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Architect/Firm: Fenimore Bate
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Name: Fenimore C Bate

Birth/Established: 1857 Death/Dissolved: June 27, 1903

Biography:

Fenimore C. Bate was born in Cleveland. He first appears in the 1876-7 Cleveland City Directory as a draftsman working for architect Walter Blythe. In 1883, he was a draftsman and, the following year, an architect for the Cleveland Water Works Department. By 1885 he was in business for himself as an architect. He was the architect of numerous houses for the middle and upper middle classes as well as of commercial buildings at a time when Cleveland's population was booming. His works were well documented in the architectural journals of the time. Several significant examples of Bate-designed Queen Anne houses survive. These include the Schellentrager House (built 1893), 690 Lakeview Road; the Henry Trenkamp House (1894-5), 1905 East 89th Street; and the Latham Brightman House, now the Holmes County Historical Society (1901) in Millersburg, Ohio. His houses were built throughout Cleveland, northeast Ohio cities and towns, including Fremont and Toledo, and Indianapolis, Indiana. An article in the March 17, 1888 "Cleveland Town Topics" magazine said that Bate-designed homes "all show a refreshing departure from the stereotyped styles of a few years ago". He is best known as the architect of the Romanesque Revival-style Cleveland Grays Armory (1893), 1234 Bolivar Road. He was also a member of the Cleveland Grays.

