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Birth / Established: 1870
Death / Dissolved: January 1920

Biography

A Tennessee-born architect that worked for F. S. Barnum & Company from 1898 until 1902. He is listed as an architect in Cleveland City Directories from 1904 until 1919. In 1910 he was living with his parents at 1454 Ridgewood Avenue in Lakewood. He died in a possible accidental drowning in 1920.

Building Name Address Built Status
Church of the Transfiguration (St Hubert's Church) 8870 Baldwin Road, Kirtland Hills, OH 1892 Standing
Charles H. Miller Residence 11211 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1897 Standing
W. Ralph Horton Residence 10117 South Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 1907 Standing

Sources

City Directories 1904-1919

Birth / Established: June 20, 1888
Death / Dissolved: March 9, 1962
Building Name Address Built Status
Residence 2204 Ralph Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1929 Standing
Residence 2705 Portman Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1929 Standing

Sources

Cleveland City Directories
Ohio Architect November 1940

Biography

Samuel Hall and Vance Heberd.

Building Name Address Built Status
William H. Kelley Residence 1926 East 84th Street, Cleveland, OH 1892 Demolished
Birth / Established: 1918
Death / Dissolved: Unknown
Building Name Address Built Status
Columbia Metal Stamping & Die Co. Plant 11900 Harvard Ave, Cleveland, OH 1929 Standing
Birth / Established: 29 January 1869
Death / Dissolved: 19 June 1951

Biography

Perley Griffin was active as an draftsman and architect in Cleveland from 1912 until 1917. He is listed as living in San Diego, California in the 1920 census working as a draftsman.

Building Name Address Built Status
Van Dorn and Baer Residence 5807-11 Hawthorne Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1898 Demolished
Commercial Building addition Woodland Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1912 Standing
Duplex for Adeline Schultz 10403 Clifton Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 1918 Standing

Sources

1920 Census - San Diego, California
Cleveland City Directory

Birth / Established: April 24, 1821
Death / Dissolved: April 28, 1909

Biography

Carl H. Griese was born in Holstein, Germany and came to Cleveland in 1850-1. He worked as a mason and carpenter and gradually developed a business as architect and builder. In 1860 he was an officer of the Cleveland Board of Education. As one of the early contractors, he erected many of the mansions on Euclid Avenue. He went into partnership with Albert G. Weile that lasted until 1878. He was in business by himself until 1891 when he disappears from the Directory listings. Throughout his life in Cleveland he lived on Case Avenue (now East 40th Street). He had nine children. His sons David and Gottlieb were general contractors with the firm of D. & G. Griese.

Building Name Address Built Status
Immanuel Evangelical Church 2928 Scranton Road, Cleveland, OH 1879 Standing
St. Lorenz Lutheran Church 10145 West Tuscola, Frankenmuth, MI 1879-80 Standing
Commercial-Residential Building for Marie Theobald 4421 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1881 Demolished
Truman Dunham Residence Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1881 Demolished
Grand Army of the Republic Hall 3797-99 West 25th Street, Cleveland, OH 1889 Demolished

Sources

Avery; A History of Cleveland and its Environs: The Heart of New Connecticut, v. 3; Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1918
Cleveland Necrology file
Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and the City of Cleveland; Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1894, p. 275

Birth / Established: 1868
Death / Dissolved: 1879

Biography

Partnership of Carl Griese and Albert Weile, who began as masonry contractors and were later listed as architects. They worked for the City Schools, and designed many Lutheran Churches, both in Cleveland and throughout the country.

