Blythe

Architect/Firm: Walter Blythe
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Name: Walter Blythe

Birth/Established: February 27, 1827 Death/Dissolved: August 17, 1884

Firm Affiliation:

Heard & Blythe

Biography:

Walter Blythe was born in Leeds, England. He came to America at the age of thirteen in 1849 and located in Cleveland one year later. He married Florida Geneva Heard, the daughter of architect Charles Heard. He learned the avocation of stone-cutter from his father-in-law. He later became a draftsman and then an architect. He was a veteran of the Forty-first Ohio Volunteers regiment during the Civil War. Immediately after the war, from 1866 to 1871, he was a partner in the firm of Heard and Blythe. In 1871 he went into business for himself. He was the president of the Board of Water Works. All of his work was built before the issuance of building permits by the City of Cleveland (1888), thus making it unidentifiable. He lived at the edge of the city at Kinsman Road and East 40th Street. He was the architect of many important commercial and governmental buildings built during the High Victorian era.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Oberlin College Council H...	1871-4	Lorain Street Oberlin	Demolished 1930
Colonel Frank Lynch Resid...	1872	2913 Clinton Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Lewis Kies Residence	1872	4208 Prospect Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Tremont School	1872	West 10th and Tremont Cleveland	Demolished
Cleveland Fire Station #9	1873	East 55th south of Woodland Cleveland	Demolished
Euclid Avenue Block	1873	206-16 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Mary Groh Residence	1873	3043 Superior Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Standard Oil Block	1873	43-55 Euclid (1885) Cleveland	Demolished
Striebinger House	1873	62 Michigan Street Cleveland	Demolished
Union School House	1873-4	39 South Main Street Oberlin	Standing
Clark Block	1874	331-3 West Superior Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Cleveland Fire Station #4	1874	1455 West 29th Street Cleveland	Standing
Hoyt Block	1874	700 St. Clair Avenue NW Cleveland	Standing
Outhwaite School	1874	Outhwaite near Willson Cleveland	Demolished
Paine Block	1874	1350-98 Ontario Street Cleveland	Demolished
Brainard Block	1876	322-6 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Cleveland Fire Station #1...	1876	4090 East 91st Street Cleveland	Standing
Windsor Block	1876	340 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
E. M. McMillan Store	1880	210 Federal Street Youngstown	Demolished
Marsh and Harwood Acid Wo...	1880	Independence and E. 26th Cleveland	Demolished
Block for Oscar Townsend	1881	721-711 West St. Clair Cleveland	Demolished
Block of stores	1881	Broadway and Hamlet Cleveland	Demolished
Fred Dieboldt Residence	1881	2429 East 55th Street Cleveland	Demolished
George Warrington House	1881	2613 Franklin Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
H.P. McIntosh Residence	1881	1071 Superior Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Masonic Temple	1881	Superior and East 6th Street Cleveland	Demolished
S. Brainard and Sons	1881	East 4th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Block of Blair and Bros. ...	1882	Cleveland	Demolished
Building for Jno Vincent	1882	Frankfort Street Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial Building	1882	College and Main Oberlin	Standing
Business block on Ontario...	1883	Cleveland	Demolished
Phil Morris Residence	1883	2075 East 96th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Pipe foundry for Silas M...	1883	Lake Shore RR near Case Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Evangelical Association B...	1884	1903-23 Woodland Cleveland	Demolished
Payne Building	1884	701-33 St. Clair Avenue NW Cleveland	Demolished
White Elephant Building	1884	2303-7 East 4th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Monroe Street Cemetery Ga...	nd	Cleveland	Standing

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Inland Architect and Builder September 1884

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