Eisenmann

Architect/Firm: John Eisenmann
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Name: John Eisenmann

Birth/Established: March 1851 Death/Dissolved: January 6, 1924

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.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Buhrer School	1883	Cleveland	Demolished
Duke School	1883	Duke & Outhwaite Cleveland	Demolished
Dunham School	1883	Dunham & Lexington Cleveland	Demolished
Lincoln School	1883	2520 E.83rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Marion School	1883	Cleveland	Demolished
West High School	1883	Bridge and Randall Cleveland	Demolished
Zion Lutheran Church	1883	Monroe	Demolished
Lincoln School	1883, 1900	2520 East 83rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Brownell School	1884	Carnegie Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Clark School	1884	Cleveland	Demolished
Sibley (Jane Addams Schoo...	1884-5	4940 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Case School of Applied Sc...	1885	Cleveland	Demolished
Stanard School	1885	5360 Stanard Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Boston Township School	1887	1775 Main Street Penninsula	Standing
East Madison School	1889	1130 Addison Road Cleveland	Demolished
John Eisenmann Residence	1889	1801 East 79th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Joseph Turner and Sons Ma...	1889	5932 Broadway rear Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial Building for E...	1890	115-7 Prospect Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for John O. Ens...	1890	1966 East 82nd Street Cleveland	Demolished
The Arcade	1890	401 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Warehouse for Henry & Bet...	1890	2040 East 3rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Ohio Masonic Home	1890-2	2655 West National Road Springfield	Standing
William Taylor and Sons	1891	2 story frame stables 38 x 1000 $7,000 Cleveland	Demolished
Cleveland Dorcas Home for...	1891 - 2	1380 Addison Road Cleveland	Demolished
Addition to commercial bu...	1892	1279 - 83 West 3rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Alterations to commercial...	1892	70 - 74 Public Square Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial Building for B...	1892	1279 - 83 West 3rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Powerhouse and 5 story co...	1892	Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial-Residential Bu...	1893	10307-9 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Kinsman School Addition	1894	Cleveland	Demolished
Miranda Apartments for Da...	1895	2609 East 48th Place Cleveland	Demolished
Warehouse for Morris Brad...	1896	21 Noble Cleveland	Demolished
Jackson Street School	1896 ?	Painesville Painesville	Standing
Addition and alteration t...	1897	7200 Detroit Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Childrens Ward fpr City H...	1897	3345 Scranton Road Cleveland	Demolished
E.R. Hull & Dutton Build...	1897	2025 Ontario Steet Cleveland	Standing
West Side Library (Cinecr...	1897	2515 Franklin Blvd. Cleveland	Standing
Esmond Apartments	1898	4806 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Farmers and Drovers Stock...	1898	ss CCC & St. Louis RR ws Gordon Cleveland	Demolished
Tenement for C.W. Collist...	1898	1168 Euclid Cleveland	Demolished
Brick store and dwelling ...	1899	Cleveland	Demolished
Ohio Building	1900	Pan American Exposition Buffalo	Demolished
Three story dry goods for...	1901	Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Wagner Manufacturing	1901	Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Conrad Thoma Reisdence	1902	2357 - 9 Payne Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Light Manufacturing Build...	1902	1213 Wesr 6th Street Cleveland	Standing
Alterations to the Arcade...	1903	341-411 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Cleveland, Frog & Crossin...	1903	Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial-Residential Bu...	1903	629-31 Prospect Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Pardee Residence	1903	10220 Clifton Boulevard Cleveland	Standing
Commercial Buildng for Pa...	1904	Vincent Street Cleveland	Demolished
Factory Building for Vict...	1904	1530 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland	Standing

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Building Arts #6 5-6, 13 June 1932

Cleveland City Directories

Cleveland Necrology file 1.6.1924

Plain Dealer March 29, 1903

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