Building Name Address Built Status
Sixth Ward Schoolhouse Cleveland, OH 1866 Demolished
Zion Lutheran Church 2187 East 9th Street, Cleveland, OH 1866 Demolished
Eagle Street Synagogue Eagle Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1868 Demolished
Fifth Ward Schoolhouse Cleveland, OH 1868 Demolished
Philip Gaensslen Residence 3050 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1868 Standing
Stephen Buhrer Residence 4606 Franklin Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1868 Standing
Carlton Block 405-19 Woodland Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1869 Demolished
Commercial Building for John Warner 1958-1968 West 25th Street, Cleveland, OH 1869 Standing
Commercial Building for Paul Schmidt 111-5 West Prospect, Cleveland, OH 1869 Demolished
Holy Cross Lutheran Church 2650 Miami Avenue, St. Louis, MO 1869 Standing
Residence for James Shipherd 1002 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1869 Demolished
Cleveland Police Department - Second Precinct Station 2357 Rockwell Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1870-2 Demolished
Cleveland Police Department - Third Precinct Station East 37th Street near Woodland, Cleveland, OH 1870-2 Demolished
Trinity Lutheran Church Akron, OH 1871-2 Demolished
Greenville Hall at Thiel College College Avenue, Greenville, PA 1872-4 Standing
Building for the Carpenter Brothers 1277-81 West 6th Street, Cleveland, OH 1873 Standing
Trinity Evangelical Church 2057 West 30th Street, Cleveland, OH 1873 Standing
Case School Cleveland, OH 1875 Demolished

Sources

Image Source(s): Craig Bobby

Birth / Established: September 3, 1872
Death / Dissolved: April 8, 1962

Biography

708 Engineers Building

Building Name Address Built Status
Matt and Dora Horvat Residence 14214 Darwin Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1924 Standing
Birth / Established: September 27, 1874
Death / Dissolved: August 4, 1954

Biography

George Allen Grieble was born near Delaware, Ohio in September 1874. He went to the public schools in Delaware and attended Ohio Wesleyan University for two years. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War serving in Puerto Rico. Initially he worked for the state of Ohio as superintendent of construction, overseeing the construction of public institutions. In that position he oversaw the cottages at Xenia, the chapel of the Girls Industrial Home at Delaware, the Lancaster cottages on the Boys Farm, and chapel building. He completed a course in architecture from the International School of Correspondence.

Building Name Address Built Status
Hotel for A. Dreher and Sons Cleveland, OH 1907 Demolished
Harp Apartments 1389 West 64th Street, Cleveland, OH 1908 Standing
Residence for Samuel Morris 1794 Nichol Road, Cleveland, OH 1908 Standing
Saltsman Block 7813-23 Madison Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1908 Standing
Servants Quarters for the Euclid Doan Company 10124 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1908 Demolished
Alhambra Building & Theater for Euclid-Doan Co. 10317-10407 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1910 Demolished
Four and Two Story Commercial Building for the Euclid Huron Improvement Co. 1900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1910 Standing
Gordon Square Theatre 6405 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1911 Standing
Olympia Theatre 3337 East 55th Street, Cleveland, OH 1913 Standing
Apartment Building Euclid Avenue and E.100th, Cleveland, OH 1917 Demolished
Hotel for Perry Remick Ashtabula, OH 1917 Unknown
Office Building 1200 Huron Road, Cleveland, OH 1917 Demolished
Sloan Building 823 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1917 Standing
Store addition and alteration 710-2 Huron Road, Cleveland, OH 1917 Demolished
U.S. Tool W. 106th Street, Cleveland, OH 1917 Demolished
Residence for T. G. Sloan Kenilworth and Edgehill, Cleveland Heights, OH 1918 Demolished
Fidelity Building 1940 East 6th Street, Cleveland, OH 1919 Standing
CTS Building 1396 East 6th Street, Cleveland, OH 1920 Standing altered
Lincoln Building 616-750 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1920 Standing
Eton and Rugby Apartments 7338, 7448 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1925 Demolished
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Shops Lorain, OH n.d. Unknown
Cleveland Bottling Works Cleveland, OH n.d. Unknown
Doan and Dehr Blocks Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH n.d. Unknown
Jones Business Block Ashtabula, OH n.d. Unknown
Nickolls Apartment House Cleveland, OH n.d. Unknown
Pennfield Avenue Bank Lorain, OH n.d. Unknown
Retort Coke Oven Company Cleveland, OH n.d. Unknown

Sources

Orth, Samuel; A History of Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago - Cleveland - The S.J. Clark Publishing Company, 1910
Image Source(s): Donn R. Nottage

Birth / Established: 1919
Death / Dissolved: 1921

Biography

Principals: George A. Grieble and George A. Ebeling.

Building Name Address Built Status
Euclid-Seventy-First Building 7002-36 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1919-20 Standing
Commercial Building for Ben Folkman 1408-24 East 25th Street, Cleveland, OH 1925 Standing
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