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Name: William Robert Powell

Birth/Established: Decemebr 30, 1876 Death/Dissolved: May 20, 1967

Biography:

William Robert Powell was born and attended school in Radnor, Ohio. He attended Oberlin College and Case School of Applied Science, graduated from Columbia University in 1905, and received a degree in Fine Arts from the Sorbonne in Paris in 1907. According to City Directories, he settled in Cleveland in 1909, and earned a law degree at Western Reserve University in 1929. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the Hiram Lodge of the Masons at Delaware. He was listed as a registered architect in the November 1940 Ohio Architect. He retired in 1964 and died in 1967 at the age of eighty-nine in Delaware, Ohio. He was buried in Radnor.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Price Wolf Clothiers Comp...	1914	2125 Superior Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Cleveland Public Library	1916	East 79th Street Branch Cleveland	Standing
Six Residences	1918	Allendale Avenue East Cleveland	Unknown
Ideal Company Department ...	1918-21	59 Lincolnway East Massillon	Standing
Cleveland Heights City Ha...	1923	Mayfield Road Cleveland	Demolished
Apartment Building for M....	1925	3411-5 East 140th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Lorain Medical Building	1925	11420 Lorain Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Residence	1927	2904 Montgomery Road Shaker Heights	Standing
Fire Station	1929	3216 Silsby Road Cleveland Heights	Standing
Fire Station	1930	2595 Noble Road Cleveland Heights	Standing

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Cleveland City Directories 1909 - 1939

Coates, William R.; A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland; v. III, p.216-7; 1924 Chicago and New York : American Historical Society

Obituary Cleveland Press May 20, 1967

Who's Who in Ohio 1930 p 104

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