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Architect/Firm: Lyman R. Walker
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Name: Lyman R. Walker

Birth/Established: April 22, 1880 Death/Dissolved: February 23, 1933

Biography:

Lyman Walker was born in Zanesville, Ohio and moved to Covington, Kentucky at age ten. He went to work in the office of Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford where he worked for three years. In 1900 he entered government employment as assistant supervising architect of the military occupation of Cuba. He returned to the United States in 1902 and went to work in Omaha, returning to Covington in 1904. He attended the University of Cincinnati, Carnegie Tech, and Michigan State College. He worked in Florida, then Detroit and Cincinnati. During World War I he served as a combat pilot. He served as a lieutenant colonel and was attached to the Officers Reserve Corps. He moved to Cleveland in 1921. He wrote numerous articles for trade publications. He specialized in the design of apartment buildings.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Farmers' and Traders' Ban...	1904	535 Madison Avenue Covington	Standing
Villa Madonna Academy	1907	2500 Amsterdam Road Villa Hills	Standing
Sixth District School - A...	1907-09	1901 Maryland Ave Covington	Standing
Cohen Shoes Building	1910	20 West Pike Street Covington	Standing
Seventh District School -...	1910	23rd X Howell Streets Covington	Demolished
St. Stephen's Episcopal C...	1910	3831 Decoursey Ave Covington	Standing
YMCA Building	1913	624 Madison Avenue Covington	Standing
Remodel Hospital to Apart...	1923	625 Eddy Road Cleveland	Demolished
Apartment Building for Ep...	1924	1468 Highland Avenue Lakewood	Standing
Apartment Building for Ma...	1924	1455 East 114th Street Cleveland	Standing
Edmonton Apartment Buildi...	1924	794-802 East 125th Street Cleveland	Partially Demolished
The Wilmar Apartment Buil...	1924	2715-19 East Boulevard Cleveland	Demolished
Euclid-Hastings Apartment...	1925	15620 Euclid Avenue East Cleveland	Standing
Apartment Buiding	1927	11415 Hessler Road Cleveland	Standing
"Seville" Aprtment Buildi...	1928	Akron	Unknown
Apartment Building for Ma...	1928	11115-9 Lake Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Edgewater Park Manor Apar...	1928	9829 Lake Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Lake West Apartments	1929	10507 Lake Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Residence	1929	Morewood Parkway Rocky River	Standing
West Shore Apartments	1929	Edgewater and Cove Lakewood	Standing
Apartment Building	1930	2968 South Moreland Boulevard Cleveland	Standing
Apartment Building	1930	2980 South Moreland Boulevard Cleveland	Standing
Hampton House	1930	10017 Lake Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Westmont Apartment Buildi...	1930	22 Rhodes Avenue Akron	Standing

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"Lyman R. Walker, Architect, Dies" Plain Dealer February 24, 1933

Building Arts November 1931

Cleveland City Directories

Cleveland Necrology File - February 25, 1933

Johnson, E. Polk; History of Kentucky and Kentuckians; New York and Chicago: Lewis Publishing; 1912

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