Austin Company

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Name: Austin Company

Birth/Established: 1861 Death/Dissolved: present

Biography:

The Austin Company was founded by English-born Samuel J. Austin (1850-1936). Samuel Austin finished his apprenticeship in 1871 settling in Cleveland where he became a house carpenter. The company started as Samuel Austin, Carpenter-Contractor with offices at 4401 Broadway. The company would later become Samuel Austin and Son Company when son Wilbert Austin (1878-1940) joined the company. The company would move its operations to 14230 Euclid in East Cleveland. It expanded into one of the nation's largest building concerns, designing and constructing huge industrial buildings. They brought important energy-saving innovations into factory plans. Austin Company was hired by the Soviet government to build a large industrial plant and housing for the Nijni auto plant in Novogorod, Russia. By 1931 the company had designed over 5,000 industrial plants and had over 17 branch offices. The company remains based in Metropolitan Cleveland, with offices in Mayfield Heights. It became a part of Kajima USA Group in 2005.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Laidlow Works	1917	Cincinnati	Unknown
Reliance Manufacturing	1917	Massillon	Unknown
Standard Equipment	1917	Lorain Avenue and W. 106th Street Cleveland	Unknown
Barker Asphalt Company	1918	Madison	Unknown
CAS Products	1918	Columbus	Unknown
Cleveland Automoatic Mach...	1918	Cleveland	Unknown
Dayton Metal Pro Ducts	1918	Dayton	Unknown
Engine Machine Company	1918	Matoon	Unknown
Factory	1918	Buffalo	Unknown
United States Automatic	1918	Amherst	Unknown
Sunny Point Packing Compa...	1927	Ketchikan	Unknown
W. F. Schlothan Shipyards	1927	Ketchikan	Unknown
Chase Brass and Copper	1929	Babbit Road Euclid	Unknown
Geometric Stamping Compan...	1929	St. Clair and East 200th Euclid	Unknown
Gorky Auto Plant	1931	Nizhny Novgorod	Unknown
Kettering Hall of Science	1961	130 West Loarain Street Oberlin	Standing
Langston Hall (North Hall...	1963	95 Union Street Oberlin	Standing
Williams Ice Rink	1963	200 Woodland Street Oberlin	Standing
Canton Steel Foundry	nd	Canton	Unknown
Cape Town Explosives	nd	Cape Town	Unknown
Chase Brass and Copper	nd	Cleveland	Unknown
Edgewater Steel Company	nd	Oakmont	Unknown
Frantz-Premier Company	nd	Cleveland	Unknown
Geometric Stamping	nd	Cleveland	Unknown
Gram-Bernstein Company Fa...	nd	Lima	Unknown
Musterole Company	nd	Cleveland	Unknown
Nela Park	nd	East Cleveland	Standing
Ordinance Engineering Com...	nd	Baldwin	Unknown
West End Chemical Company	nd	Death Valley	Unknown

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Bystander February 27, 1932

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• CLEVELAND CITY PLANNING COMMISSION •