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Birth / Established: March 1866
Death / Dissolved: June 30, 1943

Biography

Frederick Hodges was a member of the firm of Hodges & Hodges, with his brother W. W. Hodges. After the firm broke up, he went into business for himself. In 1910 the Cleveland City Directory lists him as a salesman in Olmsted Falls. The 1920 census lists him as a farmer living in Burton, Geauga County, Ohio. The 1930 census shows him living at 12109 Buckingham and employed as an architect.

Building Name Address Built Status
Apartment House for H. M. Brainard Cheshire St, Cleveland, OH 1903 Demolished
Keyse Residence 1708 Wooster Road, Rocky River, OH 1903 Standing
Loew Supply and Manufacturing West Madison Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1903 Demolished
Mt. Vernon Apartment House 2043 East 71st Street, Cleveland, OH 1903 Demolished
Charles Roehl Residence 1724 Clark Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
Joseph Reitz Residence 3045 West 14th Street, Cleveland, OH 1904 Standing
Residence for Mrs. Miller Euclid Heights, Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
Commercial Building Lorain and W. 28th Street, Cleveland, OH 1905 Demolished
William Hall Residence 1344  Edanola, Cleveland, OH 1905 Standing
G. A. Weitz Residence 10405 Lake Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1908 Standing
Residence for Minnie Malden 9914 South Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 1908 Standing
Charles H. Loew Residence 15407 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, OH n.d. Demolished
E. L. Emerson Residence 18128 Clifton Boulevard, Lakewood, OH n.d. Standing

Sources

Cleveland City Directories

Birth / Established: 1900
Death / Dissolved: 1902

Biography

This was a short lived partnership of brothers William W. Hodges and Frederick Hodges, that was in existence in 1900.

Building Name Address Built Status
Apartments and Store for George W. Kinsey 5605 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1900 Standing
Residence for Mrs. J.F. McHenry 1860 East 24th Street, Cleveland, OH 1900 Demolished
Marietta Apartment House 10621 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1901 Standing
Thomas Manning Residence 11210 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1901-2 Standing

Sources

Cleveland City Directories
Image Source(s): Craig Bobby

Birth / Established: August 14, 1872
Death / Dissolved: January 11 1920

Biography

Willard Hirsh was born in Syracuse, New York. He worked for Ernest Flagg of New York City and later, when in Cleveland, he worked for Charles Schweinfurth. In December 1895 he formed a partnership under the name Steffens, Searles & Hirsh (1895-1901). Later partnerships were Searles & Hirsh (1902-4) and Searles, Hirsh, & Gavin (1905-1910). From 1910 until his death he was in practice for himself. He lived at 1838 Rosemont in East Cleveland. He died of pneumonia on January 11, 1920 and is buried in Lake View Cemetery.

Building Name Address Built Status
Truman Building 1022 - 26  Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1911 Standing
Frederick Building 2057-63 East 4th Street, Cleveland, OH 1912 Standing
Residence 2277 Stillman, Cleveland Heights, OH 1912 Standing
Fortieth Apartments 2021 East 40th Street, Cleveland, OH 1913 Standing
Sincere Building 2077-9 East 4th Street, Cleveland, OH 1913 Standing
Apartment Building for Euclid Logan Realty 9513 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1914 Demolished
Apartment Building for the United Improvement Company 3147 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1915 Standing
Residence 2862 Fairmount , Cleveland Heights, OH 1916 Standing
Residence 3100 Fairmount, Cleveland Heights, OH 1916 Standing
Telephone Exchange 6338 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1916 Standing
Alliance City Hospital 207 East Union Street, Alliance, OH 1917 Demolished
Cleveland Trust St. Clair Branch addition, Cleveland, OH 1917 Demolished
Huron Road Hospital East Cleveland, OH 1917 Unknown
Office Building for United Alloy Steel Georgetown Road, Cleveland, OH 1917 Demolished
Residence for Charles Bradley Chagrin Falls, OH 1917 Unknown
Residence for H. Tutem Cleveland Heights, OH 1917 Demolished
Residence for H. Tuteur Oakwood Club District, Cleveland, OH 1917 Unknown
School addition Shaw Avenue, East Cleveland, OH 1917 Unknown
United Alloy Steel Factory and Office Canton, OH 1917 Unknown
Residence for Jno. Sprowl 13128 Euclid Avenue, East Cleveland, OH 1918 Standing
Residence for Mrs. Chester Blog 2257 Overlook, Cleveland Heights, OH 1919 Unknown
Residence for Mrs. Margaret Mael 2256 Delaware, Cleveland Heights, OH 1922 Unknown

Sources

Cleveland Necrology file
Inland Dec. 1895
Image Source(s): Craig Bobby

Birth / Established: July 15 1879
Death / Dissolved: November 6, 1934

Biography

Reynold Hinsdale was born and educated in Utica, New York. He received architectural training in the New York School of Art. In New York City, he was associated with the firm of Clinton & Russell. He came to Cleveland about 1904 and was associated with J. Milton Dyer at some time. He established an office in Cleveland in the Erie Buiding. He resided at 2924 Corydon Road in Cleveland Heights. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects and was listed as a registered architect in the November 1940 Ohio Architect listing. He died in Lakeside Hospital and is buried in Knollwood Cemetery.