Later in his career he designed more tenement or apartment buildings, a popular building type in turn-of-the-century Cleveland. Architect Edward E. Smith was a draftsman who worked for Fenimore Bate from 1889 until 1894. Throughout Bate's career he designed commercial and industrial buildings. The Megerth Block (1892-3), 8620 - 6 Cedar Avenue, and the addition to the Standard Lighting Building (1895), 4419-37 Perkins Avenue, are two extant commercial-industrial use buildings designed by Bate. He was also the architect of several hotels and hotel additions, though apparently none of those survive. There is an article in the September 22, 1900 issue of the "Interstate Architect" that states that Bate was injured in an accident in his office where he dropped a battery with acid striking him in the face and neck causing him temporary blindness. After a period of failing health, Fenimore Bate died on June 27, 1903 at the age of forty six of apoplexy at home in his New Amsterdam apartment. He was buried in Lake View Cemetery. He left his estate to his wife Helen, including property that he owned on East 20th Street occupied by the Fenimore Apartments.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Commercial Building	1880	Hamilton and Niagara Buffalo	Demolished
Acid Works for Hayes & Co	1882	Marquette Street Cleveland	Demolished
Brick wire mill for Otis ...	1882	Wire Street Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial-Residential Bu...	1882	Broadway Cleveland	Demolished
Gilbert Barnes Residence	1882	1427 West 57th Street Cleveland	Standing
Residence for Charles S. ...	1882	2362 East 46th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Alterations to James Spra...	1883	3601 Clinton Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Cleveland City Forge & Ir...	1883	4411 Lakeside Cleveland	Demolished
Cleveland Water Works Boi...	1883	Cleveland	Demolished
George L. Schryver Reside...	1883	3714 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for E. R. Hull ...	1883	1454 East 55th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Wm Bingham	1883	East 30th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Three dwellings for Charl...	1883	Cedar Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Cleveland Storage Company...	1884	1944 Scranton Road Cleveland	Demolished
George H. Baker Residence	1884	2265 East 40th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Harry Dorner Residence	1884	1444 East 55th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Two dwellings for Fred Ke...	1884	2684 and 2688 East 48th Place Cleveland	Demolished
Addition for American Wir...	1885	1220 Marquette Street Cleveland	Demolished
C. C. Morse Residence	1885	2054 East 83rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
D. A. Dangler Residence	1885	3010 Prospect Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Fairmount Pumping Station	1885	2304 Woodhill Road Cleveland	Demolished
Fenimore Bate Residence	1885	2416 East 46th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Lemuel Rawson Residence	1885	2356-8 East 40th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Store Building for Henry ...	1885	3503-9 Broadway Cleveland	Demolished
A. M. Benson Residence	1886	2402 East 46th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Albert House Residence	1886	2422 East 46th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Alexander Marshall Reside...	1886	2366 East 46th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Bradley Block	1886	2179 Ontario Street Cleveland	Demolished
Fred Keppler Residence	1886	2483 East 40th Street Cleveland	Demolished
H. A. Fuller Residence	1886	1899 East 82nd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Henry Boyer Residence	1886	1669 East 55th Street Cleveland	Demolished
James Mansur Residence	1886	2426 East 46th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Mehnard Block	1886	1685-95 East 55th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Terrace for Jarvis Adams	1886	2073-85 East 36th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Willis Holden Residence	1886	8409 Cedar Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Abbie Pettengill and Henr...	1887	2927 Prospect Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Louis Winch Residence	1887	2047 East 69th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Thomas Quin...	1887	5817 Longfellow Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
W. J. Hayes Summer Reside...	1887	4655 Hayes Road Ravenna	Standing
William H. Flood Residenc...	1887	8109 Woodland Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Bishop & Babcock	1888	4901-15 Hamilton Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial Building for A...	1888	5013-27 Woodland Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
D. E. Dangler Residence	1888	3224 Prospect Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Factory for Standard Tool	1888	6900 Central Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
George Walker Residence	1888	8714 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Harry Avery Residence	1888	2097 East 21st Street Cleveland	Demolished
John Wilcox Residence	1888	1903 East 82nd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Joseph Einstein Residence	1888	2388 East 37th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Kennard Block (factories)	1888	1144 West 3rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Lawrence Fox Residence	1888	1940 East 82nd Street Cleveland	Demolished
S. A. E. Lyman Residence	1888	2910 Clinton Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Samuel Croxton Residence	1888	5802 Longfellow Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Arthur S. Gilman Residenc...	1889	1817 East 63rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Augustus Rude Residence	1889	2057 East 81st Street Cleveland	Demolished
Ben Salberg Residence	1889	2559 East 37th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial-Residential Bu...	1889	7515 Woodland Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial-Residential Bu...	1889	1772 East 12th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Double Residence for Ben ...	1889	2553-5 East 37th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Double Residence for Fred...	1889	2423-25 East 43rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
