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Birth / Established: March 7, 1861
Death / Dissolved: October 31, 1921
Building Name Address Built Status
East Madison Avenue Congregational Church 2385 East 79th Street, Cleveland, OH 1888 Demolished
Birth / Established: June 7, 1844
Death / Dissolved: May 1, 1920

Biography

John R. Shengle was from Richland County, Ohio. He was listed as both an architect and contractor in Cleveland City Directories.

Building Name Address Built Status
Park Congregational Church 11119 Ashbury Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1892 Demolished
Residence for John Schmidt 6506 Scovill Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1894 Demolished
Robert Butler Residence 1415 East 85th Street, Cleveland, OH 1894 Standing
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church 6805 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1895 Demolished
Commercial-Residential Building for Cynthia Darrall 10521-10601 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1900 Demolished
Army and Navy Hall Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH n.d. Demolished

Sources

Cleveland : The Forest City Illustrated (1893), p. 179
Cleveland City Directories
Cleveland Necrology File

Birth / Established: 1891
Death / Dissolved: 1894

Biography

This architectural firm included John B. Shengle and John A. Dolman. The firm was active from 1891-1894.

Building Name Address Built Status
John W. Dolman Residence 2098 East 93rd Street, Cleveland, OH 1891 Demolished
Lemuel S. Potwin Residence 1687 East115th, Cleveland, OH 1891 Demolished
Residence for J. T. Kirkwood 1696 Crawford, Cleveland, OH 1891 Demolished
Residence for T. S. Knight 2059 East 90th Street, Cleveland, OH 1891 Demolished
Jennie Brooks Residence 1616 East 86th Street, Cleveland, OH 1892 Demolished
Lecturer Lodge and Rooms for the Army and Navy Hall Co. 726 Rockwell Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1892 Demolished
C. A. Burwell Residence 2074 East 96th Street, Cleveland, OH 1894 Demolished

Sources

Cleveland : The Forest City Illustrated (1893), p. 179
Cleveland City Directories
Cleveland City Directories
Cleveland Necrology file
Cleveland Necrology File

Birth / Established: February 17, 1882
Death / Dissolved: July 21, 1952
Building Name Address Built Status
Dwelling Alt. and Porch addition for H. Lubin 1412 East 57th Street, Cleveland, OH 1913 Demolished
Dwelling Alt. and Porch addition for Kramer and Kravitz 2407 East 49th Street, Cleveland, OH 1913 Demolished
Residence for Atkins Bros. 2376 East 59th Street, Cleveland, OH 1915 Demolished
Residence for Nozik Bros. 11614 Parkhill Ave, Cleveland, OH 1915 Demolished
Residence for Nozik Bros. 11614 Parkhill Ave, Cleveland, OH 1915 Demolished
Birth / Established: August 27, 1869
Death / Dissolved: May 16, 1947

Biography

Paul C. Searles was born in Wellington, Ohio, the son of a Methodist minister. His first job was with W.H. VanTine Realty Company. According to the 1890 census he was in real estate. His firm built the first modern apartment building in Cleveland at East 17th Street and Euclid Avenue. In 1908 he helped design and later re-built the ill-fated Lake View School in Collinwood after the famous fire. He was a Mason and a member of the Woodward Lodge. In 1918 he resigned from the architectural firm and helped organize the India Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, where he was secretary treasurer until his retirement in 1928. He died in Clearwater, Florida on May 16, 1947.

Sources

Paul C. Searles, Builder, is Dead; Plain Dealer; May 17, 1947
see Stephens Searles & Hirsh

Birth / Established: 1905
Death / Dissolved: 1910

Biography

This architectural firm included Paul Searles, Willard Hirsh, and Donald Gavin.

Building Name Address Built Status
J. H. Rodier Residence Clifton Park, Cleveland, OH 1905 Demolished
Residence for William Herron Woodland Hills, Cleveland, OH 1905 Demolished
Masonic Temple 216-8 Middle Avenue, Elyria, OH 1905-6 Demolished
Albert Doan Residence 17231 Lake Avenue, Lakewood, OH 1906 Standing
Residence for Frederick Bruch 11130 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1906 Demolished
The Reserve Trust Co Woodland Branch E.55th and Woodland, Cleveland, OH 1906 Demolished
Two apartment buildings Payne and E.19th, Cleveland, OH 1906 Demolished
Louis Bing Residence 11327 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH 1906-7 Demolished
East Cleveland town hall remodelling East Cleveland, OH 1907 Demolished
School Bellefontaine, OH 1907 Unknown
Terrace for E. B. Merriam Unknown 1907 Demolished
Ten-room school Youngstown, OH 1908 Unkown
Terrace for C. Z. Zettlemeyer Riverside Near West Madison, Cleveland, OH 1908 Demolished
Twelve-room school Collamer Road, Collinwood, Cleveland, OH 1908 Demolished
Warehouse for the Economy Realty Co Broadway, Cleveland, OH 1908 Demolished
Cuyahoga Telephone Company 1839 East 81st Street, Cleveland, OH 1909 Standing
School Building Columbiana, OH 1909 Unknown
Swetland Building 1010 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1910 Standing

Sources

see Stephens Searles & Hirsh

Birth / Established: 1901
Death / Dissolved: 1905

Biography

This architectural firm included Paul Searles and Willard Hirsh and was in existence from 1901 until 1905. Their offices were in the Electric Building.

