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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

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Birth / Established: June 17, 1889
Death / Dissolved: November 16, 1951

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

Birth / Established: 1857
Death / Dissolved: 1900

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

Birth / Established: 1871
Death / Dissolved: January 31, 1948

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

Birth / Established: March 1851
Death / Dissolved: January 6, 1924

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

Birth / Established: 1795
Death / Dissolved: 1845

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

Birth / Established: 1824
Death / Dissolved: November 30, 1889

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

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Birth / Established: 1862
Death / Dissolved: February 27, 1945

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

Birth / Established: July 19, 1890
Death / Dissolved: March 11, 1976

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"