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Architect/Firm: Morris Gleichman
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Name: Morris Gleichman

Birth/Established: April 10, 1866 Death/Dissolved: December 15, 1931

Biography:

Morris Gleichmann was born in Austria-Hungary and came to the United States with his parents at the age of six. He was educated in the Cleveland public schools. He is listed as a draftsman in the 1884 Cleveland City Directory, eventually working for the architect Edward Ruprect. In 1889 he moved to Seattle, Washington Territory, where he formed the partnership Gleichmann, Lane and Mendel with former Clevelander Samuel Lane. They returned to Cleveland by 1892. Upon his return, Gleichmann formed a partnership with Charles S. Pennington, initially living with relatives at 77 Bridge Street. He later formed a partnership with W. R. Chestney. His building designs reflected progressive designs that were prevalent in the west as practiced by Bernard Maybeck and Greene and Greene. He was the architect and designer of a one-thousand foot high Tower of Babel for the Paris Exposition of 1900. He was a member of the Forest City Blue Lodge Masons and the Scottish Rite, and politically he was a Republican. He lived in Cleveland at 866 East 105th Street until 1914. He moved on to New York City where he practiced architecture until 1930. He died in 1931 and is buried in New York.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Commercial Building for e...	1893	2147-59 Ontario Cleveland	Demolished
West Cleveland Banking Ce...	1893	10101 Detroit Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Store and Apartments for ...	1894	1219 Scovill Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Brick, Stone and Steel Bu...	1895	Cleveland	Demolished
Clubhouse for Utopian Clu...	1895	3112 Woodland Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial Building for S...	1895	587 Broadway Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial-Residential Bu...	1895	1209-11 Scovill Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Factory for Joe Bendan	1895	726 Johnson Court Cleveland	Demolished
Fred Elsasser Residence	1895	1408-12 West 84th Street Cleveland	Standing
Horace Rossitter Residenc...	1895	1440 West 81st Street Cleveland	Standing
William Young Residence	1895	11114 Detroit Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
William Young Residence	1895	11114 Detroit Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Bernard Huebschman Reside...	1896	2364 East 43rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Cigar Box Factory for Ric...	1896	1607 Marion Cleveland	Demolished
Ignatz Koblitz Residence	1896	3601 Beyerle Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Residence for Joseph Kobl...	1897	2348 East 89th Street Cleveland	Demolished
Store and Tenement for Da...	1897	4417-23 Payne Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Fire Station #18	1898	3409 Orange Cleveland	Demolished
Parkwood School	1899	1171 Parkwood Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial building for D...	1899	4239-41 Lorain Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Commercial-Residential Bu...	1899	4239 Lorain Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Mayflower Flats	1899	3106 Woodland Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Dwelling for A. Kohn	1900	es Case near Woodland (Case sl 37) Cleveland	Demolished
Hazeldell School	1900	East 123rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Addition to J. L. Goodman...	1901	Broadway Cleveland	Demolished
Addition to Warehouse for...	1901	Cleveland	Demolished
L. & J. Wohl's Hungarian ...	1903	1280 West 3rd Street Cleveland	Standing
Fire Station #16	1904	Abbey and Gehring Cleveland	Demolished
Commercial Building for B...	1907	Lake & Salisbury Cleveland	Demolished
Majestic Theatre	1907	1775-83 West 25th Street Cleveland	Demolished
S. Kohn and Sons Commerci...	1907-8	10503 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Apartments	1909	1274 East 102nd Street Cleveland	Demolished
Store and Apartment Build...	1909	Superior and Payne Cleveland	Demolished
Walnut Avenue Business Bl...	1909	Cleveland	Demolished
Penn Square Motion Pictur...	1911	5409-15 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Keith's Prospect Theatre	1911	Cleveland	Demolished
Livestock Exchange Buildi...	1911	3200 West 65th Street Cleveland	Standing
Commercial-Residential Bu...	1914	10402 Wade Park Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Empire Theatre	Nd	Prospect Avenue (extensively altered) Cleveland	Demolished
Lafayette Theatre	Nd	Cleveland	Demolished

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Architecture and Building v. 23, no. 14, p.164

Cleveland and Its Germans, p145

Cleveland City Directories

Men of Ohio in 1900, p.70

Plain Dealer July 14, 1892

Progressive Men of Northern Ohio,p.216

Ward, James Architects in Practice in New York City 1900 ? 1940 for the Committee of Architectural Records

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