Building Name Address Built Status
Alhambra Apartment Building 8604-28 Wade Park Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1901 Standing
C.E. Newell Residence 1113 Forest, Cleveland, OH 1901 Demolished
Charles H. Church Residence 18131 West Clifton, Lakewood, OH 1901 Standing
Franklin Apartments 5601-5 Franklin, Cleveland, OH 1901 Demolished
Plaza Apartments 3206 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1901 Standing
Six Hundred Apartments 2344 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1901 Standing
The Cary Apartment Building 1538-56 Payne Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1901 Demolished
Paul North Residence 17848 Lake Avenue, Lakewood, OH 1902 Standing
Apartment Building Genesse & Euclid, Cleveland, OH 1903 Demolished
English Woolen Mills Company Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1903 Demolished
First National Bank Columbiana, OH 1903 Demolished
First National Bank Wellsville, OH 1903 Demolished
National Bank Kenton, OH 1903 Demolished
O.F. Transue Residence 1251 South Union Avenue, Alliance, OH 1903 Standing
Col W.H. Morgan Residence - "Glagmorgan" 1025 South Union, Alliance, OH 1903-8 Standing
Apartment Building East 88th Street, Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
Apartment Building East 93rd and Edmunds, Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
Apartment Building 1648-54 East 93rd Street, Cleveland, OH 1904 Standing
Com block for Thorman Estate Woodland and E.37th, Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
Commercial Building Willson North of Manhattan Apartment Bldg, Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
Homeier Brothers Automobile Repair Shop 1755 Crawford Road, Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
Interior work of the New England Restaurant Park Building, Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
John Vorel Residence 3315 East 55th Street, Cleveland, OH 1904 Standing
Residence for Charles Babcock Brookfield Street, Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
Shaw High School 15236 Euclid Avenue, East Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
Stables for the Electric Package Company Bolivar, Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
Apartment Building for P.H. Keevan East 88th, Cleveland, OH 1905 Demolished
Commercial Building Euclid Near East 116th, Cleveland, OH 1905 Demolished
Dixon Hall - Apartment Building for Max Littwitz 3820 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1905 Standing
Forest City Bank Building 1400 West 25th Street, Cleveland, OH 1905 Standing
Residence and stable for Western Realty West Hudson Street, Cleveland, OH 1905 Demolished

Sources

See Stephens Searles & Hirsh

Birth / Established: November 9, 1842
Death / Dissolved: February 25, 1917

Biography

Levi Tucker Scofield (nee Schofield) was born in Cleveland and was raised in a home on Euclid Avenue near East 9th Street. His family later operated the Prospect Place Hotel on the site after which it became the location of the Schofield Building, which he designed. Levi Scofield attended Cleveland public schools, pursuing the study of architecture and engineering. At some point, he dropped the "H" from his name. In 1860 he moved to Cincinnati. He served in the Ohio 113th Infantry, rising in the rank to First Lieutenant and Captain. He wrote "The Retreat from Pulaski to Nashville, Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864" which was published in 1909. After the war he returned to Cleveland. In 1867 he married Elizabeth C. Wright, who was prominent in local society and philanthropic circles. She was president of the YWCA, the Phyllis Wheatley Association, and organized the Cleveland Vocal Society. Levi Scofield is remembered as the architect of large Victorian era institutions that included the Asylum for the Insane in Athens and Columbus, Ohio, the North Carolina Penitentiary, the Ohio Penitentiary in Mansfield, and the Cleveland House of Corrections. His firm designed five Cleveland Public Schools between 1869 and 1883. He devoted seven and a half years, without compensation, to the Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Sailors Monument, and contributed over $57,000 of its total cost. He was the first Cleveland architect taken into membership in the American Institute of Architects and was a friend and golfing partner of John D. Rockefeller. Scofield was the sculptor of "These are my Jewels," a Civil War Monument installed at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, later moved to the grounds of the Ohio State Capitol. The Schofield Office Building on the southwest corner of Euclid and East 9th Street, built in 1900, was built on the Schofield homestead and was originally owned by Levi Scofield. He had two sons, William Marshall Scofield (1868-1942) and Sherman Wright Scofield (1876-1942) who became members of his architectural firm. The Scofields were members of First Baptist Church and are buried in Lake View Cemetery.

