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Birth / Established: May 8, 1880
Death / Dissolved: September 12, 1954

Biography

William Stanley Ferguson was an architect, engineer, and inventor who was born in St. Thomas, Ontario and educated in the Cleveland Public Schools. He invented two-rope ore digging buckets, and the Ferguson Reinforced Dock, used throughout the United States. In 1906, he was a Civil Engineer for the Carey Construction Co. in East Cleveland. He became the President of the W. S. Ferguson Company in 1910. From 1924 to 1929 he was the Director of Public Service for the City of Cleveland, President and General Manager of the Memphis Hy-Lands Company, the Roland Realty Company, the Roland Improvement Company, the Weona Realty Company, and Steemoil Burner Company. He was Vice President of the Dock and Terminal Engineering Company. He was on the board of directors of the National Town and Country Club. He lived at 26151 Lake Shore Boulevard in 1930. His office was in the 1900 Euclid Building. He is listed as a registered architect in the November 1940 Ohio Architect list.

Building Name Address Built Status
Industrial Building for Orient Realty 6815 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1913 Demolished
Lennox Furnace Company Marshalltown, IA 1913 Unknown
Six Story Office Building for the Union Building and Improvement Company (Union Building) 1836 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1913-4 Standing
Commercial Building for Ernest Shimmelman 15112 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1914 Demolished
C. H. Conners Dancing Academy 6445 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1915 Standing
Grant Motor Car Company 12819 Coit Road, Cleveland, OH 1916 Standing
Factory for Mason Tire and Rubber 705 Lake Street, Kent, OH 1917 Demolished
Welfare Building restaurant Hydraulic and East 61st, Cleveland, OH 1917 Demolished
Additions and Alterations for Grant Motor Car Company Findlay, OH 1918 Unknown
American Fireproof Storage Euclid and East 123rd, Cleveland, OH 1918 Demolished
Commercial Building for Standard Drugs 2785 - 95 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH 1918 Demolished
Henry and Catherine Hand Hospital Shenandoah, IA 1918 Unknown
Cleveland Motor Sales Company 3950 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1919-20 Standing
Cresswell Building 1220-6 Huron Road, Cleveland, OH 1920 Standing
Textile Building Company 2502-54 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1920 Standing
Commercial Building for Templar Realty 6820 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1921 Demolished
Craig Motor Company 3800 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1921 Standing
Lakewood Fireproof Storage 14401 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, OH 1922 Standing
Commercial Building 2000 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1923 Demolished
Medical Centre Building 1001 Huron Road, Cleveland, OH 1923 Standing
Commodore Apartments 10401 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1924 Standing
Jay Hotel 2515 Jay Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1924 Standing
Ohio Buick 1900 East 24th Street, Cleveland, OH 1925 Standing
Betty Burke Building Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 1927 Standing
Liquid Carbonic Corporation 1318 West 58th Street, Cleveland, OH 1929 Standing
Avon Lake Theatre 33487  Lake Road, Avon Lake, OH 1949 Unknown

Sources

Cleveland City Directories
Cleveland Necrology file - September 11, 1954
Rook Building Souvenir Book of Cleveland 1921
Who's Who in Ohio 1930, p. 48

Birth / Established: 1907
Death / Dissolved: 1907

Biography

This architectural firm was formed by Harry Ferguson and James Cameron. It was only listed in the 1907 Cleveland City Directory.

Building Name Address Built Status
Terrace Wade Park near Addison, Cleveland, OH 1907 Demolished

Sources

Cleveland City Directories 1905 - 1939
Cleveland Necrology file - October 30, 1963
Orth, Samuel; A History of Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago - Cleveland - The S.J. Clark Publishing Company, 1910, p. 102

Birth / Established: March 31, 1850
Death / Dissolved: February 25, 1915

Biography

1892 CCD - Civil Engineer and Architect, room 68, 155 St. Clair1894 CCD - Architect, 155 St. ClairIn Cleveland ca. 1889-1896; Moved to Pittsburgh

Building Name Address Built Status
Factory Buildings for Walker Manufacturing Company 1200 and 1230 West 58th Street, Cleveland, OH 1890 Partially Demolished
Factory Buildings for Van Wagoner & Williams 5151 & 5217 Hamilton Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1891 Demolished
Factory for Van Wagoner & Williams 5123 Hamilton Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1892 Demolished
Foundry for Van Wagoner & Williams 5127 Hamilton Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1892 Demolished

Sources

Cleveland Illustrated 1893
Image Source(s): Craig Bobby

Birth / Established: January 28, 1876
Death / Dissolved: April 6, 1954

Biography

Daniel Farnam was educated at Buchtel College, and the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. From 1901 until 1910 he was a draftsman at various Cleveland architectural offices. He worked as a draftsman and Supervising Engineer for Hubbell & Benes from 1910 unitl 1920. While with Hubbell and Benes he was the supervising engineer and contract manager for the Masonic Temple from 1920 until 1922. He worked as the construction engineer for Union Trust from 1922 until 1924. In 1924 he opened an office. In 1929 he was associated with architect Ralph E. Lawrence and occupied offices at 977 The Arcade.

