchard Residence | 234 Logan Street, Bedford, OH | 1935 | Standing |
| Hiram College Dormitory for Men | Hiram, OH | 1940 | Unknown |
| Towslee School | 3555 Center Road, Brunswick, OH | 1956 | Standing |
Sources
PD 3.12.1976 "J.W. Everhard is dead, self employed architect"