Granger

Architect/Firm: Alfred Granger
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Name: Alfred Hoyt Granger

Birth/Established: May 31, 1867 Death/Dissolved: December 3, 1939

Firm Affiliation:

Granger & Meade

Biography:

Alfred Hoyt Granger was born in Zanesville, Ohio and was the great grandnephew of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Secretary of State John Sherman. He graduated from Kenyon College and studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and abroad. He lived in Cleveland from 1893 to 1898, where he originally was in business by himself and later formed a partnership with Frank Meade. While in Cleveland he designed the Euclid Heights development. In 1898 he moved to Chicago and began the firm of Frost and Granger. In Chicago that firm designed the Northwestern Railroad Terminal, and the Northern Trust Bank Building. They also designed the Union Station at Omaha, Nebraska and the Milwaukee Road station in Minneapolis. He was a captain of engineers in World War I and served as chairman of a construction committee for the war industry board. In 1919 he became a member in the firm of Granger and Bollenbacher. He was the author of several books and served as Chairman of the jury that chose the design for the Chicago Tribune Tower.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Henry Dalton Residence	1894	1887 East 82nd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for David J. No...	1894	1940 East 71st Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Mrs. M. J. ...	1894	1752 East 63rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Alfred Granger Residence	1895	2141 Overlook Drive Cleveland Heights	Standing
Alton Dustin Residence	1895	1833 East 65th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Barn for H. G. Dalton	1895	1887 East 82nd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial Building for J...	1895	922 Superior / 1681 East 9th Street Cleveland	Demolished
F. E. Abbott Residence	1895	1870 East 97th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Samuel Mather Coachman's ...	1895	Cleveland	Demolished
Robert H. Clark Residence	1895-6	3450 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Luther Alle...	1896	7609 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished

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Chicago Daily Tribune December 4, 1939, p 16

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• CLEVELAND CITY PLANNING COMMISSION •