Building Name Address Built Status
Masonic Building 3800-08 West 25th Street, Cleveland, OH 1926 Standing
Archwood Avenue Congregational Church 2800 Archwood Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1928 Standing

Sources

Steps: A Manual for Pastors and Building Committees, Daniel Farnam, AIA, Cleveland, OH, 1929.

Biography

See also Daniel Farnam entry.

Building Name Address Built Status
Archwood Congregational Church 2800 Archwood Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1929 Standing
Birth / Established: 1902
Death / Dissolved: 1915

Biography

Frank J. Felkel, Frank R. Felkel Jr and D.J. Felkel. -404 Marshall Building, 1914 CCDBased out of Pittsburgh, branch office in Cleveland in 1914; PD April 26, 1914

Birth / Established: July 19, 1890
Death / Dissolved: March 11, 1976

Biography

Junior W. Everhard was a South Dakota-born architect. He was a 1913 graduate of Hiram College and also received degrees from Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania. He worked for the Miami Valley Conservation District in Dayton, Ohio in the late teens. In 1930 he lived at 9213 Clifton Boulevard, later moving to 6824 Forview Road in Brecksville. He was a member of the Cleveland Kiwanis Club, the YMCA, the Cleveland Engineering Society, the American Institute of Architects, and an elder of Franklin Circle Christian Church. He died in St. Luke's Hospital and is buried in Hiram Cemetery in Hiram, Ohio.

Building Name Address Built Status
Residence 11508 Lake Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1924 Standing
Triumph the Church Addition 9200 Miles Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1930 Standing
Heights Christian Church 17300 Van Aken Boulevard, Shaker Heights, OH 1933 Standing
Hiram College Gymnasium Hiram, OH 1935 Unknown
Sterling J. Orchard Residence 234 Logan Street, Bedford, OH 1935 Standing
Hiram College Dormitory for Men Hiram, OH 1940 Unknown
Towslee School 3555 Center Road, Brunswick, OH 1956 Standing

Sources

PD 3.12.1976 "J.W. Everhard is dead, self employed architect"

Birth / Established: 1862
Death / Dissolved: February 27, 1945

Biography

John H. Elliot was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada of American born parents. He arrived in Cleveland with Wilm Knox in 1888. He handled the design aspects for the firm. In Cleveland he lived at 1573 East 93rd Street. He retired to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1925, where he died in 1945.

Sources

Book of Clevelanders, p.156
Cleveland City Directories
See Knox & Elliot
Wilm Knox designed Many Big Buildings Telegraph Republican October 14, 1915

Birth / Established: 1824
Death / Dissolved: November 30, 1889

Biography

Eldridge served in the Civil War prior to arriving in Cleveland. He was a First Lieutenant in Company C, 33rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry. He first appears in the City directories in 1866 in his own practice through 1874 before a partnership with Charles L. Wyman from 1875-1877. He was back on his own from 1878 until his death in 1889 when he died in Congress Township, Wayne County.

Building Name Address Built Status
John Beverlin Residence 2901 Clinton Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1869 Standing
Ely Block 401-7 Broad Street, Elyria, OH 1873 Unknown
Body Block 1803-17 Cedar Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1881 Demolished
Olmstead Falls Town Hall Olmstead Falls, OH 1882-3 Demolished

Sources

Image Source(s): Craig Bobby

Birth / Established: 1795
Death / Dissolved: 1845

Biography

Hezikah Eldredge was born in Salisbury, Connecticut and spent his youth in Weedsport, New York. He had moved to Rochester, New York in 1829 where new carpentry opportunities existed after the opening of the Erie Canal. Following his first wife's death in 1834 he remarried and moved to Ohio City, which was also experiencing growth with the opening of the Ohio and Erie Canal. At Ohio City he established a shop and lumberyard.

Building Name Address Built Status
First Presbyterian Church Rochester, NY 1825 Demolished
Bank of Genessee Cleveland, OH 1831 Demolished
Cleveland Centre Block of Stores (demolished) Cleveland, OH 1834-6 Demolished
St. John's Episcopal Church 2905 Church Street, Cleveland, OH 1835 Standing
U.S. Bank of Buffalo Buffalo, New York Cleveland, OH 1836 Demolished
Vineyard Lane Bridge Cleveland, OH 1845 Demolished
Holland Land Office Cleveland, OH n.d. Demolished

Sources

Hezekiah Eldredge Family MSS #4652
WRHS Manuscript Collection

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