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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, 1843
Death / Dissolved: November 17, 1905

Biography

Joseph Ireland was a New York City-born architect that practiced in Cleveland between 1865 and 1885. Prior to coming to Cleveland in 1865 he was associated with R. G. Hatfield in New York City. He was one of the finest architects in Cleveland in the post Civil War era. In Cleveland, he had several very important commissions, including the Geauga County Courthouse in Chardon, the National City Bank and Society for Savings Bank buildings, and several significant churches including the Case Avenue Presbyterian, Plymouth Congregational Church, and the First Presbyterian Church in Warren. He moved back to New York City in 1885. He died in 1905 after a lingering illness at his residence at 494 4th Street in Brooklyn.

Building Name Address Built Status
Anson Stager Residence 3813 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1866 Standing
Franklyn Alcott Residence 4820 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1866 Demolished
Society for Savings 137 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 1866 Demolished
National Bank Building 814-26 Superior Avenue, N. W., Cleveland, OH 1866-7 Demolished
Charles Bissell Residence 4611 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1867 Demolished
Geauga County Courthouse 100 Short Court, Chardon, OH 1869 Standing
School Liberty Street, Warren, OH 1869 Standing
Henry B. Perkins Residence 391 Mahoning, N. W., Warren, OH 1870 Standing
School High Street, Warren, OH 1871 Demolished
The Retreat 4912 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1872 Demolished
John Devereaux Residence 3226 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1873 Standing
Beckwith Memorial Presbyterian Chapel 2023 East 107th Street, Cleveland, OH 1873-4 Demolished
Monroe Street Cemetery Gateway 3201 Monroe Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1873-4 Standing
Town Hall Remodeling Chagrin Falls, OH 1874 Standing
Daniel Eels Residence 3201 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1876 Demolished
Home for Aged Women 2206 East 46th Street, Cleveland, OH 1876 Demolished
First Presbyterian Church 256 Mahoning Avenue NW, Warren, OH 1878 Standing
Second Presbyterian Church 2947 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1878 Demolished
Case Avenue Presbyterian Church 2123 East 40th Street, Cleveland, OH 1880 Demolished
Plymouth Congregational Church 2151 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1880 Demolished
Terrace for I. B. Hubby 2095-2103 East 36th Street, Cleveland, OH 1880 Demolished
W. J. Wickham Residence Huron, OH 1880 Unknown
Block for E. I. Baldwin 1251-7 West 6th Street, Cleveland, OH 1881 Demolished
Adelbert Hall 2040 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, OH 1881-2 Standing
First Baptist Church 23 S Fullerton Street, Montclair, NJ 1891 Standing
First Baptist Church 265 West 79th Street, New York City, NY 1891 Standing
Tabernacle Baptist Home for Young Women 2nd Avenue and 10th Street, New York City, NY 1893 Demolished
Montclair Childrens Home 121 Gates Avenue, Montclair, NJ 1894 Demolished
Moritz Joseph Residence (Educational Alliance) 2104 Woodland Avenue, Cleveland, OH n.d. Demolished

Sources

1880 census
Cleveland City Directories
New York City Directories

Birth / Established: October 7, 1884
Death / Dissolved: April 20, 1949

Biography

Clarence Izant was an architect and engineer who worked for the Austin Company. While there, he designed the original unit for Nela Park. He later went into private practice where he designed the East 70th Street plant for Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company. He left Cleveland in 1916 and became works manager for the Corning Glass Company in Corning, New York. In 1923 he moved to Los Angeles where he headed his own company, the Cochran-Izant Company. He served as president of the California Artist's Club and had many exhibitions of his etchings. He died in 1949 in Whittier, California and is buried in Nordhoff Cemetery, Ojai, California.

Building Name Address Built Status
Double Residence for Miss Anna Granger Scranton Road, Cleveland, OH 1907 Demolished
Cleveland Packard Showroom 5100 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1915 Standing
Southern Theater 3145 West 25th Street, Cleveland, OH 1915 Demolished

Sources

California Death Records Index
Cleveland City Directories
Necrology file