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Birth / Established: 1913
Death / Dissolved: 1918

Biography

This architectural firm included Edward Richardson and Arthur Yost and was in business from 1913 to 1918. Their offices were in the Rockefeller Building.

Building Name Address Built Status
Office Building and Theatre 15511 Waterloo Road, Cleveland, OH 1914 Standing
Heights Center Building 12429 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 1916 Standing
Laundry 3940 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1917 Demolished
Mechanics Laundry Lexington and East 47th Street, Cleveland, OH 1917 Demolished
Residence for Clarence Huber Lakewood, OH 1917 Unknown
Residence for D. J. Murphy Lakewood, OH 1917 Unknown
Birth / Established: 1905
Death / Dissolved: 1906

Biography

This architectural firm included Edward Richardson and William S. Watts and was in existence in 1905 and 1906.

Building Name Address Built Status
Apartment Building on Olive Street Olive Street, Cleveland, OH 1905 Demolished
Cleveland Twist Drill East 49th Street, Cleveland, OH 1905 Demolished
Birth / Established: 1903
Death / Dissolved: 1903

Biography

This architectural firm was formed by architects Edward Richardson and Lewis Thomas and was in existence in 1903.

Sources

Book of Clevelanders, p. 220
Cleveland City Directories
Cleveland City Directories
Progressive Men of Northern Ohio, p.

Birth / Established: June 26, 1895
Death / Dissolved: August 16, 1944

Biography

James Reese was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1917 he worked as a draftsman for the Austin Company. He was listed as an architect from 1928 until his death in 1944.

Building Name Address Built Status
Residence 2989 Glengary Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1923 Standing
Residence 2886 Kingsley Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1927 Standing
Residence 2917 Falmouth Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1927 Standing
Residence 3120 Kingsley Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1927 Standing
Ashwood Apartments 2828 South Moreland Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 1928 Standing
Residence 20001 South Woodland Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1928 Standing
Chester Burke Residence Unknown 1929 Standing
Harris Burrows Residence 2885 Carlton Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1930 Standing
Apartments 2661 North Moreland Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 1936 Standing
Apartment Building 2633 North Moreland Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 1937 Standing

Sources

Cleveland City Directories
Cleveland Necrology File
WW I Draft Registration

Birth / Established: August 7, 1888
Death / Dissolved: May 5, 1981

Biography

J. Elmer Reeb was born in Zelienople, Pennsylvania. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, obtaining a certificate in 1913. Before working with Philip Small he was a designer with Rutan and Russell (1914-15), Lee and Hornbostel (1916), A. H. Good (1917-18), and Bohnard and Parson (1920-1). He joined Small and Rowley in 1922. He was a member of the firm of Small, Smith, & Reeb. He lived in Lakewood and later in Rocky River. He was married to Bertha (Endres) Reeb, who died in 1968, and was the father of one son, Jay.

Birth / Established: May 12, 1871
Death / Dissolved: October 8, 1927

Biography

Reamer was the son of Oberlin merchant Chambers Reamer and his wife, the former Frances F. Cole, who married on May 5, 1868. They moved from Ohio to Birmingham in 1886, and also had a residence in Fort Payne. Daniel returned to his home town to attend classes at Oberlin College in the early 1890s. He moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1892 and worked for his uncle, Daniel P. Reamer, at the A. H. Andrews & Co. furniture store. In 1900 he helped organize a "T-Square Club" in Atlanta, Georgia. By 1901 he was operating an architectural practice in Birmingham. He relocated his practice to Chattanooga, Tennessee in June 1906 and assisted his father in the development of the "Reamer Place" residential neighborhood in Oberlin in 1908. Around 1909 he began practicing in Cleveland, Ohio, with his younger brother, Robert (best known as the designer of the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone National Park in 1904.)In 1924 Reamer returned south and resumed working in Birmingham and Chattanooga. He died in 1927.

Building Name Address Built Status
Louis Meyers Residence 16740 South Park Boulevard, Shaker Heights, OH 1910 Standing
Stephen Thompson Residence 2848 Hignland Avenue, Birmingham, AL 1910 Standing
Store and Apartment Building for S. H. Kleinman Realty Company 6705-09 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1911 Standing
Apartment Building for Louis Duchon 6929 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1912 Standing
Residence for Burke Construction Co. 2865 Brighton Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1918 Standing
Residence for Fred Burke 2924 Brighton Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1922 Standing
Thomas Wesley Graham Residence Oberlin, OH 1923 Standing
Birth / Established: December 30, 1876
Death / Dissolved: May 20, 1967

Biography

William Robert Powell was born and attended school in Radnor, Ohio. He attended Oberlin College and Case School of Applied Science, graduated from Columbia University in 1905, and received a degree in Fine Arts from the Sorbonne in Paris in 1907. According to City Directories, he settled in Cleveland in 1909, and earned a law degree at Western Reserve University in 1929. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the Hiram Lodge of the Masons at Delaware. He was listed as a registered architect in the November 1940 Ohio Architect. He retired in 1964 and died in 1967 at the age of eighty-nine in Delaware, Ohio. He was buried in Radnor.