E. J. Lobdell Residence	1889	21 Baldwin Street Hudson	Standing
Edward L. Patterson Resid...	1889	5612 Quincy Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Edward Patterson Residenc...	1889	5612 Quincy Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
G. A. Craig Residence	1889	1417 West 58th Street Cleveland	Standing
L. A. Roby Residence	1889	1906 East 82nd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Lorenzo D. Dodge Residenc...	1889	1824 East 65th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Charlotte E...	1889	2571 East 79th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Charlotte E...	1889	2573 East 79th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Charlotte E...	1889	2575 East 79th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for F. H. Penfi...	1889	2633-5 East 40th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for James Rochf...	1889	1565 East 22nd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Wilson Dodg...	1889	1617 Chester Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Store and flat building f...	1889	7901-7 Woodland Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Stores and Tenements for ...	1889	3703-9 Woodland Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
The Morgan Apartment Buil...	1889	2022 Prospect Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Thomas Manning Residence	1889	1341 Chester Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Tower Addition to First R...	1889	1944 West 32nd Street Cleveland	Standing
Victor Gutzweiler Residen...	1889	2021 East 69th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Woodland Hotel	1889	7909 Woodland Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Hiram Aiken	1889-90	2420 West 14th Street Cleveland	Standing
Alterations to Forest Cit...	1890	225-01 Public Square and 201-25 West Superior Cleveland	Demolished
Arthur Block	1890	5013-27 Woodland Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Bishop and Babcock Factor...	1890	Hamilton and Kirtland Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial - Residential ...	1890	1307 - 13 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial and Office Bui...	1890	410-18 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial building for C...	1890	500-2 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Commerical-Residential Bu...	1890	5013-7 Woodland Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Dangler Store & Manufactu...	1890	5017 Perkins Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Edward S. Isom Residence	1890	1846 East 63rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Engine House #17	1890	5305 Chester Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Factory for Dangler Srove...	1890	4540 Commerce Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Fenimore Bate Residence	1890	4802 Scovill Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Glenville High School (la...	1890	635 East 105th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Louis Schellentrager Resi...	1890	3525 Cedar Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Hiram Aiken	1890	1515 Kenilworth Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Mary Heisle...	1890	1833 Dodge Court Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Mary Heisle...	1890	1839 Dodge Court Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for William Cle...	1890	1793 East 65th Street Cleveland	Standing
Residence for William Cle...	1890	1795 East 65th Street Cleveland	Standing
William Ludlum Residence	1890	1856 East 63rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Bethel House Hotel	1890-1	1468 West 10th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Storage house for Glidden...	1890-1	2686 Lisbon Cleveland	Demolished
A. R. Duncan Residence	1891	2337 East 55th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial-Residential Bu...	1891	2088 East 89th Street Cleveland	Demolished
F. A. Glidden Residence	1891	6719 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Frank E. Newcomb, Jr. Res...	1891	8115 Cedar Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Frank K. Glidden Residenc...	1891	2233 East 55th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Henry Shafer Residence	1891	8504 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Anna & Char...	1891	2567-9 East 40th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Anna & Char...	1891	2571-5 East 40th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Anna & Char...	1891	2577-9 East 40th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for W. J. Kelle...	1891	1835 East 63rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Standard Stove Company Ad...	1891	4601 - 31 Perkins Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Two Residences for Thomas...	1891	5600 and 5604 Lexington Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
William Beaumont Residenc...	1891	1810 East 63rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
William J. Gawne Residenc...	1891	2389 East 43rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
William Miller Residence	1891	7335 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
C. R. Swetland Residence ...	1892	1916 East 84th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Double Residence for Char...	1892	2331-3 East 55th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Double Residence for Erne...	1892	2170-2 East 97th Street Cleveland	Demolished
J. C. Trask Residence	1892	1916 East 93rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Rental residences for Hel...	1892	5914 Utica Cleveland	Demolished
Rental residences for Hel...	1892	5916 Utica Cleveland	Demolished
Rental residences for Hel...	1892	5910 Utica Cleveland	Standing
Rental residences for Hel...	1892	5912 Utica Cleveland	Standing
Sipe and Sigler Block	1892	1232 East 3rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Theatre for the Gehring B...	1892	1250 - 2 Ontario Cleveland	Demolished
W. D. B. Alexander Reside...	1892	1936 East 93rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
William A. Banks Residenc...	1892	8420 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Stores and Tenements for ...	1892-3	8620-6 Cedar Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Alterations and additions...	1893	631-51 W. Superior Cleveland	Demolished