Building Name Address Built Status
Glenville Presbyterian Church Addition 711 East 105th Street, Cleveland, OH 1911 Standing
Residence 9212 Kempton, Cleveland, OH 1912 Standing
Residence 9214 Kempton, Cleveland, OH 1912 Standing
Residence 9218 Kempton, Cleveland, OH 1912 Standing
Residence 9222 Kempton, Cleveland, OH 1912 Standing
Residence of Mr. Newton B. Wall 2928 Sedgewick Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1913 Standing
Eisler Residence Cleveland Heights, OH 1917 Demolished
Elyria Telephone Exchange Elyria, OH 1917 Demolished
Madison Public Library Madison, OH 1917 Demolished
Residence 2345 Roxboro Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 1917 Standing
Syracuse Railway Terminal Syracuse, NY 1917 Demolished
Factory for Ohio Investment Company 9408 St. Catherine, Cleveland, OH 1918 Demolished
Gebauer Chemical Company East 93rd and Union, Cleveland, OH 1918 Standing
Residence for E. M. Mohrman Cleveland, OH 1918 Standing
Residence 2950 Attleboro Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1922 Standing
Park Lane Villa 10518 Park Lane, Cleveland, OH 1922-3 Standing
Apartment Building for Joseph Baskin 8024 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1925 Standing
H. L. Haines Residence 3275 Ingleside Road, Shaker Heights, OH 1927 Standing
Commercial-Residential Building for Andrew Lazar 3719-21 Fulton Road, Cleveland, OH 1928 Standing
Residence Mayfair Subdivision - Croydon Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 1929 Unknown
Harry Frankel Residence 2964 Courtland Blvd, Shaker Heights, OH 1930 Standing
Agudath B'nai Israel Temple 845-65 Reid Avenue, Lorain, OH 1931 Standing
Fenway Apartments Cleveland, OH n.d. Standing
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church 146 High Street, Wadsworth, OH n.d. Standing
Residence 16700 Parkland, Cleveland, OH n.d. Unknown
Residence for J. Crawford, Jr. Stillman Road, Cleveland Heights, OH n.d. Unknown
Residence for J. Fish 3001 East Overlook, Cleveland Heights, OH n.d. Unknown
Residence of C.R. Megath Lakewood, OH n.d. Unknown
St. Ann's Church Cleveland, OH n.d. Demolished

Sources

Cleveland City Directories
Withey Biographical Dictionary of Architects, p. 289
Image Source(s): Craig Bobby

Birth / Established: August 22, 1846
Death / Dissolved: April 29, 1893

Biography

L. Allen Heard was the son of Charles Heard. He was in business with his father, at the end of his career, in the firm Heard and Son. After his father's death in 1876 Allen formed a partnership with George H. Smith. That firm lasted until Heard moved to Denver, Colorado in 1881. He died in a drowning accident in 1893 in Colorado. His remains were found on July 11th.

Sources

Cleveland City Directories

Birth / Established: 1806
Death / Dissolved: August 29, 1876

Biography

Charles W. Heard was born in Onondaga, New York. He settled in Painesville and learned the carpentry trade. He married Carolyn Goldsmith, daughter of Master Builder Jonathan Goldsmith in 1830. They moved to Cleveland in 1833, about the time the Ohio and Erie Canal opened and Cleveland experienced its first substantial population and economic growth. It soon passed Painesville in population and opportunity. The first city directory in Cleveland in 1837 lists Charles Heard as a carpenter and joiner. The 1845 directory listed him as a Master Builder. In 1846 and 1847 he was in partnership with carpenter Warham Warner. The 1850 City Directory shows him in the firm of Heard and Porter, architects and builders. That partnership lasted until 1864. He formed a partnership with his son-in-law Walter Blythe that lasted from 1866 to 1871. From 1871 to the end of his life in 1876 he was the principle in the firm of Heard and Sons, when his sons Lucas Allen and Charles W. Heard Jr. joined the firm. He was active in the community serving as a member of the Board of Education and the Board of Alderman.He lived at 32 Euclid Street. His wife Caroline died on January 9, 1851. They had eight children; the youngest, Lucas Allen, was five when she died. By 1870 the census showed that his real estate was valued at $80,000 and that his seven adult children and two servants were living with him on Euclid Avenue. He died in 1876 leaving the unmarried children use of his home for seven years.

