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Cleveland Architect Database

The Cleveland Architects Database is a listing of architects and master builders that have worked in Cleveland, since the 1820s and the buildings they designed here and abroad up to and including the 1970s. Sources include City of Cleveland Building Permits, professional publications including American Architect and Builder News, Inland Architect, Interstate Architect, the Ohio Architect and Builder, the Annals of Cleveland, the Plain Dealer, the Leader, the Press, Material Facts, the Bystander, and Cleveland Town Topics. Additional source material reviewed at the Cleveland Public Library Fine Arts Department, various books on Cleveland architecture, the American Institute of Architects Guide to Cleveland Architecture and a catalogue of architectural drawings maintained by the Western Reserve Historical Society were consulted. The Cleveland Necrology file maintained by the Cleveland Public Library, the United States Census, and Cleveland City Directories were reviewed in compiling accompanying biographies.

For this database, an architect is defined as anyone that identified himself or herself as an architect. Generally, these people had an office in the city or designed multiple structures here or in the immediate surrounding cities. This project began as a hobby by Robert Keiser over several years. Craig Bobby has researched many of the entries and donated photographs of those buildings. This is an ongoing project and will be updated on a regular basis. PLEASE NOTE: All entries have not been fully researched and require citations. Please confirm any unsourced entry

Architects

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X W Z
Birth / Established: March 28, 1873
Death / Dissolved: November 29, 1947

Biography

Emile Uhlrich was born in Epinal, France. He was educated at the Ecole Fenelon, the Lycee St. Nicholas, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He came to the United States in 1891 at the age of eighteen. He was active as an architect in Cleveland from 1898 to 1923. In 1900 he was a lodger in the Charles Stanley Residence, 2150 East 22nd Street. He was naturalized on January 23, 1900. Initally he was a partner with Godfrey Fugman from 1899 to 1903 and then formed a short-lived partnership with Harry Cone in 1905. He left Cleveland after 1923. He would later live in the Hotel Maryland in New York City. He died in France and is buried in Cemetery of Villefranche near the Mediterranean.

Building Name Address Built Status
Des Jardins & Hayward Cincinnati, OH 1894 Unknown
Basillica of St. Mary of the Assumption 506 4th Street, Marietta, OH 1903-1909 Standing
Parsonage and Hall 8021-3 Rawlings Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1904 Standing
St. Ladislaus Church 2908 Wood Street, Lorain, OH 1904-7 Standing
St. Paul and Peter's Church 227 South New York St, Wellston, NY 1905-6 Standing
National Hall for the Slovanian Association 8802 Buckeye Road, Cleveland, OH 1906 Standing
Our Lady of Lourdes School 3398 East 55th Street, Cleveland, OH 1906 Standing
St. Michael School 3146 Scranton Road, Cleveland, OH 1906 Standing
St. Andrew's Church Superior Near Asylum, Cleveland, OH 1907 Demolished
St. Barbara's Church and School 4007 Valley Road, Brooklyn, OH 1907 Demolished
St. John the Baptist School 9508 Buckeye Road, Cleveland, OH 1907 Demolished
St. Peter Roman Catholic Church 425 North 4th Street, Steubenville, OH 1908 Standing
St. Paul's School 1375 East 40th Street, Cleveland, OH 1909 Standing
Weizer Block 8937 Buckeye Road, Cleveland, OH 1913 Demolished
Bascillica of St. Mary of the Angels 202 South Union, Olean, NY 1913-9 Standing
Nativity BVM Catholic School and Hall 9514 Aetna Road, Cleveland, OH 1915 Standing
St. Barbara Rectory 1599 Denison Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1916 Standing
St. Elizabeth's Hall 9016 Buckeye Road, Cleveland, OH 1917 Standing
St. Joseph Orphan Home 1200 Fifteenth Avenue E., Superior, WI 1917 Standing
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church 9016 Buckeye Road, Cleveland, OH 1918-22 Standing
Our Lady of Victory Basilica Church 767 Ridge Road, Lackawanna, NY 1922-6 Standing
Our Lady of Consolation Church 315 Clay Street, Carey, OH n.d. Standing

Sources

American Foreign Service - Report of the Death of an American Citizen - Dated December 30,1947
Book of Clevelanders p.270
Cleveland City Directories
Downtown and the University: Youngstown, Ohio William A. Brenner March 1976
Ohio Architect and Builder September 1904
The Jubilee Edition of the Cleveland Wachter und Anzeiger 1902

Birth / Established: April 18, 1878
Death / Dissolved: December 14, 1948

Biography

Charles Uthe was born in North Amherst, Ohio and was educated in Cleveland Public Schools. He began work as an architect in 1898 at the National Electric Lamp Company. He worked for Granger & Meade for five years, Meade & Garfield for four years, two years for W. R. Watterson, and with contractor J. A. Reaugh & Son. In 1916 he became supervising engineer with William Sly & Company. Later he was employed with the Northern Blower Company. In 1935 he was appointed construction engineer at the Parsons Engineering Company. Later in life he was associated with I. T. Frary, staff member of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He supervised the drawing and sketches of old homes and monuments throughout Ohio. He was a member of the Cleveland Architectural Club, a member of First Congregational Church, and a Republican. He resided at 1252 East 80th Street. He died in 1948 at St. Vincent Charity Hospital and is buried in Youngstown.

Building Name Address Built Status
Commercial Building Lorain and Root, Cleveland, OH 1904 Demolished
West Park Congregational Church 3909 Rocky River Drive, Cleveland, OH 1905 Demolished
Neal Terrace 8811 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 1906 Standing
Building for Dean Hutchcroft 1318 West 78th Street, Cleveland, OH 1907 Standing

Sources


Cleveland City Directories 1905, 1906, 1907, 1938
Obituary, Catholic Universe Bulletin 17 December 1948
Progressive Men of Northern Ohio p. 222