Eisenmann, John
Biography
John Eisenmann was born in Detroit and educated in Monroe, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1871. He served as the assistant United States engineer in the Lake Survey Service. He then went to Europe to study architecture, graduating from the Polytechnical School at Stuttgart. He then took a course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He came to Cleveland in 1878. In 1882 he accepted a position as professor of engineering at Case School of Applied Science. In 1887 he went into private practice. He was the landscape architect and superintendent of parks while Wade Park was improved and was the supervising architect for the Board of Education from 1883 until 1889. He supervised the construction of many local schools, as well as hospitals, churches, and other small public buildings in Pennsylvania and other states. He is best known as the architect, along with George Smith, of the Old Arcade, the stellar example of that building type in the country.He was appointed by Governor McKinley as member of the state house commission and was the architect of the Ohio Building at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo (1900). In 1903 Mayor Tom Johnson appointed him to a new building code commission.
Building Name | Address | Built | Status |
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Buhrer School | Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
Duke School | Duke & Outhwaite, Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
Dunham School | Dunham & Lexington , Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
Lincoln School | 2520 E.83rd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
Marion School | Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
West High School | Bridge and Randall, Cleveland, OH | 1883 | Demolished |
Zion Lutheran Church | Monroe, MI | 1883 | Demolished |
Lincoln School | 2520 East 83rd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1883-1900 | Demolished |
Brownell School | Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1884 | Standing |
Clark School | Cleveland, OH | 1884 | Demolished |
Sibley (Jane Addams School) | 4940 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1884-5 | Demolished |
Case School of Applied Science (demolished) | Cleveland, OH | 1885 | Demolished |
Stanard School | 5360 Stanard Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1885 | Standing |
Boston Township School | 1775 Main Street, Penninsula, OH | 1887 | Standing |
East Madison School | 1130 Addison Road, Cleveland, OH | 1889 | Demolished |
John Eisenmann Residence | 1801 East 79th Street, Cleveland, OH | 1889 | Demolished |
Joseph Turner and Sons Manufacturing | 5932 Broadway rear, Cleveland, OH | 1889 | Demolished |
Commercial Building for Erastus Cushing | 115-7 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1890 | Demolished |
Residence for John O. Ensign | 1966 East 82nd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1890 | Demolished |
The Arcade | 401 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1890 | Standing |
Warehouse for Henry & Betsy Cushing | 2040 East 3rd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1890 | Demolished |
Ohio Masonic Home | 2655 West National Road, Springfield, OH | 1890-2 | Standing |
William Taylor and Sons | Cleveland, OH | 1891 | Demolished |
Cleveland Dorcas Home for Sick and Destitute Women | 1380 Addison Road, Cleveland, OH | 1891-2 | Demolished |
Addition to commercial building for the Bradley Estate | 1279-83 West 3rd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1892 | Demolished |
Alterations to commercial building for Weber, Lind & Hall | 70-74 Public Square, Cleveland, OH | 1892 | Demolished |
Commercial Building for Bradley Estate | 1279-83 West 3rd Street, Cleveland, OH | 1892 | Demolished |
Powerhouse and 5 story commercial building for Bradley est 47 x 195 $22,000 | Cleveland, OH | 1892 | Demolished |
Commercial-Residential Building for John Stofft | 10307-9 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1893 | Demolished |
Kinsman School Addition | Cleveland, OH | 1894 | Demolished |
Miranda Apartments for Davis Hawley | 2609 East 48th Place, Cleveland, OH | 1895 | Demolished |
Warehouse for Morris Bradley Trustee | 21 Noble, Cleveland, OH | 1896 | Demolished |
Jackson Street School | Painesville, Painesville, OH | n.d. | Standing |
Addition and alteration to Louis P. Smith Residence | 7200 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1897 | Standing |
Childrens Ward fpr City Hospital | 3345 Scranton Road, Cleveland, OH | 1897 | Demolished |
E.R. Hull & Dutton Building | 2025 Ontario Steet, Cleveland, OH | 1897 | Standing |
West Side Library (Cinecraft) | 2515 Franklin Blvd., Cleveland, OH | 1897 | Standing |
Esmond Apartments | 4806 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1898 | Standing |
Farmers and Drovers Stock Yard Co | SS CCC & St. Louis RR WS Gordon, Cleveland, OH | 1898 | Demolished |
Tenement for C.W. Collister | 1168 Euclid, Cleveland, OH | 1898 | Demolished |
Brick store and dwelling for Guardian Trust | Cleveland, OH | 1899 | Demolished |
Ohio Building | Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, NY | 1900 | Demolished |
Three story dry goods for H.K. Cushing | Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1901 | Demolished |
Wagner Manufacturing | Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1901 | Demolished |
Conrad Thoma Reisdence | 2357-9 Payne Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1902 | Demolished |
Light Manufacturing Building for Maurice & Ignatz Stone | 1213 Wesr 6th Street, Cleveland, OH | 1902 | Standing |
Alterations to the Arcade for Cleveland Arcade Company | 341-411 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1903 | Standing |
Cleveland, Frog & Crossing | Cleveland, OH | 1903 | Demolished |
Commercial-Residential Building for William Buse | 629-31 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1903 | Demolished |
Pardee Residence | 10220 Clifton Boulevard, Cleveland, OH | 1903 | Standing |
Commercial Buildng for Pabst Brewing | Vincent Street, Cleveland, OH | 1904 | Demolished |
Factory Building for Victory Oil | 1530 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland, OH | 1904 | Standing |
Sources
Building Arts #6 5-6, June 13, 1932
Cleveland City Directories
Cleveland Necrology file 1.6.1924
Plain Dealer March 29, 1903
Image Source(s): Craig Bobby