Building Name Address Built Status
St. Paul's Church 340 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1848-51 Demolished
Merchants Bank of Cleveland 512 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1849 Demolished
Payne Residence 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1849 Demolished
Perry & Payne's Block Superior & West 9th, Cleveland, OH 1855 Demolished
Lake Erie Female Seminary Painesville, OH, Painesville, OH 1857 Standing
Remodeling of the Merwin House 3028 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1858 Standing
Case Hall 233 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1859-67 Demolished
Salem Union School Fourth Street and School Salem, OH, Salem, OH 1860 Demolished
Case Block Cleveland, OH 1863 Demolished
Eagle Street School 610 Eagle Street, Cleveland, OH 1864 Demolished
Rockwell School Cleveland, OH 1864 Demolished
Jennings Place 436 Casement, Painesville, OH 1872 Standing
Euclid Avenue Opera House 2025 East 4th Street, Cleveland, OH 1875 Demolished
Addition to engine house #11 Heard and Son Cleveland, OH 1876 Demolished
Ohio House - Centennial Exhibition Philadelphia, PA 1876 Standing
Crittenden Residence NE corner Ontario and Public Square, Cleveland, OH n.d. Demolished
Merwin Residence Rockport, Cleveland, OH n.d. Demolished
New England Hotel Cleveland, OH n.d. Demolished
Starkweather Residence Lake and West 9th Street, Cleveland, OH n.d. Demolished

Sources

"Recollections of Cleveland - Her Builders and Buildings" Magazine of Western History January 1888, v. 7 #3, p. 253 - 265
Hitchcock, Elizabeth G., Charles W. Heard (1808-1876) Architect: His Buildings in Cleveland and Painesville- Historical Society Quarterly - Lake County, Ohio February 1967, v.9, #1
Image Source(s): Kathy Lent

Birth / Established: 1871
Death / Dissolved: 1876

Biography

This was an architectural firm that was formed by Charles Heard and his son L. Allen Heard. It was in existence from 1871 until the death of Charles Heard in 1876.

Building Name Address Built Status
Arlington Block Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1874 Demolished
Birth / Established: 1876
Death / Dissolved: 1880

Biography

Heard and Smith was an architectural firm active in Cleveland in the 1879 and 1880. The firm included L. Allen Heard, the son of Charles Heard who died in 1876, and George H. Smith. The firm had some important commissions including the Willson Avenue Baptist Church, the Hurlbut Chapel in Massillon, and the Idaka Chapel.

Building Name Address Built Status
Hurlbut Chapel 37 Second Street, Massillon, OH 1879 Demolished
Willson Avenue Baptist Church 2393 East 55th Street, Cleveland, OH 1879 Standing
Church Cleveland, OH 1880 Demolished
Four story commercial building on Heard estate Cleveland, OH 1880 Demolished
Idaka Chapel Prospect and Kennard Street, Cleveland, OH 1880 Demolished
Wilson Dodge Residence Dodge Street, Cleveland, OH 1880 Demolished

Sources

Cleveland City Directories
Cleveland Necrology File

Birth / Established: 1850
Death / Dissolved: 1861

Biography

This was an architectural firm that was formed by Charles Heard, originally from Painesville and Simeon Porter from Hudson. Created in 1850 the firm existed until 1859, when it was dissolved. At that time both architects went into independent practice.

Building Name Address Built Status
St. Paul Church Euclid Avenue & East 4th, Cleveland, OH 1851 Demolished
Second Presbyterian Church Superior Avenue and East 3rd Street - Heard and Porter, , OH 1852 Demolished
Central High School East 9th Street, Cleveland, OH 1855 Demolished
H.B. Hurlburt Residence 3233  Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1855 Demolished
Mason Residence Euclid Avenue Near Railroad Tracks, Cleveland, OH 1855 Demolished
Old Stone Church 91 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 1855 Standing
Zenas Kent Residence 1369 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1855-9 Demolished
Atwater Block 903-1015 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1856 Demolished
St. Peter's Church 1701 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1857 Standing
Converse Block 1521 Merwin, Cleveland, OH 1859 Demolished

Sources

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

Birth / Established: 1866
Death / Dissolved: 1871

Biography

This was an architectural firm that was formed by Charles Heard and his son in law Walter Blythe. It existed between 1866 and 1871.

Building Name Address Built Status
St. James Episcopal Church Painesville, OH 1866 Standing
Hudson School (later Sterling School) East 30th & Carnegie, Cleveland, OH 1868 Demolished
St. Clair School Cleveland, OH 1868 Demolished
Clara Morris School Cleveland, OH 1869 Demolished
Mayflower School Solon Near Newburgh, Cleveland, OH 1869 Demolished
St. Mary Methodist Episcopal Church 4324 Woodland Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1870 Demolished
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