Building Name Address Built Status
Unitarian Church Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1867 Unbuilt
Asylum for the Insane 100 Ridges Circle, Athens, OH 1868 Standing
Orchard School 4201 Orchard Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1869 Demolished
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home Administration Building 690 Home Avenue, Xenia, OH 1869 Standing
Cleveland House of Correction 7706 Woodland Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1869-70 Demolished
Building for J. M. Waters 33-35 North Chestnut, Jefferson, OH 1870 Standing
Asylum for the Insane 1960 West Broad Street, Columbus, OH 1870-7 Demolished
North Carolina Penitentiary (Central Prison) 1300 Western Avenue, Raleigh, NC 1870-84 Demolished
Joseph W. Britton Residence 7817 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1875 Demolished
Central High School 2200 East 55th Street, Cleveland, OH 1878 Demolished
Rufus K. Winslow Residence 2409 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1878 Demolished
Walton School 3427 Fulton Road, Cleveland, OH 1879-80 Demolished
Alfred P. Girty Residence 3407 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1880 Demolished
Tracy Block 305 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1880 Demolished
Orin Booth Residence (Dr. James Craig Residence) 55 North Mulberry Street, Mansfield, OH 1880-1 Standing
Broadway School 7910 Broadway, Cleveland, OH 1881 Demolished
Grand Arcade 408 West St. Clair Street, Cleveland, OH 1882 Standing
Cuyahoga County Courthouse addition 1401 West 3rd Street, Cleveland, OH 1884 Demolished
George and Olivia Stockley Residence 2343 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1884 Demolished
U.S. Post Office Expansion Cleveland, OH 1884 Demolished
Ohio State Reformatory (Mansfield Reformatory) 100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield, OH 1886 Standing
Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Sailors Monument 3 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 1886-94 Standing
Warehouse for F. M. & C. R. Chandler 515-19 Huron Road, Cleveland, OH 1891 Demolished
Civil War Monument "These are My Jewels" 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 1893 Standing
Bank and Office Building for S. J. Smith 219-21 Main Street, Conneaut, OH 1894 Standing
Case Library Alteration 235 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1894 Demolished
Scofield Residence 2438 Mapleside Road, Cleveland, OH 1898 Standing
Schofield Building 2000 East 9th Street , Cleveland, OH 1901 Standing
YWCA 1710 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1906-8 Standing
Stevenson and Ella Burke Residence 4811 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1882-3 Demolished
William Corlett Residence 1953 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1882-5 Demolished

Sources

"Levi T. Scofield Removed by Death" Plain Dealer February 26, 1917
"Mrs. Scofield Dies, Leader of Women" Plain Dealer January 8, 1914
"Mrs. L.T. Scofield YWCA Head Dies" Leader January 3, 1914
Book of Clevelanders (1914) p.234-5
Member AIA - 1894 Directory
Orth, Samuel; A History of Cleveland, Ohio (1910), p. 768 - 771
Image Source(s): Pat Harris, Cleveland Artworks, CPL Digital Collection

Birth / Established: September 20, 1858
Death / Dissolved: September 29, 1931

Biography

Born in Auburn, NY, he began his career with Peabody and Stearns. In 1884 he became a partner with his brother, Charles, in Cleveland. The following year he opened an office in Boston where he designed several public buildings and school buildings in Boston, Cleveland, and Youngstown, as well as buildings on the campuses of Wellesley and the University of Illinois.He was married to Mary Frances Bellows in 1889 and was the father of one son, Charles. He died in1931 and is buried at Walnut Hills Cemetery, Walnut Hills, MA.

Building Name Address Built Status
John H. Ammon Esq. Residence 1639 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1881 Demolished
Birth / Established: 1883
Death / Dissolved: 1886

Biography

Architectural firm of brothers Charles and Julius Schweinfurth.

Building Name Address Built Status
Alice & Sylvester T. Everett Residence 4111 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1883 Demolished
Henry C. Holt Residence 1208 Kenilworth Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1883 Demolished
Old Stone Church Interior 91 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 1883 Standing
Orville B. Skinner Residence 2164 East 55th Street, Cleveland, OH 1883 Demolished
James Salisbury Residence 589 East 88th Street, Cleveland, OH 1883-5 Demolished
N. S. Possons Residence 1929 East 40th Street, Cleveland, OH 1884 Demolished
Central Presbyterian Church Addition 17 Williams Street, Auburn, NY 1886 Standing

Sources

Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of the City of Cleveland and Environs: A Half Century Progress 1836 - 1886; International Publishing, New York

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