Bail

Architect/Firm: Frank Bail
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Name: Frank Wooster Bail

Birth/Established: July 3, 1891 Death/Dissolved: April 27, 1964

Biography:

Frank W. Bail was born in Wellsville, Ohio in 1891. He attended Glenville High School and graduated from East Tech High School. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from Columbia University in 1917. During World War I he served in the army as a lieutenant, where he was wounded. He spent the next two years in army hospitals. After the war, he settled in Cleveland where he was employed as assistant City architect. In 1922 he established the Frank W. Bail Company. He is best known as the architect of the Neo-Classical Fifth Church of Christian Science and the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court Building. He left Cleveland during the depression in the 1930's, moving to Fort Myers, Florida in 1937, where he established the firm of Bail, Horton & Associates.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Entrance and corridor for...	1924	Euclid Ave Cleveland	altered
Fifth Church of Christ, S...	1926	11625 Lake Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Ivanhoe Square Block and ...	1926	16341-7 Euclid Avenue East Cleveland	Standing
Union Trust Building	1926	11703 Lorain Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Commercial Building for T...	1927	Detroit and Beach Lakewood	Demolished
Lake Shore Hotel	1928	12506 Edgewater Drive Lakewood	Standing
Packard Dealership for Cl...	1928	9306 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Benevolent and Protective...	1929	1762 East 17th Street Cleveland	Standing
Cuyahoga County Juvenile ...	1930	2165 East 22nd Street Cleveland	Standing
Lorain County Tuberculosi...	1931	45999 North Ridge Road Amherst	Standing
Ohio Courts Building	1933	65 Front Street Columbus	Standing
Air Ferrying Command Base	1939	Homestead	Demolished
Florida State University ...	1947	Gainesville	Demolished
Navy Carrier Base	1950		Demolished
VA-NP Hospital	1951		Demolished

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AIA Directory

Biographical Sketch of Frank W. Bail 1891-1964 (nd)

Cleveland City Directories

Questionnaire for Architects' Roster and/or Register of Architects Qualified for Federal Public Works, 1946 (AIA Archives, Washington DC)

Representative Clevelanders

The Scope of a Profession: Bail, Horton & Associates Architects & Engineers, nd, American Institute of Architects Archives, Washington DC.

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