Morris

Architect/Firm: Charles Morris
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Name: Charles Morris

Birth/Established: August 13, 1869 Death/Dissolved: January 27, 1930

Firm Affiliation:

Morris & Weinberg

Biography:

Charles Morris was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was the first employee in the office of Carrere and Hastings in New York at the age of eighteen. He later went to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He came to Cleveland in 1902 as an associate of Lehman & Schmitt where he won the competition for the Court House design. He also designed the Cleveland Public Library - Broadway Branch. In 1904 he returned to New York where he went into private practice. In 1914 he went to Washington, D.C. to become the chief designer for the Treasury Department. In that position he designed post offices and federal buildings throughout the country. He returned to Cleveland in 1919 and in 1923 he formed the firm of Morris & Weinberg. He was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1925. He was an early supporter of the Cleveland School of Architecture. He died of influenza at the age of sixty.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
22nd Regiment Engineers A...	nd	New York	Unknown
Astor Theatre	Nd	New York	Unknown
Euclid Avenue Temple	Nd	Cleveland	Unknown
Municipal Ferry House	nd	New York	Unknown
Plaza Theatre	Nd	New York	Unknown
University Theatre	Nd	New York	Unknown

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Obituary - Plain Dealer January 28, 1930

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