Cleveland Grays Armory	1893	1234 Bolivar Road Cleveland	Standing
Ernest Schellentrager Res...	1893	690 Lakeview Road Cleveland	Standing
Gates-Handyside House	1893	762 Broadway Bedford	Standing
H. Hine Residence	1893	4624 West Prospect Mantua	Standing
J. S. Malone Residence	1893	2061 East 89th Street Cleveland	Demolished
R. H. Fetterman Residence	1893	7911 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Standard Tool	1893	6900-18 Central Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Stephen Morris Summer Res...	1893	321 East 185th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Zebulon Davis Residence	1893-6	352 North Market Canton	Demolished
Addition to Henry Shafer ...	1894	8504 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial Building for D...	1894	424 - 8 Central Cleveland	Demolished
E. S. Isom Residence	1894	2170-2 East 55th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Henry Schafer Residence	1894	8504 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Joseph Habson Residence	1894	1721 Prospect Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for A. R. Dunca...	1894	2332-4 East 57th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Residence for Harrison Ne...	1894	1882 East 20th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Henry Trenkamp Residence	1894-5	1905 East 89th Street Cleveland	Standing
Addition to Cleveland Pre...	1895	1297-9 West 4th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Alteration to Residence o...	1895	1773 East 55th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Alterations to Residence ...	1895	1791 West 47th Street Cleveland	Demolished
DeWitt Calkins Residence	1895	8520 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Standard Lighting Company...	1895	3-story addition 4419-37 Perkins Cleveland	Standing
The Mierke (store and apa...	1895	8523-27 Hough Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
George W. Smith Residence	1896	2738 Noble Road Cleveland Heights	Demolished
Dr. James Stotter Residen...	1897	2708 Bridge Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Edvardus Apartments for J...	1897	1833 East 19th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Fenimore Apartments for F...	1897	1863 East 20th Street Cleveland	Demolished
John Fraser Residence	1897	7104 Cedar Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Martha Apartments for F. ...	1897	1851 East 20th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Offices for Herbert Wrigh...	1897	714 Superior Avenue, NW Cleveland	Demolished
One-floor Addition to Apa...	1897	1818 East 17th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Transfer Building	1897	623-633 Superior Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Viola Flats for J. J. O'D...	1897	810 Summit Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Hawthorne Apartments for ...	1897-8	1818 East 17th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Apartment Building for Da...	1898	2433 East 43rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Apartment building for Ge...	1898	1850 8 East 20th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Chelsea Apartment House f...	1898	6401 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial Building for D...	1898	1737 East 12th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Griffith Barnes Residence	1898	1431 West 57th Street Cleveland	Standing
Malone Residence	1898	2160 East 86th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Lobdell Apartments for F....	1898-9	1893 East 20th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Anneston Apartments for C...	1899	1945 East 20th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Cerilla Apartments for Ch...	1899	1933 East 20th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Dangler Stove Company Add...	1899	4502 Commerce Cleveland	Standing
Dewey Theatre for Martin ...	1899	1882 East 9th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Laurel Block and apartmen...	1899	2915 Woodland & 2565 E. 29th Cleveland	Demolished
Store and tenemenet for T...	1899	Cross Street near Erie Cleveland	Demolished
Store and tenement for L....	1899	1221 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Warehouse for Koblitz Bro...	1899	213-21 Howe Cleveland	Demolished
Warehouse for Louis and J...	1899	575-83 Broadway Cleveland	Demolished
Factory for Metal Goods M...	1899-00	5363 Hamilton Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Apartment Building for He...	1900	1894 East 20th Street Cleveland	Demolished
E. W. Reaugh Residence	1900	1826 Idlewood East Cleveland	Standing
Vernon Arms for Herschel ...	1900	7515 LaGrange Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Evelyn Apartments for Her...	1900-1	1857-65 East 75th Cleveland	Demolished
Hotel and commercial buil...	1901	3523 - 27 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Latham Brightman Residenc...	1901	484 Wooster Road Millersburg	Standing
Residence for Captain Wil...	1901	12629 Euclid Avenue East Cleveland	Demolished
Two story frame barn for ...	1901	1916 East 93rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Hastings Apartments for A...	1901-2	1773 East 19th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Addition to Parish & Bing...	1902	5363 Hamilton Cleveland	Standing
Additions (side, entrance...	1902	340 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Fairfax Apartments	1902	1845-53 East 75th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Hotel St. Clair for Luciu...	1902	3523-37 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Valentine Hausmann Reside...	1902	3188 West 14th Street Cleveland	Standing
Cohn, Goodman and Co. Fac...	1902-3	1140 West 9th Street Cleveland	Demolished
The Towers Apartments	1902-3	6104-6 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Apartment house for Adolp...	1903	1464 East 90th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Warehouse and stable for ...	1903	2298 Ashland Road Cleveland	Standing

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Cleveland City Directories 1885 - 1902

Cleveland Town Topics 3.17.1888, p 9-10

Ohio Architect and Builder July 1903, p 9

Plain Dealer April 23, 1896

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