Ferguson

Architect/Firm: William Ferguson
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Name: William Stanley Ferguson

Birth/Established: May 8, 1880 Death/Dissolved: September 12, 1954

Biography:

William Stanley Ferguson was an architect, engineer, and inventor who was born in St. Thomas, Ontario and educated in the Cleveland Public Schools. He invented two-rope ore digging buckets, and the Ferguson Reinforced Dock, used throughout the United States. In 1906, he was a Civil Engineer for the Carey Construction Co. in East Cleveland. He became the President of the W. S. Ferguson Company in 1910. From 1924 to 1929 he was the Director of Public Service for the City of Cleveland, President and General Manager of the Memphis Hy-Lands Company, the Roland Realty Company, the Roland Improvement Company, the Weona Realty Company, and Steemoil Burner Company. He was Vice President of the Dock and Terminal Engineering Company. He was on the board of directors of the National Town and Country Club. He lived at 26151 Lake Shore Boulevard in 1930. His office was in the 1900 Euclid Building. He is listed as a registered architect in the November 1940 Ohio Architect list.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Industrial Building for O...	1913	6815 Superior Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Lennox Furnace Company	1913	Marshalltown	unknown
Six Story Office Building...	1913-4	1836 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Commercial Building for E...	1914	15112 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
C. H. Conners Dancing Aca...	1915	6445 Detroit Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Grant Motor Car Company	1916	12819 Coit Road Cleveland	Standing
Factory for Mason Tire an...	1917	705 Lake Street Kent	Demolished
Welfare Building restaura...	1917	Hydraulic and East 61st Cleveland	Demolished
Additions and Alterations...	1918	Findlay	unknown
American Fireproof Storag...	1918	Euclid and East 123rd Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial Building for S...	1918	2785 - 95 Euclid Heights Boulevard Cleveland Heights	Demolished
Henry and Catherine Hand ...	1918	Shenandoah	Unknown
Cleveland Motor Sales Com...	1919-20	3950 Prospect Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Cresswell Building	1920	1220-6 Huron Road Cleveland	Standing
Textile Building Company	1920	2502 - 54 Superior Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Commercial Building for T...	1921	6820 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Craig Motor Company	1921	3800 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Lakewood Fireproof Storag...	1922	14401 Detroit Avenue Lakewood	Standing
Commercial Building	1923	2000 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Medical Centre Building	1923	1001 Huron Road Cleveland	Standing
Commodore Apartments	1924	10401 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Jay Hotel	1924	2515 Jay Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Ohio Buick	1925	1900 East 24th Street Cleveland	Standing
Betty Burke Building	1927	Coventry Road Cleveland Heights	Standing
Liquid Carbonic Corporati...	1929	1318 West 58th Street Cleveland	Standing
Avon Lake Theatre	1949	33487 Lake Road Avon Lake	Unknown

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Cleveland City Directories

Cleveland Necrology file - September 11, 1954

Rook Building Souvenir Book of Cleveland 1921

Who's Who in Ohio 1930 p48

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