Building Name Address Built Status
Price Wolf Clothiers Company 2125 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1914 Standing
Cleveland Public Library East 79th Street Branch, Cleveland, OH 1916 Standing
Six Residences Allendale Avenue, East Cleveland, OH 1918 Unknown
Ideal Company Department Store 59 Lincolnway East, Massillon, OH 1918-21 Standing
Cleveland Heights City Hall Mayfield Road, Cleveland, OH 1923 Demolished
Apartment Building for M. Berkoff 3411-5 East 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 1925 Demolished
Lorain Medical Building 11420 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1925 Standing
Residence 2904 Montgomery Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1927 Standing
Fire Station 3216 Silsby Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 1929 Standing
Fire Station 2595 Noble Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 1930 Standing

Sources

Cleveland City Directories 1909 - 1939
Coates, William R.; A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland; v. III, p.216-7; 1924 Chicago and New York : American Historical Society
Obituary Cleveland Press May 20, 1967
Who's Who in Ohio 1930 p 104
Image Source(s): Donn R. Nottage, City of Cleveland

Birth / Established: November 10, 1888
Death / Dissolved: May 17, 1958

Biography

J. Ellsworth Potter was born in Ashtabula. At sixteen he was the youngest county engineer in Ashtabula County. He was featured in an April 1912 issue of the Ohio Architect and Builder as the junior member of the Akron architectural firm of Haglock & Potter. He was a church and school architect with offices in Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Gary, Indiana. He was listed as a registered architect in the November 1940 Ohio Architect.

Building Name Address Built Status
Akron Towell and Supply Wabash Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1918 Standing
St. George Lithuanian Church 1380 East 67th Street, Cleveland, OH 1920 Standing
St. George Lithuanian School 6527 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1920 Standing
Ursuline Academy Euclid & Belmont, East Cleveland, OH 1923 Demolished
Commercial-Residential Building for P. J. McDermott 14921 Kinsman Road, Cleveland, OH 1926 Demolished
Residence 23074 Clifford Road, North Olmsted , OH 1940 Unknown
Residence for Edward J. Krajic 23181 Clifford Drive, North Olmsted, OH 1940 Standing
Residence for J. J. Daly 21481 North Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 1941 Standing
Sacred Heart of Jesus Chruch 4320 East 71st Street, Cleveland, OH 1949-51 Standing
Shrine of Our Lady of Mariapouch 17486 Mumford Road, Burton, OH 1950 Standing
St. Andrew Benedicat Abbey Addition 10510 Buckeye Road, Cleveland, OH 1950 Standing
St. Benedict Roman Catholic 2940 Martin Luther King Drive, Cleveland, OH 1950 Standing
St. Hyacinth Church 6106 Francis Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1950 Standing
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church 3522 Deodar Avenue, East Chicago, IL 1957 Standing
St. Mary of the Assumption Church 15519 Holmes Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1957 Standing
First Catholic Slovak Union 24960 Chagrin Boulevard, Beachwood, OH 1958 Standing

Sources

Cleveland Necrology file
Ohio Architect and Builder April 1912
Press May 26, 1958

Biography

J. Ellsworth Potter and Henry C. Gabele. In 1929 they had offices at 2077 East 4th Street, Room 805.

Building Name Address Built Status
St. John Cantius Church 2322 Professor Street, Cleveland, OH 1924-5 Standing
Birth / Established: April 23, 1807
Death / Dissolved: May 5, 1871

Biography

Simeon Porter was the son of Lemuel Porter. Upon his fathers death in 1829 he was named to succeed him as superintendent and he continued to design structures for Western Reserve College. He moved on to Cleveland in 1850 where he went into business with Charles Heard. That partnership lasted until 1859. When Porter again went into business for himself.

Building Name Address Built Status
Presidents House Western Reserve College, Hudson, OH 1830 Standing
Chapel Western Reserve College, Hudson, OH 1835-6 Standing
Athenaeum Western Reserve College, Hudson, OH 1843 Standing
Brecksville Congregational Church Brecksville, OH 1844 Standing
Christ Church Episcopal Hudson, OH 1846 Demolished
Lemuel Wick Residence 1051 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1851 Demolished
Second Presbyterian Church Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1851-2 Demolished
U. S. Marine Hospital East 9th and Lake Street, Cleveland, OH 1852-5 Demolished
Old Stone Church 91 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 1853-6 Standing
Central High School Cleveland, OH 1855 Demolished
Eagle Street School Cleveland, OH 1855 Demolished
Cleveland Orphan Asylum Cleveland, OH 1859 Demolished
Cottage Chapel St. Clair below E. 9th Street, Cleveland, OH 1860 Demolished
Mt. Union College - Chapman Hall 225 West Hartshorn Street, Alliance, OH 1862-4 Standing
Commercial Building for D. B. Saxton 1518-36 Merwin Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1863 Demolished
First Presbyterian Church 3645 North Main Street, Mineral Ridge, OH 1863-5 Standing
Brownell School 2222 East 14th Street, Cleveland, OH 1864 Demolished
First Congregational Church 47 Aurora Street, Hudson, OH 1865 Standing
Ladies Hall (Second) Professor and College Streets, Oberlin, OH 1865 Demolished
B. Harrington Residence Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1866 Demolished
Horace Kelly Residence 2063 East 55th Street, Cleveland, OH 1866 Demolished
Miller Hall Mt. Union College, Alliance, OH 1866 Standing
Orlando M. Barnes Residence 3133 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1866 Demolished

Sources

Johannesen, Eric Ohio History 1965 -Simeon Porter - Ohio Architect

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